Career and professional success depends on excellent relationships with clients, vendors, peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and others in your network. Positive relationships depend on great interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence and social interactions. After leaving the formal world of ‘work’ the same skills are needed with friends, neighbours, family and others in your post work network. Maintaining […]
Author: Jeanette Lewis
Guess who's coming to dinner?
Sunday night dinners are sacred in many families. In our home, these events have often been rushed with the over-riding anxiety of all of the Sunday evening commitments that needed to be completed before leaving for the office early on Monday morning. No more. Now I am able to plan and to enjoy the fun […]
Managing Priorities
Today, as I rushed around trying to manage too many commitments I found myself reacting in familiar patterns: trying to multi-task, rushing to complete a ‘to do’ list, and feeling frustrated because I was unable to have ‘me’ time. Is it postworksavvy to revert to those familiar patterns when I had vowed to change this pattern […]
Damn! A summer cold
All is not well in postworksavvy Shangrila as I fight a nasty summer cold. Yes, even happy retired people with plans for summer fun struggle with the aches and pains of colds and flus. Coughing episodes and sniffles are not part of the plan during sunny hot July weather with World Cup games to watch and beach […]
Summertime
“Summertime and the living is easy” is the first line of a well-loved Gershwin song. Making a choice to retire just as a Southern Ontario summer begins was fortuitous as this season offers unlimited delights for postworksavvy. During the past five days I have savoured freshly picked raspberries, celebrated both Canada Day and Independence Day […]
Blessings of a summer at the Beach
Ah summer! Finally I can come to my cottage at Lake Huron just to relax, enjoy the beach, visit with friends, and sit on the deck listening to the sounds of the trees and of the water. What a change to arrive here thinking only about Rest and Relaxation! I am still having trouble believing […]
Every day is a choice
As the post work era begins making choices that will lead to happiness is important. Because so much of the time during the work and career phase of life was programmed and scheduled, the freedom to hear the beat of a different drummer can be a challenge. You are responsible for the choices you make. Each […]
Early days of Retirement
In the early days of the retirement journey I wake up to the traffic reports and realize that these reports are no longer a required part of the morning routine. Instead I listen to some classical music and relax as I enjoy my morning coffee without the rush of reaching the office in time for […]
Good-byes
As the hours passed during the last day at the office I realized again the importance and meaning of the relationships with co-workers. It was the support and help from so many people who allowed me to be successful at work. There were conflicting emotions as I pondered the fact that these good-byes would not […]
Those last days at the office
As the count down (15,14,13,12,11,10………….days left) marches relentlessly forward and only a few days of work are left, worry about using the time effectively strikes. People provide advice to take long lunches, to enjoy the last meetings, to arrive late and to leave early. I find myself ignoring all of the advice and proceeding through my days at […]
