Why Time Management is important when you’re old……..



Sometimes people ask me what I do all day.  They don’t see me in action so, in their mind’s eye, I am just sitting around doing nothing.



 Well, for me anyway, this couldn’t be further from the truth.  When I was in business, years ago, I had to be self motivated, as I worked alone most of the time.  And now that I am in my eighties , you might wonder when ‘older’ became ‘very old’.  I certainly do.



 And what does Time Management mean to some of us oldies?   You have a reason to get out of bed every morning, after you have loosely planned the first six hours or so of your day. After a lifetime of having to be somewhere on time or do something every day, having no time structure is what really does you in when you retire.  You are floating around at a loose end with the prospect looming of having nothing to do all day, so I make  the hours from nine to twelve my “mental workout time”.  I work on the computer, send some emails, do some writing, play Lumosity brain games, have numerous cups of tea and make a few phone calls.  Then its lunch, and nap time.  After I wake up, I am not much good for anything.

And so I drift off into the "Dead Dog Afternoon”syndrome.  I can’t motivate myself to do anything. Oh well, I am working on it.