As for priorities, just getting through the day is an achievement .....

Dont forget at our age we can please ourselves,just dont get in a rut .

Hi Sandra
My days don't always go as planned. I do make lists and love giving a tick to each task. I also make lists of projects (small and large) and saunter through them. Making time to relax is also good as is taking short breaks away.

I don't live on my own now but did for long periods in the past - I made lists too!

I think it just seems to be the thing to do and you don't need prompting!

You've come up against what a lot of people find sandra - the list always gets longer, but that's good 'cos it means you've got stability and order basically set-out in your mind but maybe haven't quite mastered the whole thing!

I used to set out to clean the whole house for example then find I'd spent all day experimenting with a bit of cooking or reading or pottering about in the garden.

Doesn't matter that much really and I never really got to the point where I was actually lonely either.

That's the secret and it seems to mystify people that you just don't get lonely except on what I'd call special occasions, like Christmas or your birthday.

Hope that helps a bit from a male perspective - the same I should imagine. stevmk2

Such an easy question; American psychologist Abraham Maslow put forward a theory of psychological health, the Hierarchy of Needs in in the 1940s and that still applies though it has to be modified for the 21st Century

There's a line from a song by Canadian songwriter /musician, Murray McLauchlan,

"alone but never lonely, that's how I long to be" pretty much says it.

Hi... we live in a brilliant age and we've got so much to be grateful for...love life.... love my garden ..and everything we need..is readilly available to us..Because I live alone with no pets...sometimes get a bit confused where my priorities lie....but i'm getting there....

I have no priorities, I make things up as I go through the day