Caught speeding in your pyjamas on your day off? Take it as a hint to slow down.

Has anyone else suffered the mortifying experience of being pulled over by the police for speeding, wearing pink ugh boots, purple pyjamas with pictures of a very smug cat all over them and the slogan, ‘have to have my way’?

When the officer asked if I had any reason to be speeding, I had to think about that for a moment...

I’d just dropped my daughters at school for band practice. I had an entire day stretching out in front of me, with no firm plans until school pick-up time. A whole day to myself. Six glorious, uninterrupted, self-indulgent hours of ‘me time’...

So, yes! This was an emergency! Didn’t he have kids?

Modern parenting is about as hectic as it gets. So hectic, in fact, that our default position is to be in a hurry - even when we’re not. How many times have you heard a mum say, despairingly, ‘I just don’t know where my time goes?’

Time marches on, like ‘sands through the hour-glass’, whether we ‘manage’ it or not. American author H. Jackson Brown observed that we have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

To which my indignant response could be: ‘none of these people were mums!’

To which H. Jackson Brown might well argue: ‘True - but what about Margaret Thatcher, Marie Curie, Anita Roddick and JK Rowling?’

To which there is no comeback...

 The October issue of eBliss (our free e-zine) has an article about finding an extra hour each day.  Register for eBliss on our website: http://www.worklifebliss.com.au/