Phil version 2.0

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well    ... but not necessarily,  right now ! The motivation for this post, was a realisation that, at 9.00am this morning, I had, already:   ·        completed a full workout with weights   ·        prepared my evening meal   ·        organised my, forthcoming, book club Zoom meeting   and   ·        started thinking about this post!   As I have frequently said, a full and worthwhile lifestyle is of great importance, to my mental health – but was it appropriate to have done all of this, before breakfast?   Almost certainly not – and I’ll come back to that in a moment.   But first:   Cognitive issues arising from my broken brain, include, so called  executive dysfunction . This means that I find planning and organisation to be rather difficult. For that reason, I f...

Project managers in hell ....   Not that it matters, in the least, but “PDUs” (their apostrophe is redundant!) is project management speak – “Professional Development Units”. Formally, learning to take personal responsibility, certainly has the scope to constitute a PDU.   If you think that this is, a typical digression – think again! A key theme of this post is project management. A spot of project manager jargon is therefore, not entirely off topic!   As you will have gathered, I’ve developed a  pretty active lifestyle . Most of its contents though, are activities, which are undertaken with some regularity – be they leisure pursuits, or otherwise.   I do however, like to have some  larger projects on the go, which have a defined and achievable objective. I have found that in many (most?) instances, my  substantial projects  (I’ll just call them “ project(s) ” from now on) do benefit from proper  management . By this, I mean steps such as th...

  Saturday was of course, May Day.   Perhaps needless to say, I didn’t partake of any maypole dancing!   In addition to a celebration of an imminent summer, it was also  International Workers’ Day  – and this prompted a few slightly regretful thoughts ...    With advance apologies, I’m afraid that this post isn’t as upbeat as many of the others. In truth though, I don’t feel too positive, all of the time, and I am keen to paint a balanced picture.   The dawning of International Workers’ Day brought (to some extent) into focus a “loss” that I have suffered, by virtue of a transformation to Phil v2.0 – namely the fact that I am no longer able to engage in any remunerated employment.   I know that I have said on many occasions that  losses  can often be re-cast as  opportunities .   This is most definitely true in the case of my “retirement”. No longer going out to work, has freed up vast amounts of time in which to engage in...