Time Managment

Cut the family, church, kids and sports out. And listen when you're at work if you can. :P

Well, let's see....

but with work  -  full time
family  -  yep
church -  nope
kids  -  i don't think so
sports  -  just the treadmill
movies  -  yep
food  -  I think so
sleep -  only when necessary. 


My schedule is lighter than yours.....but I find LOTS of time for music.  Of course I can listen at work, maybe you can't.  But comparing notes, I think you just need to cut the kids and church....and you should be all set. 



Seriously, keep trying though.....absence makes the heart grow fonder, so every little window you get will be special.....treat it as sacred time.  It is.  Every moment that is normal, is special. 

I would say that about 85 % of my music listening takes place in the kitchen when I am cooking or cleaning for my family.  It's frustrating because all I have in the kitchen is a lousy boombox (compared to my stereo setup in my home office).  In any case, I have music on all of the time.   My daughters love to dance and rock out.   Sometimes I listen to what the kids want to hear, but other times it's Genesis or Ligeti.

SlickPhreak wrote:   Also, you didn't mention TV, but if you have one, my suggestion is to unplug it.

And turn off cell phones sometimes.  Delete your Facebook account.  Stop bathing. 

I have music in the background no matter what I do or where I am.The iPod also helps.

For me it's all about the headphones and mp3 player. I use a tiny little flash drive that i can stick into PC USB port and within seconds change up all its music. It's small and light enough for me to be able to take it on runs, to and from work, in fact to and from everywhere. So its all about fitting it in whilst travelling, cleaning, and any other laborious task that doesn't require you're ears. I now relish long train/car journeys coz it gives me chance to hear some cracking tunes

I think I could listen to all the records I bought since the last summer if:
1) I never watched TV;
2) I took a record player at work (I'm alone in a small office at the 5th level);
3) I lived alone without my brother playing his own records in the next room.

Reduce your sleeping time...

Semi-retired, so not a huge workload - I work as and when I like, usually 5-6 days a month.

Don't have an iPod, but I spend a lot of time working on the computer as I deal in rare stamps and play competition chess on the internet, so I listen to prog (and Planet Rock) then. My TVR has a 6 CD multichanger and cassette player, so I listen a lot whilst I'm driving (that's if the V8 monster under the bonnet lets me!).

I don't do twitter, bebo, facebook or any of that crap and I only watch telly a little. But if I want to listen seriously or to older prog, I break out the vinyl in my dedicated music room; 90% of my stuff is on vinyl, archived onto extremely high quality cassette (and recorded and played on my Pioneer CTS 310, it's still better than CD!).

But I haven't yet figured how to listen to prog whilst playing cricket; I'm working on it.

I am also a long time prog lover, recently turned 50, with work, church and family absorbing the major part of my time. I just try to find some spare moments when I can put some music on and I may be glad if I find two hours in a week for this. Now I want to explore some recent music as well, but I find myself still digesting some 70's stuff that I discovered not so long ago.