How do you build creativity into your life? All the way through school, many of us are taught to mainly use our Left Brain. As an ex-project manager, my left brain has been over-used all my working life. I can do spreadsheets and project plans in my sleep. Even today, having started blogging and got… Continue reading Build Creativity Into Your Life
Category: Hobbies
This is about the hobbies I have in retirement, from metal working through to family history research.
Manage that Data
Why bother with data management? There are two sides to this post. Firstly I am becoming very aware that my digital footprint is bigger than I want. The amount of data that is being collected on us, and our activities, has started to worry me. In addition to that, the amount of time I spend … Continue reading Manage that Data
Time Frugal
Time Frugal or to put it another way – Frugality of Time. What an interesting and thought provoking statement. I can’t take the credit for it. The term came from a Voluntary Simplicity post. We generally consider the word frugal to relate to being careful with money, and my 1982 version of the Oxford Concise… Continue reading Time Frugal
A Day Well Spent – Passing on my skills
What did you do with your weekend? I used mine to pass on some specialist skills. As I no longer work, weekends sort of lose their urgency, but I can still appreciate the attraction and enjoyment for those who are still working. For me, a Saturday is pretty much the same as a Tuesday, except… Continue reading A Day Well Spent – Passing on my skills
Retirement – The best 6 years of my life
On 28th October 2011, I said goodbye to the world of work. I had just turned 56. I couldn’t really believe I was walking away from a very well paid job, which I mostly enjoyed, but it had got very stressful (or maybe it was that I had ceased to manage the stress well!). My… Continue reading Retirement – The best 6 years of my life
Preserve Those Memories
We think our memories will last forever, but they don’t. We grow older and forget things, things which we thought would be with us forever. Someone’s voice, what they looked like, how they smiled. Time moves on, you forget the details of the event, or even the event itself! I woke up this morning, bright… Continue reading Preserve Those Memories