How Are You Coping With Lockdown

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Kia Ora, from New Zealand, friends and colleagues.

It has been interesting to watch the stories, comments and discussion about the various lockdown, regimes around the WA world and how people are coping with it all.

As a bit of a Bloggy writing exercise I thought that I would attempt a 'Day in the Life' story.

I hope that it is useful and entertaining in some way to someone. It contains my routine both around my day job and my WA activity.

Enjoy.......

7:00 am

Rise, put the kettle on make coffee for me and a tea for my wife, an essential worker in Health Care.

Go to the 'mancave' my home office and logon on to my steampunk converted PC (yup I did that!) and start clearing my WA notifications from the night before. if I have time fire away a few comments on WA posts that take my eye. As a matter of course I always go to the Blogs of those who have commented on mine and leave comments on their latest post if I have not already done so.

8:00 am

Virtual breakfast with my work colleagues. 5-6 of us meet regularly for a business breakfast when things are normal at 7:30 each morning after our PT session at our gym. We have replaced that with virtual breakfast using the Zoom application. This is where we get situational awareness on each other's portfolios and where we discuss blockers and mutual assistance and interests.

8:30 - 12:00 pm

The 'meat' of the morning, with a range of voice and video conferencing meetings. Some are part of a regular (lockdown) rescheduled cadence and others Are 'pop up' depending on the requirements and business of the day. One of my many daughters will bring me coffee and water throughout the morning. I have two 3 year University students now studying virtually at home and a 10 soon to be 11 year old currently on advanced school term break but soon to be on virtual home schooling.

12:00 - 1:00 pm

This is my time and I will spend half an hour, carrying on with WA stuff, including putting my Blog and intended website article structures together (I have them planned a week in advance over the weekend) ready for writing them up at the end of the day. The other half hour is a spin round the golf course, with the Fox Terrier which is right next to my house.

1:00 - 4:15 pm

Second Part of the working day, doing correspondence meeting my portfolio leaders (my direct reports) and talking and making 1:1 phone calls as necessary.

4:15 - 5:00pm

Daily portfolio executives meeting (virtual obviously) Situational awareness meeting reporting progress and setting expectations and tasks for the next day and coming weeks and months.

5:00pm

Virtual Pub Opens and the same group that met for breakfast grab a beer and sit around and talk about work, families, politics, the economy and anything else that we can fit into 45 minutes.

6:00 - 6:30

Prepare for the family activity. So the 10-year old has a schedule worked out for the month of lockdown where we have a themed evening activity and we all receive a mark which goes into a chart. This can be dress as your idol or play a quiz, or a board game or design a costume drawn in your own hand. She feels part of the family planning activity and we all have great fun.

6:30 - 8:00

Crisis or no crisis we are a family that sits around the meal table in the evening and we share stories and advice and find out how each other is feeling or we play a board game together or perhaps watch a TV programme that we all like.

8:00 till late

Write and publish, if ready, a Blog article for one of my 3 websites (research already done on the previous weekend) then if I have one, I publish a Blog for WA and then until I am too tired to stay awake any longer do WA help, comments and training tutorials.

Generally finish by midnight, go to sleep, wake up and do it again

Weekends

While the crisis is on, I chair a cut down coordination meeting, for 15 minutes on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 9am just to monitor 'the shop' and make sure that people are all okay.

Otherwise the weekend is taken up by family and Blogging or training depending on what is needed against my targets and goals. I do my Blog planning preparation and research during this time.

What Do You Do

As you can see there is nothing complicated or magical about it but I would be interested and fascinated to know how are people are running their days and weeks in lockdown.

Thanks for reading please do make a comment and let's see if there is anything for us to learn from each other.

From New Zealand good evening friends and colleagues.

KIA KOA

KIA KAHA

Hamish🧐

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Thanks for sharing, sir. You’re obviously very organised and efficient. I wish I could do the same. I am so way behind my goal in terms of producing content..

Anyway, my weekday starts at 07:00.. prepare for work. I stop by my favourite coffee shop for takeaway bagel and a cup of coffee. Arrive office at around 08:30 ish.. work starts at 09:00.

09:00 - 18:00
I’m a systems designer (lighting industry) so my day usually involves either of these; planning, project discussion, a bit of marketing, meetings with client, troubleshooting, equipment set-ups, programming, site visits and site work, endless conference calls.. especially lately.

I travel extensively to our offices in Asia so I am not in Hong Kong (our head office location and where I am currently residing) 70 percent of the time, except of course the last few weeks due to travel restrictions.

19:00 - 22:00
Since I joined WA, which was very recently, I am at it as soon as I get home for the training.

I couldn’t get past through level 2 though as I am struggling to finish my second content! I am not a writer so it’s really hard to achieve my goal no matter how I try to be realistic about it.

There you go.

Your post inspire me not to give up so easily!

Stay safe.

I was a freelance content writer before becoming a AM Blogger and I have training in creative writing so writing comes easy to me.

If you need some mentoring/coaching with writing I am happy to see what I might do to help you, if you are interested just pm me.

I get a buzz out of giving back, in the meantime stay safe and well...oh and thanks for the glimpse into your day 🧐

Thank you kindly and I will

Be sure to let me know how I can help, have a great weekend🧐

I have a regular rhythm for my weeks. Mondays I do the accounting for our business plus any other money-related tasks. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are open for whatever work I'm doing. Right now that is getting my office organized so when I start my memoir about being the daughter of a science fiction writer (Cordwainer Smith) I will have my old letters and files all together. Fridays are for whatever worky odds and ends pop up. Saturday is when I do any housework. Sunday I go to my Episcopal church, right now on Zoom, and relax or read in the afternoons.

Normally there would be meals with friends during the week but now those are phone calls.

Evenings, free choice, often watching a Netflix show with my husband.

We are all so different Rosana and yet the same. I am nw going to look up and research you Father and what a coincidence, I am a Scottish Episcopalian. I was once an Acolyte, at the smallest Anglican Cathedral in the world. The Cathedral of Argyll and the Isles sits in a beautiful location, in a tiny village called Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae, in the Firth of the River Clyde, on the West Coast of Scotland.

Thanks for the comment, stay safe and well and enjoy your weekend🧐

Wow, apparently lockdown has got nothing on you Hamish!. You're into a nice rhythm there. Since this corona thing I have been experimenting with various ways of making my day useful. But reading, making sure I keep up to date with my school assignments as I am studying, and working on the WA training - I'm just a week old here :-) - with some family time, fills my day!

Great to meet you here on my Blog page and I thank you so much for the comment, it is appreciated. Howw is the lockdown for you where you are ? 🧐

Hi Hamish. I admire your discipline.
My day. It is just my wife and I and our 14 year old groodle. I work from home and my wife still works 4 days a week.
I get up every day at 4.00 and spend 2 to 2.5 hours on my affirmations, studying to understand the mind and all its trappings and meditation. It is now like my security blanket. It is the best part of the day for me. I then make the bed, get breakfast and push my wife out.
I have another e commerce business that is starting and I do all the cooking. My day until my wife gets home is time on both businesses, preparing dinner and an hour to hour and a half walk in no particular order.
When wifey gets home we have a glass, sometimes two of wine, have dinner, might watch a movie and I finish off with some WA work. Then bed about 9.30/10.00.
Hamish, there you have it.
Have a great day
Stephen.

You have your own structure to that works for you, with some key way points during the day, we are all different after all, thanks for sharing Stephen appreciated 🧐

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