My new morning routine, free wi-fi and good coffee

There's an awesome coffee shop a few yards from the Hotwire office called Coffee @ Goswell. It does the best coffee, has massive shabby sofas, and free wi-fi. I go in there most days, but rarely use the wi-fi or work there.

And here's something altogether unrelated. Colleagues past and present (Rachel H in particular) know I'm a bit funny when it comes to GTD. I have a lot of the Lifehacker / GTD type books around helping me to get more out of my day. With a nasty long commute and a family to manage too, I kind of need all that.

So I've decided to mix the coffee and gtd together and start a new regime, starting tomorrow morning. I'm going to catch the early train into London, and get to Coffee @ Goswell for 8am to get my (obligatory) coffee. Then instead of heading to my desk over the road, I'll work on the free wi-fi 'til 9am. Hopefully I can start the day pretty chilled out and still get through an hours worth of work before 9am (and at that time of the morning it's more like 2hrs of work).

We do flexi-time at Hotwire anyway so not like I have to get into the office before 10am if I don't need to. See how this works anyway. I'll be setting my desk phone on fwd to mobile, email and messenger on, and see how coffee shop working suits me for part of the day at least.

Comments

[Robbie Clutton]

I know that coffee shop, I went to university at City 2 minutes down the road.

[Drew B]

Hi Robbie. My housemate did too, I lived on Old St for a while in my student days. Feel like Goswell Rd has been a London epicentre for me over the years.

You remember The Leopard pub? Got flattened a fews years back to make way for Clerkenwell appartments.

[Chris Green]

Hi Drew

I know the coffee shop in question - tis a very nice one and very good coffee iirc.

Chris

[Robbie Clutton]

can't say I remember that one, we used to go to the Bull a lot, back when it had Becks on tap before it got all snazzy. Failing that we'd head into Old Street. I love that area, would like to move back some time.

[Jonathan Hopkins]

good luck drew. perhaps that's where we can meet? are you extending to doing meetings there too?