Although I retired recently, I’ve hardly changed my lifestyle to reflect my new freedom.
During my working years, I built up a big poetry collection for my retirement, to read, enjoy, review and appreciate when I no longer had to brown nose. I’ve not touched the books.
Yet, over the last year or so, I’ve bought a good number of new books: at last year’s Sound Eye in Cork, when travelling to China and the US, and, most recently, at last week’s Marché de la Poésie in Paris.
I must dedicate time to read and review. This means I need to reduce the time spent on computer stuff, the stuff which was my profession, and has always been my hobby.
In other words, I need to organise my time: more time to the arts, including music and games, & less time to boolean bits. But I’m not dropping my computer activities, that would be silly.
I’ve given myself a schedule of what I should do for how long per day. I absolutely won’t keep to it, because I’m no clock–idiot—but that shouldn’t be a problem: the schedule’s made to remind me to change priorities, not to dictate exactly what to do where and when (which is impossible, anyway, because life).
You’ll know if the schedule has worked, because, if it has, more reviews will appear here.