Life's a balance

Well don't we all know it but it's a whole other story to get the balance right.

I was going through my book shelf and picked up, 'Cultivate a cool career' by Ken Langdon today. This book contains 52 brilliant ideas for reaching the top and on flicking through the content pages, number 51 caught my attention - Life's a balance. Well what I read astounded me. It really made me think.

'There are 168 hours in the week of which you spend 56 in bed. this leaves 112 for living in.

OMG! I didn't wake up until 10.30 this morning and I'm an 8 hours a night girl. So I'm down to 102 this week already!!!

This idea encourages you to draw up how you spend your 112 hours using a nine box matrix. You leave some boxes for the areas you never get to but would like to so that you can evaluate how you spend your hours. You then create a new matrix and reduce the time in some areas so that you can start working on those areas you currently never get to. An interesting tool which I'd forgotten about.

From my matrix I realised that I could spend a little less time pottering around the house in the weekday mornings and fit in going to the gym before work instead. Now that's a plan to stick to. Tidying the bedroom and kitchen or body balance. Surely body balance will win everytime? Or will it be 30 minutes extra in bed?