Monday 17 August 2020

An Australian Idyll - Part Two

You may not necessarily consider an idyll to involve project management.  Yet your life itself can be managed as a project.  After all, it has had a beginning, a middle and an end.

You may have some knowledge of where and when your life began but probably very little awareness of that beginning in terms of memories to recall.

You are now at the stage of taking over the management of that project from whoever has been managing it up to this time.  It is up to you to make an assessment of how the project needs to be adjusted.  It is also up to you to reassess what the project now aims to achieve.

What do you already know about project management?

Do you already consider your life to be a project?

Do you consider happiness to be a long-term goal or part of your daily practice, or both?

What have been your prior experiences of project teams, in any context?

What have been your experiences of individual and collective projects?

What would be your ideal idyll and where would it take place, both physically and digitally?

What would be the social and cultural features of your ideal idyll?

What would be the technological and design features?

What would be the financial features?

What would be the environmental features?

What would be the permanent features?

What would be the temporary features?

Who and what would be permanently excluded?

Who and what would be permanently included?

Who and what will be temporarily included, and for how long?

How would you prefer to explain your reasoning in relation your answers?

You may associate an idyll with a journey more than a destination.

What would be truly idyllic for you at this stage of your life, and why?

Do you usually consider the idyllic in terms of the temporary or the permanent?

Are you more interested in seeking an idyllic holiday than an idyllic life?

Perhaps you associate the idyllic with the hedonistic.  Perhaps you think of an idyll as an escape from duties and responsibilities rather than a justified response to problems.

What do you know about the poetic origins of idylls?

What is your acquaintance with the etymology of idyll?