I like to think of myself as a fairly hardworking, motivated person. However I recently met someone who regularly gets up at 5am, works a 12 hour day and then (somehow) works out in the evening. They also ran 18km before 10am last Saturday. You know what I was doing at 10am on Saturday? SLEEPING!

Madness nearly overcame me as I started thinking, maybe I should be getting up earlier?

But when I really thought about it, I knew that that is never going to happen. I’m simply not a morning person, I do most of my work in the late evening. Everyone has different work patterns and is more productive at different points during the day. So I’m going to use this person as motivation for me to get more stuff done in my own work schedule and not get disheartened because whilst they’re out blitzing 18km, I’m sound asleep.

Plus, I’d never be able to get up at 5am.

Have a good week!

I’ve been a scribbler for as long as I can remember, in fact I’m not sure that I write everything down because I have a bad memory or if I have a bad memory because I write everything down.

About a year ago I stopped using notepads and tried to go completely digital. I bought a premium Evernote subscription and started using Wunderlist for reminders. I have to say that it was a difficult transition for me, I’m so used to jotting things down constantly that it was difficult to start typing away on my tablet or phone. I found that I’d have to force myself to do it as it just didn’t feel as natural but slowly it became easier.

Now a year later, my Evernote account is a hugely valuable resource. One of the best tools for it is the chrome extension that allows you to clip web pages. Combine those notes with the ones that I entered in manually from my many notebooks and I honestly don’t know what I’d do without it.

That being said, I have found I’ve started taking rough notes back on a notepad (which then I copy into Evernote if I find I need them) so when a colleague showed me this Kickstarter Project I immediately backed it. I’ve never backed anything on Kickstarter before so I really don’t know what to expect. Hopefully it’ll turn up but until then I’m back scribbling away on a traditional pad of paper.

Have a good week.