I choose Intention as my word of the year (blog link here) to focus on Living my Life with Intention. One of the primary focuses in my Retirement Transition approach was to “create a life by design, not by default”. Living my Life with Intention right now means bringing that life design back into focus … Continue reading Living with Intention – Rebuilding Life and Home
Tag: positive practices
Mindset Shifting
In my retirement, I’ve explored positive psychology a few times. Early on, I read a number of articles and decided I wanted to change my pessimistic, cynical self to become more positive. Then I took a number of courses on the topic and really focused on putting positive psychology into practice. (Link here to my Positivity … Continue reading Mindset Shifting
What tools and techniques am I still using?
When I first retired, I had no idea “what I was retiring to”. The experts all said that was very important to know before you retired. But 55-60 hour work weeks with even my non-working hour’s mind-space occupied with work thinking didn't leave me very much time to figure out what that was. When I retired, … Continue reading What tools and techniques am I still using?
Retirement Lifestyle Vision Statement Update
My current Retirement Lifestyle vision statement (below) is really defining the activities in which I engage. See link here on my review of how my vision statement was refined through my retirement transition to this current statement: Active, Connected, Creative, Contemplative. These 4 vision areas and my Putting Positive Psychology into Practice Tenets really define … Continue reading Retirement Lifestyle Vision Statement Update
More Reminiscing
As I continue to put Positive Psychology into Practice (blog link) , here's some more reminiscing - experience reminiscing this time. One of my pandemic projects was dealing with all of our photos. From the pre-digital world, we had boxes and boxes of photos. I spent hours sorting and discarding, before sending them off to … Continue reading More Reminiscing





