I was watching a video the other day about managing time. Someone said that Elon Musk and Bill Gates block out their days in five-minute increments to organize themselves. Whether that is true or not I have no idea, but if it is and it works for them then that’s great.
It just isn’t how I want to live.
Some of my favourite memories are from times when I wasn’t doing anything.
When I lived in Mexico, there was a guy there who could play the flute. One night we were on the beach and the sound of the melodic notes still ring through my mind even now, so many years later. In Puerto Rico I met a professional trumpet player. I would hear him practicing when I was on the beach walking. It was something I looked forward to every day.
The best memories are the ones when something happened that wasn’t expected or planned.
Big-picture thinking seems like a good thing to do, but I’m not sure that it has been the most important factor in getting me from one place to the next. When I look back at how I thought my life would unfold, it never really did the way I thought it would.
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