Post No. 2,685 - Recovering from a corporate life - Episode 25: going free range - NOT scheduling time

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Posts in this series are now listed at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/p/recovering-from-corporate-life.html. 

PS - expect these to be eddited fairly often. Writing these is part of the healing process, and will bring up more insights,etc.

One of the things I am currently unlearning is scheduling - NOT having time organised. 

After half a century of having to be highly organised, I was continuing that by, for instance, planning certain forms of exercise and activities in the morning - which was, at  a subconscious level, triggering my work mindset.

What I need to do is have time where I do nothing, time where I have not planned to do stuff, but can sit and, for instance, listen to the rain.

Where I do have to do things, I am shifting towards “I’ll get that done some time today”, rather than “I’ll do that at (around) 7am, or maybe within an hour or so of that”.

Since I’ve done that, I have found I now feel more retired. 

I’m still active - particularly mentally, but I am doing things when I get to them, and having more time to just be, and I am breaking that unconscious mental association with corporate life. 

 

PS - this is a variation on Episode 3 (learning to do nothing), in that I am not scheduling time to do nothing, in a sense - nor am I spontaneously (i.e., without scheduling) doing things: I am spontaneously NOT doing things ...

Blessed be.

I am writing this series in the hope that it will contribute to a better understanding - or at least better research into the effects of - the so-called developed world’s economic systems - which are based on the world-destroying amathia of perpetual growth, and patriarchal oligarchical capitalism expressed as often expressed corporatism and neoliberalism.

 

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