In the transition into retirement, it is often said to spend time and better understand yourself to help define what your best retirement will look like. When I first retired, I spent time getting a deeper understanding of myself, and have often encouraged others to do that as well. Yet I have found myself questioning, … Continue reading Heart’s Desires
I began doing a Monthly “I Did It” List this year to help me focus on celebrating the life I am living. I am prone to a Compare & Despair mindset. I often feel like milestones or achievements pass without recognition. I often think I’m not “doing enough,” as if there’s a need to be … Continue reading April Reflection – I Did It
I’m beginning to believe I have a distorted vision of friendship and that the “perfect picture of female friendship” is a just a fantasy. The BFF from childhood or high-school, who remains your BFF through it all – just getting older and grayer now. The tight knit group of besties who do things together all … Continue reading Let Go of the Fantasy
It’s been a tough couple of weeks emotionally. Nothing major, just my negative thoughts spiraling me down. I try and work on positivity with daily gratitude, journaling, getting outside in my garden, doing things I love to do. But there are times when my critical inner voice and my natural pessimism seem to overpower the … Continue reading Permission for the Negative Emotions
Part of my retirement lifestyle vision is contemplation. Active Body, Connected Heart, Creative Spirit, Contemplative Mind. I noted in my end of the year review that my contemplation element was down, so I’ve added more tarot card reading into my monthly routine. I use the tarot cards to aid in self-refection and to allow my … Continue reading A Look Back at my Tarot Readings
I feel like I am becoming jaded. After we went to the Florida Strawberry Festival, I even said, “Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt”. And yes, I did buy the t-shirt. However, I could have said what was awe-inspiring about the event! Too many times that I recall in the past year, I’ve been … Continue reading From Jaded to Wonder
My intent with my blog posts is to try and provide insight, in some manner, into retirement living. Recently however, I just seem to be living my retirement with not any major insight emerging. Here are a few of my less-than-insightful happenings this week: I’m on a “two for two” with planning fiascos. First, while … Continue reading Nothing Insightful Here
Recently I saw another intriguing tool called the “I Did It” list. You know I love my lists! This tool was to help someone feel like they had accomplished something – in the day, or week, or month. You were encouraged to not just focus on the big milestones, but the little things you got … Continue reading I Did It List – A New Tool
One of the fun tools I played with early in my retirement transition was writing 5 vignettes (short scenarios) based on 5 years in the future. I was learning about my love of writing and this sounded like a fun way to write creatively and also push my thinking on where I wanted to be … Continue reading Writing Future Scenarios
When one hears the phrase “Living a Life of Leisure” it often brings a sense of over-indulgence, selfishness, lack of responsibility, having no life purpose, or simply wasting time. Maybe that’s just my innate workaholic or the Puritan ethics I was raised on, but I have a hard time to not feel guilty with living … Continue reading From Workaholic to A Life of Leisure
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