So retirement confidence. There was an article in The Observer, newspaper, yesterday entitled, The Trick of Confidence, about how to build confidence, obviously, by Jamie Waters. I approached it with some interest it being a topic that often figured in my working days as an educational psychologist. The author of the article was very enthusiastic…
Category: How to have a happy retirement
No retirement resolutions, 2022’s version
Let me just say this about retirement resolutions – they seem, if my experience is anything to go by, to get less important as I get older. Comparing my 2013 retirement blog just posted, with this year’s, shows a marked difference in attitude. In 2013 I was still taking the process very seriously even to…
Retirement Christmas: choose your 3 best ghost stories
Ah, retirement Christmas’s. Well here we are again – nearly. Christmas Eve of my eighth Christmas since I retired. I never was a huge fan of Christmas when I was working, it seemed more like a time of obligation than pleasure. It doesn’t feel that way these days. The only obligations we have are the…
Retirement blog: 2014 retirement goals reviewed
It was quite a random decision to publish the 2014 goal-setting blog as the last one in my retro blog series. I looked at the title and thought hmm, that might be quite interesting to look at 7 and a half years later. So I did publish it and of course, at the same time,…
Retirement blog: Yet more thoughts on having fun
In my last retirement blog but one I wrote about the idea of having fun and what that might mean for the retired person. I don’t think I really answered the question so I’ll have another personalised go in this retirement blog. I have had some help from a couple of my most reliable commenters….
Retirement blog : Time for fun?
If I’m honest I’m somewhat suspicious of articles with headlines like Ready for the roaring 20s? It’s time to re-learn how to have fun, says happiness professor, as it appeared in The Observer a few weeks back. Apparently ‘the happiness professor’ is Laurie Santos who is a professor at Yale and who runs the university’s…
Retirement blog: KISS* or maybe not
When I read the newspapers or watch the news it makes me think, as I suppose it should. The problem is it’s rarely anything good or uplifting that I’m thinking. Although I’m mildly grateful that I have any thoughts at all. Much like my thoughts after reading the article represented in the picture above. I…
A brief Friday Retirement blog: Deal with your problems
It’s been what I suppose you might call an interesting week. Probably the kind of week that people all round the world have quite regularly and I should be grateful I don’t have them more often. I admit I committed that cardinal sin, common to all of us worriers, I rolled all my troubles together….
Retirement blog : Happy birthday to me
Yesterday was my birthday. I was and am, 73. I couldn’t honestly say I’m thrilled by being 73 although when you get to this stage in life there is just a small element (which I suppose might increase as I get older) of thinking well, at least I made it this far. And I don’t…
Retirement blog: How to lead an exciting retirement
What is the ideal excitement level for the retired person? I suggest you don’t want it too exciting because then you might find it hard to relax and as we know we retired people do like to relax. Too much stress may have the effect of shortening our retirement lives. Just saying. On the other…