Managing My Free Time
October 4, 2009After being laid off from my job, I found I just had too much extra time on my hands, so this little blog is a guide to all of you, who may be in the same shoes as I am. I tried the method that my cat Baby uses, but I kept falling off. Seriously though, I have really tried to manage my time, and use what I have to my full potential. I guess what I consider as my full potential, is below most other peoples'. I consider just waking up alive and getting out of bed, pretty damn good for me. Lately I find myself doing odd things to keep that free time filled and keeping me
occupied.
occupied.
kill free time, manage it wisely?
I have come to that time in my life experience, that finds me unemployed. Surprise!I had worked in the printing trade for 23 years.Now I am as they say "shit out of luck". Myself and fellow employees, were kicked out. so to speak.The company we worked for, decided to move their Canadian operations to the USA.So they in their infinite wisdom, shut us down. This came as a complete surprise to all of us,and now we find ourselves in the "job market". So where does a 52 year old, down on his luck, under educated, broken down old man go to find a job? The answer is simple, HE DOESN'T! So this brings me to the subject at hand, how to really manage my free time.I have never been good at organizing, so time management, to me, is a little of the unknown, although after careful consideration,I came up with a small plan, and have tried to put it to use.Following are my ideas!
Finally I have found several ways to manage that free time.Some of them a little unorthodox.Yet they do what I say they do.
Now, I had planned to write this up as an E-book, and make big bucks from it, but for today, I am offering this article FREE OF CHARGE .Why you may ask? Well I know that times are tough, and there are many of you in the same boat as I am, so I thought this little offering may help to ease some of that pressure of the daily grind. So let's get down to the business at hand, and start with our first method at that time management system, I am giving away here free. My first method is..... DRINKING!
Wait, did he say drinking? Well yes I did. What you do is this, as soon as that EI cheque arrives in your mailbox, or bank account, you run to the nearest liquor store and buy the cheapest damn stuff your system can handle. Why cheapest stuff? Well you do want to stretch out that cheque, and you might want a few smokes to go along with that cheap liquor, besides, the cheap stuff will work just as well as any good stuff, to put you in that drunken stupor,to kill some time.Yup, that time will just fly by, and you won't even miss it.
Okay, now that we sobered up a bit, let's discuss my next method of killing that free time.This falls under the Get Rich Quick theme.
Sign up for every online internet get rich program you can find.Every single damn one.Not only will filling out all those forms kill precious time, but reading all those testimonials will keep you busy as well.....for hours! There is an other little perk to this time killing method,you will receive Email like you have never received before. Just hours and hours of reading and unsubscribe fun. Disable that pop up blocker of yours too! That's an experience in itself. I signed up for so many different online business',that I couldn't remember half of my passwords or log-in details at all. I finally had to enter all of them in a document, that I kept on my desktop for easy access. Believe me, when I tell you, just trying to organize that crap was very time consuming. I even dabbled into the affiliate marketing field .Affiliate marketing is where you promote someone elses products,and you collect a commission for every sale you generate.It saves you the hassle of storing and handling products.So you do not have any inventory, its great right? Well it hasn't been for me.I check my Clickbank account everyday, expecting to be that next internet wonder boy, and absoultely nadda!, Nothing, just an account with zeros.
So moving right along, let's discuss my least favourite method of killing that free time. You can forget about managing your time by this method, It is actually more of a waste of time at best. Although you can learn a few things along the way, so maybe not a complete waste after all!
Hanging out at the Mall. Why you may ask, would a 52 year old man hang out at the mall, unless he is a pervert or pedophile? Well, just for the excitement. You're best time for this, is when the kids' have gotten out of school,or if it's summer break, wait til late in the morning, they should be up by then. You will get to see some real funny stuff, all those cliques, just trying to climb that social ladder, all those tattooed kids, that when they grow older, those tattoos just are not going to look as good as they think they do now. Those body piercings, damn some of those must hurt, and I ain't talking about the ones we can see either! Yup, just hours of entertainment waiting to unfold right before your eyes, killing that free time, and it's better then going to a movie, Hell, it's LIVE ACTION!
This method of killing all that free time, came to my attention, completely by accident. It was not a fun way to kill time either.
My wife and I were sitting out enjoying the summer night, having a cocktail or two,the mosquitoes were buzzing,and so we went back inside, it was late, so off to bed.The next day, my right arm had swollen twice the size of my left. Well I didn't pay any attention, just scratched a lot. By that evening, I had developed blood poisoning, and you guessed it, off to the Hospital and that long wait in the waiting area. Talk about killing time. The hours did not fly by though.They dragged and dragged and dragged.............. and dragged. Finally I was in, with an IV stuck in my arm. After, I was sent along on my merry way, with the IV needle still stuck in my arm, because I had to go back the next evening for a follow up IV.Apparently my veins were not easy to access, so this was there little way of them saving time. So the next night, off I go to the hospital again, through the same waiting process as the evening before, and eventually getting my new IV. Thank God that they took to my system and cleared up the infection, I mean, I killed a lot of free time, but, if you can avoid this method, PLEASE DO!
Now we come to my most favourite method of killing time.That is just what I've done here. Writing a blog. I just love to sit and rant about some topic or another.I am not a professional, as my grammar and spelling probably have given me away already. I just love to write. I have never given much thought to writing for money, more for the pure enjoyment of creating something that is all mine.I have written several blogs, none really of note, (whoever reads this probably is thinking this hasn't much value either) but it is all mine, and I love it. I have posted blogs on thoughts.com as well as blogger.com I have read articles by Yaro Starak, I even subscribed to his newsletter, I even read a report by Alexis Dawes, (It was all Greek to me ). I never read these articles as a source of providing income to myself, but to try and improve my blogging skills. If I ever manage to earn any money from a blog post, I will be more surprised than anyone.
Finally I have found several ways to manage that free time.Some of them a little unorthodox.Yet they do what I say they do.
Now, I had planned to write this up as an E-book, and make big bucks from it, but for today, I am offering this article FREE OF CHARGE .Why you may ask? Well I know that times are tough, and there are many of you in the same boat as I am, so I thought this little offering may help to ease some of that pressure of the daily grind. So let's get down to the business at hand, and start with our first method at that time management system, I am giving away here free. My first method is..... DRINKING!
Wait, did he say drinking? Well yes I did. What you do is this, as soon as that EI cheque arrives in your mailbox, or bank account, you run to the nearest liquor store and buy the cheapest damn stuff your system can handle. Why cheapest stuff? Well you do want to stretch out that cheque, and you might want a few smokes to go along with that cheap liquor, besides, the cheap stuff will work just as well as any good stuff, to put you in that drunken stupor,to kill some time.Yup, that time will just fly by, and you won't even miss it.
Okay, now that we sobered up a bit, let's discuss my next method of killing that free time.This falls under the Get Rich Quick theme.
Sign up for every online internet get rich program you can find.Every single damn one.Not only will filling out all those forms kill precious time, but reading all those testimonials will keep you busy as well.....for hours! There is an other little perk to this time killing method,you will receive Email like you have never received before. Just hours and hours of reading and unsubscribe fun. Disable that pop up blocker of yours too! That's an experience in itself. I signed up for so many different online business',that I couldn't remember half of my passwords or log-in details at all. I finally had to enter all of them in a document, that I kept on my desktop for easy access. Believe me, when I tell you, just trying to organize that crap was very time consuming. I even dabbled into the affiliate marketing field .Affiliate marketing is where you promote someone elses products,and you collect a commission for every sale you generate.It saves you the hassle of storing and handling products.So you do not have any inventory, its great right? Well it hasn't been for me.I check my Clickbank account everyday, expecting to be that next internet wonder boy, and absoultely nadda!, Nothing, just an account with zeros.
So moving right along, let's discuss my least favourite method of killing that free time. You can forget about managing your time by this method, It is actually more of a waste of time at best. Although you can learn a few things along the way, so maybe not a complete waste after all!
Hanging out at the Mall. Why you may ask, would a 52 year old man hang out at the mall, unless he is a pervert or pedophile? Well, just for the excitement. You're best time for this, is when the kids' have gotten out of school,or if it's summer break, wait til late in the morning, they should be up by then. You will get to see some real funny stuff, all those cliques, just trying to climb that social ladder, all those tattooed kids, that when they grow older, those tattoos just are not going to look as good as they think they do now. Those body piercings, damn some of those must hurt, and I ain't talking about the ones we can see either! Yup, just hours of entertainment waiting to unfold right before your eyes, killing that free time, and it's better then going to a movie, Hell, it's LIVE ACTION!
This method of killing all that free time, came to my attention, completely by accident. It was not a fun way to kill time either.
My wife and I were sitting out enjoying the summer night, having a cocktail or two,the mosquitoes were buzzing,and so we went back inside, it was late, so off to bed.The next day, my right arm had swollen twice the size of my left. Well I didn't pay any attention, just scratched a lot. By that evening, I had developed blood poisoning, and you guessed it, off to the Hospital and that long wait in the waiting area. Talk about killing time. The hours did not fly by though.They dragged and dragged and dragged.............. and dragged. Finally I was in, with an IV stuck in my arm. After, I was sent along on my merry way, with the IV needle still stuck in my arm, because I had to go back the next evening for a follow up IV.Apparently my veins were not easy to access, so this was there little way of them saving time. So the next night, off I go to the hospital again, through the same waiting process as the evening before, and eventually getting my new IV. Thank God that they took to my system and cleared up the infection, I mean, I killed a lot of free time, but, if you can avoid this method, PLEASE DO!
Now we come to my most favourite method of killing time.That is just what I've done here. Writing a blog. I just love to sit and rant about some topic or another.I am not a professional, as my grammar and spelling probably have given me away already. I just love to write. I have never given much thought to writing for money, more for the pure enjoyment of creating something that is all mine.I have written several blogs, none really of note, (whoever reads this probably is thinking this hasn't much value either) but it is all mine, and I love it. I have posted blogs on thoughts.com as well as blogger.com I have read articles by Yaro Starak, I even subscribed to his newsletter, I even read a report by Alexis Dawes, (It was all Greek to me ). I never read these articles as a source of providing income to myself, but to try and improve my blogging skills. If I ever manage to earn any money from a blog post, I will be more surprised than anyone.
My Time Management at its Best.
Of all the ways that I've found to kill free time,my favourite is to create video slide shows. I started this completely by accident. I was surfing the web one night, looking for some Freeware, nothing in particular in mind, I was just bored. So i came across a program called DVD Slideshow Pro. After downloading it, I opened the file, read a little of the help file, and I was off and running. I had just recently received a Sony Cybershot camera for my birthday, so I had photos galore to choose from. My first attempts were good, but I had not got to the point of adding audio yet. After a few videos, I started to add audio, and I would upload these to my FaceBook account to share with friends and family. Well FaceBook took away my video privilages soon after. Apparently they thought I was infringing copyrites. I can only guess it was my background music. I still make slide shows though, and found other places to share them, but it really burnt my ass that FaceBook banned my videos.
I actually wrote a blog post about losing my video privaleges and left a poll question asking readers what they thought, unfortunatly no one took the time to take the poll.
I had planned to show a sample vid here, but everytime I copied and pasted the url YouTube said they didn't have it, so I must have been doing something wrong for the first fifty tries, anyhow, I finally found it, I hope you enjoy.
I actually wrote a blog post about losing my video privaleges and left a poll question asking readers what they thought, unfortunatly no one took the time to take the poll.
I had planned to show a sample vid here, but everytime I copied and pasted the url YouTube said they didn't have it, so I must have been doing something wrong for the first fifty tries, anyhow, I finally found it, I hope you enjoy.
I've been around for fifty summers,
Some were winners, and some
were bummers,
But I loved them all........
As far as I can remember, those words came from a song I heard back in the 80's. I forget who wrote or sang that song. Yet it pretty well summarizes my life so far. Time will pass, no matter what we do to slow it down,or try to speed it up, there is no power in the universe, that can manage time, other than time itself.
Posted by R.K.Oickle. Posted In : Humor
I have just ended up in my 50's, and have been happily married to the same wonderful lady for 30 years. We have two grown up sons,who have blessed us with 4 grandchildren. I spend most of my time now, blogging, and gardening.I am new at blogging, so I am hoping with a little more time, I will improve my skills.
We live a quiet life, and share our house with 2 cats, Baby and Tigger.
