11/03/2026
Morning,
A quick thought on something that quietly shapes most people’s lives without them really noticing it: how we use time.
This morning, woke up thinking about time. I got my list sorted (before opening phone).
Always important. Then I thought about priorities. Where am I spending my time? What's important, necessary and urgent.
I try to think about bottom line, food, bills, roof. Then trying to remain positive doing my tasks for my family and friends.
Then wider, how can I help everyone else? ❤️
How about you. How are you spending your day?
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Years ago, and later than I'd have liked I picked up a copy of the 7 Habits (Steven Covey). If you are into optimising, this is a great place to start. It's dense but worth it. I pushed through with my dyslexic brain, taking notes along the way. It was nothing short of a life changing experience.
So many times, in the journey I've thought I could have really done with a behaviour change coach, or just someone to tell me the basics. I learnt the hard way. By making mistakes. Maybe that's why now, I'm really interested in coaching and behaviour change.
Everyone talks about productivity, efficiency, optimisation and all the usual buzzwords. But strip it back and it’s much simpler than that. Your future self is largely determined by how you allocate your hours.
We all get the same 24.
The difference sits in what fills them.
A useful way of thinking about this comes from Stephen Covey’s Time Matrix, which breaks our daily activities into four boxes. It’s simple, but surprisingly powerful once you start looking at your own day through this lens.
The first box is Important and Urgent. This is crisis management territory. Deadlines, emergencies, problems that suddenly demand your attention. Life throws these at everyone. The issue is when too much of your week ends up here. Living permanently in this space creates stress and reactive decision making.
Then you have Important but Not Urgent. This is where the real progress happens.
Training. Planning. Learning. Looking after your health. Building relationships.
These things rarely shout for your attention. They quietly sit there waiting to be prioritised. Ignore them for long enough and they eventually move into the crisis box.
A neglected body becomes a health issue. Poor planning becomes a deadline panic. Unmaintained relationships become distance.
The third box is Urgent but Not Important. Interruptions live here. Other people’s priorities. Random meetings that don’t really move anything forward. Modern life is very good at pulling us into this space. Emails, notifications and requests can fill entire days if you allow them to.
Finally there’s Not Urgent and Not Important. Scrolling. Low value entertainment. General time leakage.
Everyone needs some downtime, of course. The issue isn’t rest. It’s unconscious time drift.
The interesting exercise is simply to track your time for a few days.
Write down what you’re doing. Write down what you’re thinking about.
You’ll quickly see patterns appear. Time leaks. Energy drains. Areas where attention is being spent without any real return.
Once you see it, it becomes much easier to adjust.
Most of the improvements people want in life actually sit inside that second box — the important but not urgent space.
Eat properly. Sleep deeply. Train consistently. Invest in relationships. Think clearly about the direction you're heading.
These things don’t usually feel urgent in the moment. But they quietly compound over months and years.
A strong body. A calm nervous system. A supportive network of people around you.
All of that is built in small, regular deposits of time.
And if you want a simple daily foundation, it’s hard to beat the basics:
Eat well. Sleep properly. Train your body. Use good tools and nutrition support when they genuinely help.
Nothing glamorous. Just consistent investment.
Small daily actions, repeated over long periods, tend to produce the outcomes most people assume come from something more complicated.
In reality, they usually come from simply spending more time in the right box.
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