Tag: setting challenges

Setting challenges in retirement, part 1 and the impact on your self esteem

Business man pushing large stone up to hill , Business heavy tasks and problems concept.

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… Continue reading Setting challenges in retirement, part 1 and the impact on your self esteem

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… Continue reading Learning new skills in retirement : taking a course in 2013

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… Continue reading Retirement and those learning goals

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… Continue reading Reflections of a retired person on jazz summer school

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… Continue reading Brave or foolish, where’s the line in retirement?

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