Why is it that there never seems to be enough time to do everything that needs to be done? Time seems to slip by faster and my "in-tray" continually grows and it's tempting to let the weekends become a time where I catch up on all of the work that I didn't get done during the week. It's crazy but it's a fun kind of crazy!

This week I decided the solve the chaos and sort all of the bits of paper, emails and e-notes into a single spot as my "to do list". It sounded ambitious, genuinely altruistic but I was never going to surrender to the weight of "stuff" that needed to be done. I decided to fight my in-tray to my last dying breath! Maybe that's a little over the top but it was an inspiring speech anyway.

So energised with a zeal to overcome I created the mother of all "to do" lists. Categorised, dated and even colour coded each item and five pages later I was finished. Hang on here.....five pages! Yep, five pages.....

It's said that if you want something done then give to a busy person but in this case I think that busy is a little overkill. I began to reflect upon my typical day that starts at 8am with calls to the USA until around midday. I then have meetings with the Australian ParkLogic team and actually get some work done myself until around 6:30pm. From 6:30pm until 9pm I spend time with my wife and family at the end of which Europe is at work and I finish with them until around 2am. I love Australia, it's a fantastic country but the time zones really suck!

For those of you who have rapidly calculated my hours of sleep being around 5-6 hours each night you'd be right. My grandfather used to say that "sleep is an insidious disease." I must admit it that I completely agree with him (although my wife Roselyn would have a few words to say to refute this position).

So do I work hard? No, not really. I actually don't regard most of what I do as work but rather as something that I really enjoy doing. I have the privilege of working with really smart people all around the world and combining that with global cutting edge technology is exhilarating. Since I enjoy doing what I do then I don't really call it work, I call it fun!

I have one golden rule, never work on the weekend unless it's a crisis and since it's Saturday I'm off to have fun with the family. See ya!

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