Breakfast at the Winjammer early and comfortable deck lounges reserved by 8 AM. We four are experts at this from our previous cruise through the Panama Canal. Sue and I picked out activities for the morning, a flat belly nutrition lecture by the Fitness Director and a destination talk on our first port, Oman. In the afternoon we attended another Spa lecture, this time on posture and good feet and an enrichment lecture, Dial Down the Complexity, by Jeffrey Davidson of Raleigh, NC
Tips:
Dial Down the Complexity
*optimal use of your time
1. Pay attention to priorities. Don't spread yourself too thin. Use a small business card to list priorities.
2. DO ONE THING AT A TIME. Fastest and easiest way. No multitasking!!! You get worse results. Singularity in everything.
3. Use a timer. You create a bargain with yourself. Set for 20 minutes. Reset.
4. Alternate between hard and easy tasks. Amazing results.
5. Manage the before-hand. Can enjoy better. Write thank youd ahead. Set up systems.
6. Condition your environment. Position items for use.
7. Take strategic pauses. More productive.
8. Find trail blazers, people who have already done what you need to do. (Be all do all-no.)
9. Acknowledge completions.
10. Dr. Osler-live in day tight compartments. Don't borrow time. *Don't download or copy too much. Acknowledge what you can handle. Focus IN. Let go of the rest
Every day more competes for your attention.We have the opportunity to carve out breathing space.
Sue and Ray hosted a balcony cocktail hour pre-dinner. We decided to do it every day. Sue managed getting two extra chairs for entertaining. It would be hard to go back to an interior room after having a balcony room.
Enjoying one of our Daily Happy Hours on the Hurley's balcony. Great idea.
This evening's dinner was with only one German couple, not sure what happened to the other two. We managed a few smiles and hellos, but our language deadlock continued. Oh, dear. This is the first time we have not had an enjoyable, compatible group on a cruise to make fast and lasting friends.
After dinner we went to the Captain's Champagne Welcoming Party in the Centrum followed by the evening's entertainment, England's Toni Warne in the 42nd Street Theatre. Enjoyable, strong performance of a medley of well known songs even had us singing along.
We ended the evening by having pizza at an open air cafe on an upper deck. We sat out on our balcony and looked at the stars, pleasant with a hardy sea breeze.
[There was a two hour stop in view of land this afternoon. Rumors heard from a nearby woman were unsettling. She thought there was trouble ahead plus technical problems. We never heard the whys. Terror related crossed my mind, just couldn't help it. The woman is a writer so maybe she delves in what-if scenarios like I do!]
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