arup’s blog

We all have things to do; obligations and chores, as well as our plans and schedules. And in the midst of that we long to be spontaneous as we like to call it and do what we want when we want. Apart from being on holiday or living the life of a bohemian, I don’t really know of any situation where it would be possible to always do what you wanted exactly at that particular time. We all have timetables and schedules, at least most of us.

So how can we bridge that gap?

Part of my time management strategy and how I start my week. I used to do it on Tuesday mornings even though my week begins on a Sunday, but since I stopped teaching my Sunday evening class at Cannons in Battersea, Plan the Week is now where it should be, on a Sunday evening at […]

plan lunch and the day will fall into place
That’s my motto anyway. So how do I plan the day? It goes something like this.
The first thing I do is the morning pages. That’s a kind of stream of consciousness writing exercise that I’ve been doing for about 7 or 8 years now and it takes […]

Most mobile devices such as mobile phones, blackberries and pda’s have a reminder function. But do we use them? I have been using my reminder function on my pda for about a year now. And I don’t know how I managed to get by without it before. I have had them on previous mobile phones […]