Continuing with the habit of making this retro retirement blog related to the one I’ve just published here’s one about setting challenges from June, 2014. It’s striking how different the tone of my blogs were back then from today’s efforts. In those days they were far more ‘instructional’ and full of advice and longer. Also…
Tag: setting challenges
Learning new skills in retirement : taking a course in 2013
Back to November 2013 for this the 22nd retro retirement blog. Probably the first report in my retirement blogging of my desire to keep on learning. The first of my Coursera courses, it’s musical but with a twist. Real life experience and research findings don’t always agree and that’s an understatement. Some people swear by…
Retirement and those learning goals
It must be about time I brought you up to date on how I’m doing with my main retirement learning / setting myself challenges, goal. Specifically how my playing jazz piano is going. I think it’s been a while since I last wrote about this most-demanding of my retirement activities perhaps because I’ve been too…
Reflections of a retired person on jazz summer school
So a retired person decides to set himself a challenge. He believes that stepping out of his own comfort zone would somehow prove character building and that by setting challenges or goals that will be the way to fill that gap he’s sometimes called the missing link and hence lead to a complete and fulfilling…
Brave or foolish, where’s the line in retirement?
There’s an awful lot of, often conflicting, advice available about how a person can increase their chances of having a happy / productive retirement. One piece of advice that seems to induce a high level of agreement among retired people and those who advise us, is – keep active both physically and mentally. By keeping…
Retirement and more all that jazz
This is a blog from the dark side, it’s writing as therapy, a bit of a whinge maybe, so if you don’t want to read a blog about a retired person complaining, don’t read on. Thing is I’m getting fed up with my jazz workshops – I went to one last night (Monday) hence this…
Retirement and All That Jazz
I thought I would bring you up to date with how my learning about jazz improvisation is going. You may remember in a previous blog I referred to the fact that I had signed up for another Coursera course. They are a brilliant idea – free (mostly), on-line learning, but I did find the first…