I have had a lot to learn about daily living as part of retirement transition. I was a workaholic; my work defined my daily and weekly living. Work/life balance was solidly on the work side of things. When the work went away, I needed to figure out how to live life. I’m still a beginner … Continue reading Learning to Live
It continues to surprise me how often hear people are “afraid to retire” because they still have the old mental vision of retirement – old age and restricted mobility, limited activities and isolationism, daily boredom. When you consider that many of us will have 25-30 years of retirement, transition into a 21st Century Retirement is … Continue reading Living a 21st Century Retirement
Last year, during my research into retirement transition I discovered a tool I’m calling 10 Lives. The tool has you list 10 lives you'd like to live and then “Pick one and just do it for a month.” It was a way of trying to overcome one of my fears with starting something – … Continue reading My Month of Yoga
A bump in the road, a curve in the path, an obstacle on the journey. Whatever you want to call it, I experienced a big one in the first days of the New Year. A plan we had in place for 18 months, that we thought was coming to fruition next month, was suddenly gone. … Continue reading A Bump in the Road
Choosing a word for the year takes careful consideration. I contemplated a number of words after my choice last year (JOY) was so impactful for me in 2016. My word for this year finally emerged while doing my vision board for the year! My word for 2017 is Live. (the verb) Vision Board 2017 … Continue reading Vision Board & Word of the Year — 2017
In early 2016, I was encouraged to create a 2016 Vision Board. Vision Boards are a fun way to use your creative side to visualize a future. My Vision Board for 2016 was full of color, created a very positive feel for my year, and supported the word of the year I had chose - … Continue reading Vision Board – 2016 Culmination
Recently I wrote about focusing on friendship to build stronger relationship connections in this next stage of life. With the loss of so many of my connections post-working, I’ve had to re-think what does friendship really mean. When I retired, I lost a significant portion of people I considered to be friends. These friends were … Continue reading What is Friendship?
This past year I chose “joy” as my word of the year. And recently I’ve seen a few “A to Z” listings of things to do. So combining these 2 inspirations, I created an A to Z list of seasonal things that bring me joy. I hope to inspire you to find joy … Continue reading Joy of the Season
I started blogging for a few different reasons - one being that I have always loved to play with words. Another reason was to share my thinking on retirement transition with others - the teacher in me coming out. And still another is a desire to call myself a writer as part of my retirement … Continue reading Is blogging really being a writer?
Retirement is a perfect time to reduce the stuff that crowds your life – whether it’s your environment, your schedule, or your mind. You would think that the simplest would be to de-clutter your environment. Get rid of the extraneous stuff that has accumulated. But what do you do when you live life with … Continue reading First-world Life Challenges: De-cluttering with a hoarder partner
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