It wasn't until my grandparents retired that I gave serious consideration to exactly what that meant. They were excommunicating full-time employment from their lives. The thing that accounted for most of the waking hours in their week would become a non-entity. How were they possibly going to fill their time?
Now I get it. When a job disappears, there seem to be a slew of other activities waiting in the wings to stop up the gaps. I just caught myself thinking, "I have a lot going on this week, it's going to fly by." Then I had to stop and see the humor in that.
Part of my agenda consists of paid projects, there is a healthy list of personal projects to tackle before Friday morning, there are people to see and a happy birthday call to make; all of this before getting back in my car on Friday for a return trip to the mitten state.
Here's my challenge. In the midst of all these projects and rendezvous, I need to try to stay on task with the new-ish habits I'm trying to ingrain - working out, Spanish and Codecademy. I'll consider this a dry run of the prioritizing that I'll need to put in place when I do return to the full-time work world. When that day comes, I will be strictly enforcing a "no personal priorities left behind" rule.
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