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Retirement is wonderful. Despite what I see as competing demands on my time necessitating constant scheduling, the past six months have been refreshing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything I am doing is what I think I want to be doing yet the trick remains parceling out 24 hours in a day to incorporate spouse, grandkids, kids, friends, employers that want my assistance, my own interests and the strong urge to sit and do nothing. I find it too easy to over promise and under energize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This transition requires some thought and planning to avoid muddled messes of all the above. How to sort through this? The books I read, and there are some great ones out there, all tell me this is the time of life for self discovery and self engagement. It is a time as thrilling and exciting as when I turned 18, or when I became a mom. Now, with the wisdom of experience, and fewer responsibilities, I am ready to take up the challenge and opportunity to become who I really am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is an exciting new era for me and my goal is to make the best of this time of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been<\/strong><\/em>.” David Bowie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Invitation to Retirement<\/strong><\/mark> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
by Ann Marie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
One day I was driving to work in the rain. Tired at the start of the day, hands and hips sore with arthritis, and I saw a new home for sale. I realized in an instant that could no longer be mine. I am through with the acquiring phase of my life. Done accumulating. But that left me with the question, “what do I dream about now?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Retirement for me means taking time to find what I really want to do with the rest of my life. Although my actual retirement was spurred along by a funding cut, I was at the place where, despite having meaningful employment, my life wasn’t satisfying me any more. In fact, it was stressing me out. I knew a change was imminent and welcomed the opportunity when it presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four months into my new reality I am thrilled to be out of the day to day busyness that employment presented and am now left with a vague anxiety about what I “should” be doing. This is my work for the next little while, figuring out how to embrace retirement in a way that offers me meaning and purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is also one of the themes through Conscious Aging, learning what my soul is saying to me and letting go of things that get in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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