I’ve been walking to work.  As I work from home this might seem as a bit daft.  I did a circular walk and was back home in 15 minutes.  I am experimenting to see if adding structure to my day can make me more effective.  When working from home its easy for work to spread into life time, even though I always expect the opposite.  So I sometimes can work until late, feel I haven’t achieved any work things, and then also have no time for myself.

How can you experiment with structure in your life?  Do you need more or less?  Do you need structure applied by yourself or imposed by someone outside: your boss, the time-clock or your children?  How would it be to not wear a watch all day?  What if you divided the day into half hour chunks and allocated activities to each one?  What would happen if you spent an hour doing things for 10 minutes only?  How is your structure different when you are working and not working?  Could you transfer one structure to the other?  What would it be like if you got up in the morning or left the house with no plan and just did what took your fancy?

Play with structure and see how your energy changes.  I’m really looking forward to walking home tonight. This morning I saw a red squirrel on my walk!