Routine is the enemy of time

Or are we just not utilising its power

For many years I saw routine as a negative. I watched adults go around the world following the same routine every day, every week: Wake up, coffee and breakfast, sit in morning traffic, work from 9–5, sit in afternoon traffic, make dinner, watch TV, go to bed. I observed this and wanted no part of it — I wanted spontaneity, I wanted to be able to say yes to things when…