Hi, I'm Ann Harrison, founder of Contemporary Retirement Coaching and creator of the Retirement Detox Program. I hope you find the articles and resources here to be informative and inspirational and look forward to reading your comments and thoughts. More about me.
Last year I spoke on board a cruise ship. The average age of the passengers was well over 65. I would split the people I met into two categories, those with and without dreams. The ones who had dreams and hopes for their golden years or for their children and grandchildren were filled with life and energy. Those who thought they were too old to have dreams were a little like the walking dead. The difference was astounding.
Marcia Weider
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
The transitions of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning that has carried us successfully this far and to do something really new and different. It is a season more in tune than the earlier ones with the deeper promptings of the spirit.
William Bridges
Time is more limited and precious than any other resource you possess, and yet it's the one you pay the least attention to and squander the most freely.
Steven Scott
One of the major problems with your retirement, believe it or not, will be the inability to decide what makes you happy and what doesn't...
Doing more things that we want to do makes for a happier retirement life. Therefore, to make us happier, we have to minimise what we don't want to do and maximise what we want to do, in that order.
William S Jennings
When you're dying, you really pay attention to your family, to the trees, to the smell of a hot cup of coffee. ... I drank coffee every morning of my life and never enjoyed the smell as much as I do now. When you face death, you realize you could have been paying attention to all these things and millions more like them every day if you had only put your mind to it. If you want a definition of success, mine is short and sweet: Wake up and smell the coffee.
From the book 'Toxic Success', by Dr. Paul Pearsall in which Dr Pearsall quotes a woman with cancer who was reflecting on what she had learned.
The New Retirementality means we keep ourselves connected to the community and the world around us.... Retirement doesn't mean we're tired of living or absorbed in our own decline. Purpose does not leave with age. The flow of activity can someday slow to a trickle but it will not turn off. We can stay engaged to our dying breath, and by virtue of being engaged, we will prolong that breath for many years.
Mitch Anthony, The New Retirementality: Planning your life and living your dreams... at any age you want
Don’t let yourself
get stuck! There is … ALWAYS … something little you can start/do in the next
thirty minutes to make a wee, concrete step forward with a problem/
opportunity.
Tom Peters
