OK, help me think about this. I have spent a year recovering from burn-out. During the first period, I frankly do not know how long it was, I could not play in any way whatsoever. Given that game-playing has always been important to me, this was a sign of poor mental health. As I started [...]
Yesterday I hung up a flat-screen television and afterwards lay on the sofa with youngest son on my chest, my head in middle son’s lap and my legs on oldest son’s lap. We watched Ben-10 together. And that is what it is all about. Yesterday I walked the dog and took a moment to look [...]
This is hard to write. A week ago my brother died. He had been ill for a number of weeks with a rapid form of Leukemia and went quietly in his sleep. There are no words for how I feel, that is something that bulks too large for my skills to encompass, but I can [...]
There is a sad misconception that D&D is a refuge for the socially inept. I would say that is probably born of the fact that, as an intensely socially educative game, it enables people who would otherwise fall out of contact to find a framework. You notice them when they are playing D&D when they [...]
Sometimes what I need to say seems to obvious. One of the things I am still learning is to say it anyway. I am a deeply fortunate person. I have a family I love, a cheerful disposition and there are moments in my day which are eternal, where I am breathless with the glory of [...]
There is something that I want to say, somewhat out of the ordinary for this blog, please be patient while I find a way to say it. I am a scarily cheerful person almost all of the time, particularly on diamond-bright blue-skied winter days like today. Things are actually pretty grim in the Netherlands, where [...]
I have been running a Dungeon and Dragons 3.5 game for my 10-year old son and four of his friends for the last few months. Though they are all geek-kids with video-game experience and lively imaginations, it is, on occasion, very challenging. Sphere: Related Content
Having read that Peter Drukker was a major influence for aspects of GTD and having come across more Drukker-isms in the work of Steven Covey I decided a while ago to read “The Effective Executive” for myself. It is now forty years old and not in the least bit out of date. His examples refer [...]
I have a confession to make…. Recently I let my home inbox pile up for more than three weeks. It got bigger and scruffier all the time and started lowering at me while I tried to do other things. Of course something like that has a double whammy for me. I have all the guilt about [...]
You must have noticed: I learn a lot of GTD from doing things with my kids. I find children a good model: the main difference between kids and adults being that grown-ups are way better at inventing some specious reason for the daft things they are doing… Sphere: Related Content
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