As many readers know, I had a total hip replacement aka total hip arthroplasty a week ago. This procedure was not part of the retirement plan and forced many other plans to be revised and postponed. Leading up to this surgery I had many worries, most of which proved ill founded. Up to this point […]
Month: November 2010
Preparation for major surgery
You can prepare for some things in life. Some things you must accept as life unfolds. In the world of postworksavvy, joint replacement was not part of the plan. I’ve spent the past few days preparing for the hip replacement surgery that I wrote about in an earlier post. There has been the busy work […]
Balancing priorities — postwork strategies needed
Who would have thought that someone who is retired would be struggling to balance priorities? While I was in career mode the challenge to find work/life balance was constant and I always felt that I was losing. My frenetic lifestyle gave an adrenalin high but was slowly draining my life energy and sucking away the […]
Time — your enemy? your friend?
When I went to the office every day for ‘work’, I usually felt a constant ‘time-stress’. Every activity was logged in my mind according to the amount of time it required. I had a mental balance sheet that ran continuously throughout the day and logged small things and bigger things — getting a cup of […]
