But What Now?

Thinking and dreaming about my own impending early retirement is one of my favorite things to do. I have so many reasons guiding me towards this decision that I thought I’d share a few here. This list applies to anyone thinking about retirement at any time, though, not just early retirement. One of my favorite […]

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Someone who worked in my office a couple of years ago retired at the end of 2006. First of all, it’s amazing to me that that much time has passed, but that is not why I bring him up. I remember when he had a year to go and we would talk about it regularly. […]

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Some of us are retiring earlier in life than others. We have good reasons for taking an early retirement. Speaking for myself, I want to retire early so that I can pursue a new vocation. I’m not even entirely sure what it is yet! Now, that doesn’t sound much like retirement, does it?
Really, though, […]

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Sometimes I think what I want to do when I retire is to be a full time parent to my two cats. I learn so much from my cats, I watch them and they’re so content with themselves.
Cats don’t have self esteem problems. They don’t have difficulty with body image.
And even my old cat […]

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Time is a funny thing. I can remember stuff I did 3 years ago as though it was just yesterday. When I see the date 2003 on something I am amazed sometimes that it was now practically five years ago!
But now that I am anticipating my last day at work at my current job, […]

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I’ve been working on and off (mostly on) for someone else for nearly 40 years. Most of my energy has been funneled into my jobs and as I’ve moved up the proverbial ladder, more of my emotional energy has also been tapped and some days fully exhausted. So, when I try to think about what […]

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I spend my days doing a job that feels like it is taking me away from who I really am and what I really want to do. I feel closer to my source today, and I know that I am getting close to being in a situation (i.e., my life!) where I can choose what […]

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How many of you have a hobby you would love to spend more time doing? Raise your hands! I’ve got my hand way up in the air. I’d like to spend more time doing this. Since I am not yet retired, my hobbies need to wait until after work. Since writing helps me to relieve […]

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Retirement, because it is such a life change, can put a strain on relationships and it can enhance relationships. How many people have you heard say that their retired spouse drives them crazy?
Control Over Your Own Space
Each person needs, as Virginia Woolf so elegantly wrote about, a room of one’s own. My partner is semi-retired […]

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I ran across this today from one of the internet’s premier teachers, Mark Joyner. He is taking advantage of what I love about the internet today. What is that? Social networking! It’s really what networking has always meant until you put all the electronics and technology in front of it. That’s why we call […]

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Many of us haven’t had the luxury of thinking about any of this for most of our adult lives because we have been, in essence, living for others. Now that you’re retired, you can have some fun rediscovering yourself.

Childhood Dreams
When you were a child, before the reality of adulthood set in, what did you […]

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Here I will be discussing vision as being what drives us to our own greatness. Greatness does not necessarily or even normally imply celebrity or being famous, but rather being in our own groove. I truly believe that being in our own groove, or being true to ourselves, makes us great in the world we […]

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The purpose of this post is to begin to explore what transitions are and different views we can apply to the big transition in our lives we call retirement.

Managing the Transitions
Retirement is a big transition. It changes what you do on a day to day basis. It changes how you see yourself and it changes […]

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2008 is finally here. I know everyone laments how quickly time flies, including me, but when we want something badly, time just feels way too slow. Once I retire, of course, I want time to be less meaningful. In other words, I hope not to think of it much at all and only enjoy my […]

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