I recently listened to an interview with Petula Clark who is now in her early 90s. She talked about achieving happiness by forgetting the ‘good old days’ and instead, focusing on living for today. The comment made me think about how many retired people spend too much time living in the past. They meet former […]
Enjoying Retirement
10 No Brainer tips to Manage the Daily ‘To Do’ list
How do you manage your daily ‘to do’ list? Do you finish all the items on the list? Does your ‘to do’ list keep nagging you? Do many items stay unfinished and get carried over to the next days’ list? I confess that on most days I don’t complete everything on my ‘to do’ list. I get […]
How journal writing keeps you focused
For more than 30 years I’ve written quite regularly in a journal. Some entries are lengthy with heartfelt emotional outpourings; others are brief describing only mundane (uneventful) aspects of daily life. I continue to write journal entries on most days. If life gets in the way and I miss doing any entries for a few […]
Forgiveness — A Fresh Start for the New Year
Do you want a fresh start for the New Year? Do you want a clean slate? Making a fresh start often means practising forgiveness. Without forgiveness, you will have more difficulty moving on and getting the benefits from New Year’s resolutions. You may need to ‘mend fences’ with people close to you by forgiving them […]
Retirement Happiness — How to Keep the Spirit of Christmas
Christmas is over. Rather than rushing to the Boxing Day sales, I’ve spent a couple of days sitting quietly and pondering how to keep the spirit of Christmas in my heart. These are slow days at our house. There is no cooking. The kitchen is closed — except for the fridge and the pantry where […]
Retirement Happiness — The Holy Grail on how to slow down aging
Tactics to slow down aging have taken centre stage in the popular press and online. Most of us know and accept that we can’t prevent aging. Aging is natural. There is no cure. Despite marketing claims, no product or pill exists to stop the process of aging. But lifestyle choices can help to slow down this […]
Retirement Happiness — How to use your ‘Elder’ Wisdom
If it’s true that we achieve greater wisdom as we grow older, how can we enhance and use our ‘elder’ wisdom? It’s commonly understood that wisdom increases with age. The storehouses of experience, knowledge, insight and capacity to see life as a ‘big picture’ are said to improve as we grow older. How can we […]
Retirement Happiness — A Reporter’s Take on my Presentation to the CARP chapter in Sarnia
Some of my local readers know that I made a presentation to the CARP Chapter meeting in Sarnia, Ontario last week. Here is a reporter’s take, written by David Pattenaude for the Petrolia Topic newspaper, on the presentation. http://www.petroliatopic.com/2013/11/27/happy-retirement-tips-offered?utm_source=addThis&utm_medium=addthis_button_facebook&utm_campaign=Happy+retirement+tips+offered+%7C+The+Petrolia+Topic#.UpqUdNm0-Ms.facebook
Happiness in Retirement — Relationships Matter
Relationships matter — if you want a happy retirement. When describing longevity, the popular blog about.com begins its post with this strong statement on relationships. Relationships are an essential part of health. Isolation and loneliness create responses in the body similar to those of stress. The body does not function as well as when we are […]
Retirement Happiness — Watching your children become parents
What a joy to watch your children learn how to become parents! Six months ago we became grand parents. More importantly, our son and daughter-in-law became parents. From the first day their pride was visible. They handled the baby carefully and displayed the hyper-vigilance common to all new parents. Diapering and feeding were time-consuming with […]
