Actually I think I know

Actually I think I know where all my time goes - it goes on chores!

Just an example today.

It's a lovely day. I go outside into the back garden to sit with my coffee for a break from my work on the PC. On the way I notice there's enough white washing to do a load of laundry. Then I get outside and I see the cracks between the patio stones are besieged by weeds so I get out the little knife tool thing I use for that. By the time I've done that my coffee is cold!

I make myself a new cup and settle myself down on the garden chair - mmmh bliss - and then I look across at the other recliner and notice the cushions are getting a bit grubby. Should I wash them or buy new ones? So I spend a bit of time as soon as I come in finding out about patio cushions.

So I have done quite a lot as you see but it's nothing that I had especially planned. I seem to drift from chore to chore - it all gets done - laundry gets washed, gardens get weeded and patio cushions get bought - but I'm not following what I had planned for my day.

Gotta get better at that!

Where Does it All Go?

When I gave up my Dilbert cubicle four years ago I thought I would have loads of time.

What a shock to find out that doesn't seem to be the case and now I wonder how I ever had time to fit in any work at all!

It is so true that work expands to fill the time available (Parkinson's law?). No sooner have I had my morning coffee than it is time to pick up the kids from school, sweep the dust under the carpet and make dinner for poor hubbie (who is thankfully, despite the credit crunch, still doing a Dilbert)

So it was not the evil JOB taking up my time after all - it was ME (Yikes!) to blame.

Still I am happier now than I was then, less stressed (though poorer financially), things do get done and I no longer have to dread Mondays...more soon