One of the elements I love about retirement is the ability to set up my days to align with my retirement lifestyle vision, which is based on my values and hopefully my natural inclinations and strengths. These past months have been a blur and I felt the need to relook at where I’m spending my … Continue reading A Review of My Time
Comments on my blog posts, whether actually on my blog comments, on Facebook, or in person, really help me think differently! I thank my readers for giving me new perspectives and pushing my thinking. Last week’s post on Who Am I (link here) was no exception. Here are some of the ideas sparked for contemplating … Continue reading More on Who I Am
These last few weeks have continued my up and down emotional recovery. I’ve struggled with reactivating some of my normal activities, including writing a blog. No, I’m not going to fall back on another Taking Stock (see Spring one link here), but I am going to attempt one heavy on pictures. I do not claim … Continue reading Return to Normal?
Back in winter, when I was stuck on what to write for a blog, I used a technique I’ve read other bloggers use, a “Taking Stock” approach, using the letters in winter for the individual words (link here). I am once again stuck on what to write for a blog, so here’s another Taking Stock, … Continue reading Taking Stock this Spring
I read an article a couple of weeks ago about “signs your mental health is suffering” which laid out some clear, every day types of signs (versus vague “anxiety" or "hopelessness” references). And it is apparent mine is suffering as I can check the boxes on a number of the signs: Life just feels heavy. There’s … Continue reading Mental Health Recovery
The two words that surface too often in my morning journal these days are overwhelmed and scattered. They are not feelings I am used to in retirement, where our lifestyle had settled into more routine (and fun) activities. Yes there were challenges in dealing with life transitions, but not the feeling of the overwhelm and … Continue reading Overwhelmed and Scattered
Winter is almost over here, although this week it’s still a bit chilly for Florida. Nothing like the Arctic Blast much of the USA is facing, but cool enough in the morning that makes the emergency heat kick in and us scrambling to find coats and gloves for a morning walk. I saw a fun … Continue reading Winter Taking Stock
I’ve had a number of challenging days lately and needed to relook at how to the pull myself out of a downward spiral. To stop the negativity when something is still small, before it spins into a full-blown, Very-Bad-Day. I recognize that our nervous systems are wired to pay more attention to negative events than … Continue reading Increase Daily Glimmers
Retirement often does not go as originally planned. There can be surprise health issues with the mindset and lifestyle changes that result from that significant life impact. There are choices to make changes in your retirement plan when things don’t play out as you had hoped, like our Big Move to Florida when the snowbird … Continue reading Hurricane Recovery – Month Four
When I was working, I found it exciting to manage multiple projects simultaneously. I had juggling multiple balls down to an art. Those project management skills are needed again and unfortunately feel very, very rusty. In retirement, I had embraced less multi-tasking and a slower pace of getting things done. As part of our hurricane … Continue reading Relearning to Juggle
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