If you don’t like them, I have others

I have a talent for chaos. To keep it manageable, I came up with 3 organizing principles:

• when returning home from work, do something useful, no matter how small
• go to bed no later than 23:00 h
• no smartphone in the bedroom

These are principles, not goals or dogmas.
What I like about principles is that they come in different severities. Mine are “guiding principles” of a very gentle kind.

Sometimes I regret this blog is in English, because in Dutch I really like the subtle difference between these two similar sentences:

• uit principe eet ik geen vlees
• in principe eet ik geen vlees

I’m an “in-principe” type of person.