Deepak Chopra defines emotional resilience as the ability to bounce back from life’s setbacks. Regular readers of postworksavvy know that life handed me a setback just two weeks before I retired when I received a diagnosis of moderately severe osteo arthritis. Despite denial, searching for second and third opinions, and bargaining with myself to avoid the […]
Month: October 2010
Curve Ball
‘When life hands you lemons, learn to make lemonade.’ quote usually attributed to Dale Carnegie A few weeks before my retirement in June I learned that I had moderately severe osteo-arthritis in my left hip and would eventually need a hip replacement. The first reaction was denial — not me! How could a fit woman […]
It's really over now
September 30 marked the official date of my retirement. Although I left the office on June 15 I have been taking unused vacation — an indication of what a workaholic I had become prior to retirement. Who would accumulate over 3 months of vacation time without an insane devotion to an organization? So after […]