Daily Routines of Interesting People

I got inspired to take a look at how people spend their day by a blogger at Daily Routines where there are really interesting posts about how famous people organize their day: http://dailyroutines.typepad.com

It’s broken down into categories of people – architects, artists, filmmakers, musicians, philosophers, writers, and so forth. It also has categories for habit types of people, like nap takers, night owls, procrastinators, etc.

After reading about how Winston Churchill organized his day, I realized how so many professional people follow an agenda that’s built into their daily life that becomes routine.

For Churchill, he started off with the bath then headed out for a stroll around his garden and then took a whisky and soda to his study. By late afternoon he took a siesta which allowed him to work 1-1/2 days in every 24 hours.

The routine of how people start their day, how they progress throughout the afternoon hours, what their focal point of the day is, and how they wind down the day is quite interesting. I’d love to do a study on that, but another time.

Wouldn’t it be interesting for us to write down what we do each day from the time we wake up to the time we retire for the day? Maybe we can see where our time gets wasted too and attempt to adjust how we spend our time.