Tips on how to organise your busy life

January is a good time to reassess how you organise your life. Rita de Brun tells us how an organised mind can help us to think straight in the age of information overload.

We’ve all been there. We wake with the feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day, then sleep-walk to the shower to find there’s no shampoo.

In the race to wake the slumbering kids, we trip over the dog, whose weary gaze reflects our frazzled state of mind.