purplerabbits

This week is a time for self questioning, so my questions for myself are this: how much stuff do other people do? how do they know how much stuff to do? and how do they manage it?

Let me break that down. Some people I see on LJ do a heck of a lot. They have kids, study, do a demanding job which they often have to commute to, maintain more than one relationship, go to meetings of various kinds and still find time to watch new movies, read and discourse knowledgeably on a variety of topics. At the other end of the scale I see myself. It takes me five minutes to get to work and yet I am often late, I barely do any housework, am often too lazy to cook properly and many evenings are spent on my own, in my flat, doing nothing I can particularly remember afterwards.

Actually I am not at the other end of the scale. At the other end of the scale is someone I love dearly who has no job and is happy to spend all day in an armchair watching geek shows on TV - something that would drive me mad in short order. But.

How do other people manage to fit stuff in their lives? What suffers? And why am I convinced that I'm too tired so much of the time? Is it that I'm sleeping too much, eating wrong and getting little or no exercise? Well, yes, that probably does have something to do with it. But what does a 'typical' busy day look like for busy people? Where do you save time? How much sleep do you get? How much housework gets done and who does it?

OK, this has turned from self questing to quizzing you lot, but I am still interested. I would like to be doing more in life, or at least feeling more purposeful, and I am genuinely unsure how, so any and all opinions are welcome...