Keeping Busy in Quasi-Retirement

Now that we have our consulting business underway, but the work has dried up, how do I keep busy?  It is interesting to see what suits your personality, marriage, health, and financial situation, and I am sure it is different for everyone.

Reflecting on what I do these days, I came up with informal estimates that I put into a table (being an engineer).

Activity	How Much?	Why?
Working out at the Gymn	Some	Keeps you physically and mentally healthy
Prospecting for Consulting Business	Little	Possibility of interesting work
Doing Consulting	Little	Interesting, sense of accomplishment
Hobbies: Building and flying home-made drone, fixing up computers..	Quite a bit	Challenging, sense of accomplishment, interesting
Managing personal investments	Little	Interesting, necessary
Housework	Some	I am married
Home handyman work	Some	Houses need maintenance, sense of accomplishment
Travel	Some	Interesting and see family and friends
Online courses	Some	Interesting, but not as interesting as I thought initially
Writing blogs	Little	Interesting, at least to me
Browsing Internet, reading news, reading books	Quite a bit	Interesting
Meeting with Friends	Some	Enjoyable
Watching TV	Some	Bad habit, had it since childhood thanks to Captain Kangaroo, The Flintstones, etc.
Eating out with spouse	Some	Enjoyable
Shopping with Spouse	Some	I am married

The best activities seem to involve "sense of accomplishment", "interesting", "challenging".  These seem to appeal to me the most.

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