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The Digital Takedown: The To-Do List
And the change that made the difference. I have a confession to make. I am a world-class, gold-medal, Hall-of-Fame procrastinator. There. I said it. And honestly, it feels better to have that out in the open. Now, you might think that someone who writes about organising, decluttering and generally getting your life together might have the whole productivity thing nailed. You would be wrong. Gloriously, spectacularly wrong. For years, I have used digital to-do lists. I’ve worked my way through most of them, testing, trialling, subscribing, cancelling, and eventually circling back to the ones I tried first. (Which is, in itself, a productivity lesson of sorts.) At work I use…
Minimalism Isn’t a Monastery: Your Version of Less Is Enough
Minimalism does not mean ten grey t-shirts, bare white walls, and a single artfully placed pebble on a windowsill. It means something far more useful, far more personal, and considerably more interesting than that. Let me make the case. Say…
Beyond the To-Do List: Finding Meaning on the Hamster Wheel
I’ve spent a lot of time chasing productivity. Crossing things off lists, clearing inboxes, staying focused — and honestly, I still value all of that. But somewhere along the way I started noticing that even my most productive days could…
The Metrics of a Life: Why Some Things Shouldn’t Add Up
I was staring at my smartwatch the other day—a device I bought a few years ago with “self-improvement” enthusiasm—and I realised I was annoyed. I hadn’t hit my 10,000 steps, and somehow, the lovely, meandering walk I’d just taken through…
Buying time: How to Buy Less and Do More
I’ve spent the better part of my life acting as a voluntary curator for a museum of “Someday.” My loft is a historical archive of university textbooks for a degree I finished in the nineties, and my kitchen drawers are…
The Digital Takedown: Reclaiming My Time from the Everything Machine
Sci-fi writers of the 1940s and 1950s predicted everything from living on the moon to robot maids. I’m not sure whether any of them imagined a portable device that would allow us to access the sum of human knowledge instantly,…
The Great Disappearing Act: When the Script Moves On Without You
There’s a strange thing that happens when you hand in your notice. You expect a fanfare, perhaps, or at least a mild sense of panic from your colleagues about how the wheels will stay on the bus when you’ve gone.…
The Person I Was vs. The Person I’m Becoming.
I am currently in the thick of it. And by “it,” I mean a lifetime of accumulated evidence that I am a person who might need a rusty nail at 3:00am on a Tuesday. As I get closer to retirement, I’ve realised…
The Great British Treasure Hunt (And How to Avoid It)
Most of us keep our money in the bank. It is sensible, digital, and tucked away behind a PIN we can never quite remember. But many of us also have those little pockets of cash or precious items hidden away…
