From Pamela Ross, Findochty, Moray, UK
Amelia Tait’s article on the struggle to get motivated rang a bell with me (29 May, p 41). When I retired just over 11 years ago, I fully intended to fill my retirement with a whole series of projects. However, first of all I thought I would just relax a little, until several months in I found I had got absolutely nothing done – it seems that all I had done was slob about, watching too much TV, spending too much time doing “nothing much” on the computer.
So I sat down, wrote a list of what I wanted to achieve and forced myself to put together a schedule every week that included as many of those things as possible.
I also started keeping a diary, so I have to force myself to acknowledge on a daily basis whether or not I have managed to achieve my goals for the day – that is a kind of motivation in itself.
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