As plans for celebration of the holiday season are finalized and we gather with friends and relatives, it seems an appropriate time to reflect on the blessings of the past few months. While the human tendency might be to rhyme off the things that did not work out as planned — which for me included […]
Author: Jeanette Lewis
What Everyone Ought to Know About Generosity
” You can share even if you have only a little”. Quote from an East African proverb. I was struck by the meaning of this a few years ago when our son was home for a brief visit at Christmas during the time he was studying abroad. He was unemployed, broke and looking to begin […]
How Life Changes can Decrease your Holiday Stress
Two weeks to go before the big day! Everywhere there are reminders that the holiday season is here. The morning paper arrives filled with sale flyers; the email in-box is full of promotions, radio stations are playing Christmas tunes, and TV stations are re-running the classic Christmas movies. By today, most people are deep into […]
A Centenarian to Emulate
During my recent hospital stay, I had a delightful lady of 102 years for a roommate. She was hospitalized due to a fractured hip which occurred when she was walking to her local mall for her weekly manicure. The fracture occurred when she was blown off her feet by a huge gust of wind. The […]
The In-Patient Experience
As many readers know, I had a total hip replacement aka total hip arthroplasty a week ago. This procedure was not part of the retirement plan and forced many other plans to be revised and postponed. Leading up to this surgery I had many worries, most of which proved ill founded. Up to this point […]
Preparation for major surgery
You can prepare for some things in life. Some things you must accept as life unfolds. In the world of postworksavvy, joint replacement was not part of the plan. I’ve spent the past few days preparing for the hip replacement surgery that I wrote about in an earlier post. There has been the busy work […]
Balancing priorities — postwork strategies needed
Who would have thought that someone who is retired would be struggling to balance priorities? While I was in career mode the challenge to find work/life balance was constant and I always felt that I was losing. My frenetic lifestyle gave an adrenalin high but was slowly draining my life energy and sucking away the […]
Time — your enemy? your friend?
When I went to the office every day for ‘work’, I usually felt a constant ‘time-stress’. Every activity was logged in my mind according to the amount of time it required. I had a mental balance sheet that ran continuously throughout the day and logged small things and bigger things — getting a cup of […]
Mental Toughness for life's setbacks
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 […]
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 […]
