Are you sitting comfortably?
Then let’s begin.
Start with that problem-solving seminar: skip it.
Be absent from your performance appraisal.
Stay home on Away Days.
Decommission those best practice bullet points.
Make yourself available,
24/7, to yourself.
It is time, time to begin.
To begin to walk away.
Away from the fantasy that you could be someone,
other than who you’ve become.
It is time, time to break out.
To slip the reach of bureaucracy’s dead hand.
To reject the happy-worker hypothesis.
To wander from the wavelength of received wisdom.
It is time, time to return.
To return to rhythm of your own pulse.
Until work falls out of sight at last
below the horizon.
Give up the mediocrity of cardigans: go on.
Keep that flat-pack furniture flat packed.
Convert the loft back to attic.
Abandon four wheels, find your feet.
Dig up the block-paved drive,
un-deck the patio, grow your own.
All these quality enhancements
benefit from our expert horizon scanning
and the latest in joined-up thinking.
You will see their financial reconciliation
embedded in your maintenance portfolio.
Sign here please.
vi.2015 / x.2018
A clearing out of dead wood. All the language used in the last stanza is 100% genuine.
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