In all truth, I’ve never struggled with feeling lonely over the years. I liked being unique and had a strong authentic streak in me. And felt I dealt with it…
Re-Imagining Retirement
Re-Imagining Retirement: Potential
Something moved in my gut! I’d just put on a uniquely beautiful set of rings and whoa, they’d made a physical impact on me. What?! I repeated the process to…
Re-Imagining Retirement: Purpose
Praise for Ken Dychtwald’s book What Retirees Want includes comments like “a compelling call to purpose and action, Boomers are poised to accomplish their most enduring work,” “it will fire…
Re-Imagining Retirement: What’s your Secret Sauce?
On the theme of thriving, I’m just stopping by to test your personal understanding of yourself. What’s your Secret Sauce? What makes life work for you? Or, what do people frequently…
Re-Imagining Retirement: What needs expanding?
Joyce Major started sensing a need to expand her heart. In her mid-50s and selling real estate in Seattle, she became uncomfortable with her life. Her two sons would be…
Re-Inventing Retirement: The first secret you must discover
I was recently delighted to read John Izzo’s book, The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die. It is a wonderful mix of personal, storytelling and reflective wisdom as he…
Re-Imagining Retirement: Feeling invisible
The transition into retirement often holds several momentous “aha’s. One is when you realize you no longer have a reason to get out of bed! Another is who do you…
Re-Imagining Retirement: Experience the ideal
I’m kinda weird and perhaps idealistic, since a profile test I took a long time ago classified me as someone who falls into “Experience the Ideal” type of person. They…
Re-Imagining Retirement: Hope
Good Friday was a day I took as a holiday, when my job started allowing personal choice holidays. For me it was a combination of deliberately marking springtime, the earth…
Re-imagining Retirement: Consequential happiness
I recently was putting serious time into trying to come up with a new name for a project I was working on, when I came up with consequential happiness, as…
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Re-Imagining Retirement: Longevity planning
Longevity planning, I feel, is the answer to the extensive debate and controversy about the need for a new perspective and language on aging. Today’s Boomer retirement is certainly not…
Re-Imagining Retirement: Love, Play, Listen
Years ago, I was drawn to the marvelous work of Bernie Siegal with his book Love Medicine and Miracles and his others. In recent times, Elizabeth Gilbert wrote of her…
Re-imagining Retirement: New Trends
I have spent the major part of seven months this year driving for Lyft to cover the investment I made to inspire possibilities and purpose in retirees through my podcasts….
Re-Imagining Retirement: Legacy
I just finished reading Marc Freedman’s new book How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations. Wow! I’ve heard of Marc over the last couple of years,…
Re-Imagining Retirement: The courage to be yourself
How often have you needed great courage to be yourself? Express your uniqueness. It’s risky, right? And yet comparing ourselves to others, is paralyzing. Instead, revitalize yourself by warmly recalling…
Re-Imagining Retirement: Gratitude
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.” Maya Angelou…
Re-Imagining Retirement: Time
Time is too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who…
Re-Imagining Retirement: Possibility
I get excited about the possibility of fully engaging everyone’s potential, unique gifts and skills. There are millions of various combinations possible in expressing them around the world! So, I…
Re-Imagining retirement: Talent and time
If one has a talent and cannot use it, one has failed. If one has a talent and only uses half of it, one has partially failed. If one has…