Another Way

I saw the word “schedule” this morning and it had me thinking how different mine is now days to what it was.  I realize that my experience is  different to many but there is no doubt it has changed.
I would work from sunup to sundown and then into the night - no problem.  Whether it was combining my paid employment with activities I wanted to do around the house, with music, preparing for events that I often was responsible for organizing.  I was into it and made it happen.
These days I still get things done but I know my best times and utilize that.  For example yesterday I knew I had to organize some things.  I set aside the morning to do it.  I am a morning person and am at my best then.  So what I had to do I set aside the morning to do as I did not know what I would be like in the arvo.  Experience has taught me though to strike while the iron is hot.
It’s funny but I do remember at work there would be a period in the early afternoon where I would feel drowsy.  I know that was choice time.  In many ways there was only one choice that was any good for me.  Shake it off and push through.  That is what I consistently did.  I realized that when I pushed through inevitably I would get over the tiredness and while not at peak performance 70% or so was a decent “make ground” amount.
Since retiring I often choose to rest when I get weary.  I do not need to, but I am genuinely surprised that I do actually sleep.  Evenings are productive but to a lessor amount to what they were once.
When I have activities on, I am ok with them but when I have a choice the choice is often to rest.
I feel I have needed to accept the way things are and make the most of the way it is.  I am not what I was, but that sure does not make me useless.  I get things done and it reinforces to me the need for each other.  Maybe two are needed where one only was, but it is the result to me that counts.  The way achieving that result happens may be different, but it still happens.