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From time to time I hear people saying that they don't have the time to do one thing or another. They don't have the time. How come you haven't got the time when others do? Maybe it's not the time that there's something wrong with, rather the use of the time.

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Stress is per definition not the amount of things you have to do; it's the amount of things you have to do and don't get done. To avoid this phenomenon have I started doing certain things which help me keep track of what I need to do and when it should be done by. Postponing chores and tasks is not allowed as they will get "stuck" somewhere in my schedule and not dealt with. On the other hand I always add a couple of things to my daily planner that can be postponed or missed out on. So if one event overshoots another or take more time than initially thought I can postpone the rather trivial event. It works like a buffer.

Sometimes this is not enough, I can't fly around look in my planner all day. I don't carry it with my in the afternoons after all hence I needed another solution to the tasks scheduled for the afternoon. So one day when I was sitting in the physics lab at school watching my physics teacher write equations it came to me. What I needed was a system to which it was fast to add an event; update; erase. That it was digital was not crucial, but would be fine though. Using my phone was out of the question - it's too slow.

The solution: I nicked one of my physics teacher's white board marker's - the plan was to write on my bathroom mirror and the shower cabinet. So that every time something new came up I'd just write it up on the mirror so that I would see it next time I went to the bathroom.

This analogue system is without Bluetooth, WLan or IR and can not be synchronized with your calendar program on your computer nor your phone. But you know what? It works, mate!