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
Tag: retirement transition
What is Friendship?
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?
First-world Life Challenges: De-cluttering with a hoarder partner
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
What do I want to be when I grow up?
As kids, teens, and young adults we are regularly asked - what do you want to be when you grow up? During this retirement transition, I’ve continued to struggle in defining (discovering?) my passion - what do I want to do/who do I want to be? I just finished reading the book I Could Do Anything, … Continue reading What do I want to be when I grow up?
What I am Learning in Retirement
Being relatively new to retirement, I am finding there is a learning curve. It’s more than learning about an interest area. It’s learning how to live. Here are some of the specific things I am learning about life in retirement: In retirement, you choose how to spend your days. This is a bit of a … Continue reading What I am Learning in Retirement
The Joy of Not Working
My word for this year is Joy. Living a year of finding joy in the little moments, finding joy in not working, and finding joy in exploring new things has been uplifting. New things that added joy to my life: a long-weekend trip to NOLA with hubby, Zumba, Cooking Boot Camp, regular beach yoga in … Continue reading The Joy of Not Working
Does Zip-Lining “resolve” my childhood belief systems?
One of the core premises of the most recent (self-help) book I am reading is that your current life challenges are based in belief systems established in your formative years. While I had never ascribed to the premise that your childhood defines you, there is something to be said for how this book has recently … Continue reading Does Zip-Lining “resolve” my childhood belief systems?
The Work of Retirement
Recently I’ve heard a number of folks talking (both live and on blogs) about “failing at retirement” and returning to work fulltime. While in some cases, these individuals discovered that they get a lot of personal satisfaction from their work, others in fact failed to replace full-time work with anything, and therefore defaulted to go … Continue reading The Work of Retirement
What is Personal Growth in Retirement?
As I looked back at my 7 Life Domains Model on which I based my retirement life vision, I realized that I had not fully investigated the area of Self-Development/Volunteering. Serendipity has raised her head on this topic as well: A friend recently sent me the quote “You are either green and growing or ripe … Continue reading What is Personal Growth in Retirement?
Freedom versus Commitment
I really enjoyed reading the in-depth survey recently published by Age Wave/Merrill Lynch where they talk about the 4 phases of retirement. Having just passed my 2-year into retirement mark, I have definitely lived the “2-year retirement transition” phase they called Liberation and Self-Discovery. I do believe I am entering the next (quite long) phase … Continue reading Freedom versus Commitment
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