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.
Adrienne Furness, owner and author of the 'What Adrienne Thinks About That' blog, wrote 10 Rules to help you survive widowhood following the death of her husband and says that, four years later, it remains one of the most-viewed blog postings.
'It's just a stage you're going through...' - how many times have well-meaning friends and family members said that to you over the course of your lifetime? And, as far as retirement is concerned, 'disillusionment and disenchantment' is just one of the stages that most retirees go through. (Check out Mark Cussen's ' 6 stages of retirement' to find out which stage you've reached in the retirement process.)
Of course, problems can occur when you spend too long in the 'disenchantment' stage and feelings of disenchantment start to turn into boredom and dissatisfaction with your life, which can, in turn, lead to full-blown anxiety and depression.
If you feel that you may be suffering from depression, I would urge you to contact your Doctor immediately and get the help you need. However, if you feel that it's time to give yourself a bit of a shake-up in the 'retirement lifestyle' department, here are some of the ways that I can help:
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So many people are looking for it: their big life purpose.
Becoming YOU is your purpose. You’re the very purpose of your existence. Realizing what lights your fire and floats your boat -- THAT’s your life purpose. What else could it be?
If it gives you true joy {not the seemingly happy-high that is fleeting, but the reliable, always-there kind of satisfaction} to… grow a family or a garden; to help people feel powerful – whether by fueling their bank accounts or working their bodies or writing their stories; to make people laugh, to commune with nature, to make things a little more beautiful wherever you go; to feed; to stir it up, to clean it up, to look on the bright side; compassionate citizenry, non-stop exploration, or pure pleasure-seeking… then, by God, that’s your life purpose!
Your life purpose is what you say it is.
Who could tell you otherwise?
Danielle LaPorte
www.whitehottruth.com
Once you retire and have extra free time at your disposal, you may just find that all sorts of people come out of the woodwork with ideas about how you can spend that time... Babysitting, lunch dates, committees... you can't (and probably don't want to) say 'yes' to everything, so, in case you struggle with the 'n' word, here are 54 Ways to Get Out of Doing Anything You Don't Want to Do, courtesy of Oprah Magazine.
Reality never lies. Your income, relationships and circumstances always reflect the decisions you've made and the actions you've taken in the past. Reality is a mirror of who we are and how we've lived our lives.
Philip Humbert
(Philip's "Freebie of the Month" is a special report, "Four Steps to a World Class Life." This is a powerful, how-to-do-it report that gives you the "steps" to create the life you truly want. It's free and definitely worth getting from http://philiphumbert.com/Free.htm)
I was saddened to hear that Dave Freeman, the co-author of '100 Things to Do Before You Die', has died at the age of 47 following an accident at his home.
According to his relatives, Freeman had achieved about half the items on his list before he died. His co-author of '100 Things', Neil Teplica said, “He didn't have enough days, but he lived them like he should have.” A fitting epitaph.
If you still haven't got around to drawing up your 'Bucket List', have a look at 100 Things To Do Before You Die to give you some ideas about what you could put on there. (This Squidoo lens (just another word for website) contains 360 ideas actually, - surely there's something on there for everyone?)
Although we've always been told that money can't buy you happiness, an increasing number of studies show that, if you know the right way to spend it, money may be able to buy you happiness after all...
However, as you'll see in this article from Superliving.com, this doesn't involve using money to buy more 'stuff' but, instead, using it to 'facilitate those parts of life most likely to promote happiness' (such as paying someone else to do the jobs that cause conflict between you and your partner, or paying off or reducing debts to help you sleep easier at night).
