A Fresh Start

The world of work seems to parallel the school year. After summer vacations are over people seem more focused. It’s a pervasive feeling in the workplace. Fun time is over; lets get serious about business again. We need to be prepared for the additional workload, late hours, projects and assignments that need to be completed prior to the winter holidays.  At this juncture of my life, being out of the work force, it seems odd to still have the feeling that I must get down to business. How am I going to channel my September feelings? The beginning of the school year always gives me a sense of renewal. It’s the season of new beginnings. A time to wipe the slate clean and start again.  Is it just me or does everyone feel like that when September rolls around each year? I have a burning desire to run out and buy spiral notebooks, pens and colored pencils. I want packages of notebook paper and colored folders. I look at all the ads for school supplies in the newspapers and wish I needed them because if I did then it would mean that I too could make a fresh start. Every September promises hopes and dreams can come true.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if life was that simple?

Work is Serious

The world of work seems to parallel the school year. After summer vacations are over people seem more focused. It’s a pervasive feeling in the workplace. Fun time is over; lets get serious about business again. We need to be prepared for the additional workload, late hours, projects and assignments that need to be completed prior to the winter holidays.  At this juncture of my life, being out of the work force, it seems odd to still have the feeling that I must get down to business. How am I going to channel my September feelings?

More Time to Read When I Want To

If you have been following my blog you know that I have been very inconsistent about follow through since I stopped working. Just getting anything of consequence accomplished takes a lot of effort. Productivity and time management are gone.  I’m more interested in lying on the couch with a good book than doing anything that remotely seems like work. I have too many work years to make up for. While working, reading for pleasure was done in thirty-minute increments. Now it’s my prerogative to read for as long as I want. Maybe that is the fresh start for me this September. I must come to terms with where I am in my life, stop questioning why I became too ill to continue in my job, and learn to relax and enjoy my newly found freedom.  Anyone want to go to Target and buy some glue sticks?

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