OK so last night I was updating my Google calendar, when I took a few minutes to take a break and reflect on viewing my calendar. I come across the fact that over the past three months my schedule has become extremely busy. I often find myself out of time to complete the little things that I want to get done. Just reflecting on this it got me thinking about how I could improve my daily productivity? Perhaps longer hours awake might be the key? (Hmm.. maybe!)

After me sitting down and doing some number crunching I figured out that 8760 hours of my time was available per year (my goodness that is a lot). Given that I sleep the recommended 8 hours a day for 365 days, only 5840 hours are spent working. Perceptibly that equates me working 66.6% of the time.

…But how much of even those working hours are truly being spent working?

Most probably not as many as I wish too. I think that physically and mentally I can afford to stay awake for another extra two hours. If these two hours were added to the start of my day I am sure it would bring out positive results. After all, I end up finding myself often waking up with crazy business ideas in the early hours of the day.

In the Easter holidays I tried to cram in as much work experience as I could possibly get done within two weeks. This summer I’ve managed to find myself more work experience at a company called, Lycos UK (blog post coming up soon).

This unexpected placement has actually painted right over some superior events I wanted to attend that were taking place in London. As I mentioned before this all comes back to the limited time I have on my hands. However, with some intellectual planning and some negotiating (with friends) I may be able to attend the events too (which would be absolutely fantastic).

Meanwhile you can view my schedule over on the new Calendar page which will be updated regularly and informative. Also on the same page you can find and follow me on my Twitter feeds. Every few hours I update the feed with information on where I am and what I’m doing.