I love the serendipity when different bloggers begin talking about a similar question or life element. Recently, there’s been a few talking about answering the question for soon-to-be retirees - what do you do everyday in retirement? Or how do you answer the commonly asked question “What do you do?” if you are no longer … Continue reading Thoughts on “What Do You Do?”
Work-life balance is an older term that was created to mean you were making sure both elements had an adequate existence in your life. Many would say that it is a pipe dream. Some people have an innate sense of being able to balance the two elements. Others are more challenged to not become workaholics. The … Continue reading Does the Gig Economy Help with Work/Life Balance?
Part of my retirement transition has been exploration into happiness. There are many hypotheses about what drive happiness, especially later in life, but one that seems to have conflicting messages are the concepts of be-ing and do-ing. On one hand there is the idea of finding the joy in being non-productive. Being in the moment. … Continue reading The Balance of Be-ing and Do-ing
It runs a chill down my spine when a series of events seem to ask the same question. Recently, between a few different bloggers and a couple of theater productions, the question around “what one thing would you change” has been raised. This question can easily drift into regret. Regret for a path not taken, … Continue reading A Path Not Taken?
For many years, my husband has given me things (T-shirts, bumper stickers, magnets) with variations of the iconic quote “It’s the journey, not the destination.” He did it teasingly because as a Type-A, goal-setting workaholic, I was always about the destination. In retirement I am (slowly) coming to realize it IS about the journey. And … Continue reading Retirement Transition – It’s the Journey
We hit a major milestone in the Life Vision last weekend. A milestone we have been planning since we retired 2.5 years ago; the milestone that had a massive derailment in January. And hitting this moment feels completely anti-climactic! After the previous plan fell apart, I spent many sleepless nights in January pondering the various … Continue reading My Anti-climactic Milestone
I’m sharing this past month’s Winter Blues because sometimes I think it’s helpful to hear that not everything in retirement transition is an easy road. My “morning mental health checks” since the beginning of this year have not been good. Yes, part of my morning journaling is an emotional assessment. Last year seemed to be … Continue reading Winter Blues
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
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