Retirement blog about all things health related* Many, many years ago, when I first qualified as an educational psychologist, there was a method of teaching children with reading difficulties that I found difficult to accept. Although it was popular at the time (not any longer TG, at least I don’t think it is), I couldn’t…
Category: Well being
Retirement blog on not expecting the unexpected
Who’d have thought it? But that’s the point I suppose. That this last week would have a strong element of ‘I didn’t see that coming’. True I knew that last Friday night I would be appearing in my first gig with my new jazz group and I knew this would be stressful – and it…
Retirement blog about de-cluttering one’s life
I’ve written a couple of times in this retirement blog about the benefits of de-cluttering or simplifying my retirement life. I’ve been at it again although not quite in the way I’d planned. We sold our cottage in Pateley Bridge earlier this year. In this case we had no choice, it was a hard-nosed financial…
Retirement blog about going back to work
This retirement blog is about the strangest thing that happened to me last week. Well that’s not actually completely true, the clue is in the title but the truth is the ‘going back’ only happened in my head. What’s strange about it is that I actually wanted it to be true, I think. This was…
Retirement blog about keeping your confidence
A retirement blog that starts with – ask any elite sportsperson, or non-elite for that matter, about the whys and wherefores of their performance and you won’t get far without the word confidence coming into the discussion. Asked why their achievements have gone up a level or why they are playing well when before they…
Retirement blog and avoiding DIY
I know I said I’d only write one retirement blog a week but this one was asking to be posted. So I have. I have heard that there are women (there may even be men) out there who wait for their partners to retire so that they may present them with a long list of…
Retirement blog about spinning those plates
Retirement offers more choices, more opportunities. When you’re working, there are fewer opportunities for choice because most of your life is determined by the demands of your job, of earning a living, bringing up your children, that type of thing. When you retire there’s more time for you to decide what you’re going to do with…
Picking up my retirement life when I get back from holiday
I never liked coming back off holiday when I was working and now I’m retired it’s a similar story although not identical. Confused? I’ll try and explain. Apart from the obvious – you were having a good time and now you’re back to work with all that that entails, there was another reason I didn’t…
Retirement challenges, part 2 or 3?
I know retirement has its unusual side but I’m willing to bet that seeing going on holiday as a challenge wouldn’t normally be thought of in those terms. After all holidays are generally thought to be a period away from the day to day challenges of ‘normal’ life. But then I often feel my retirement…
Retirement, sport and (not) being in control
When you’re retired you have to be very thoughtful about how you spend your time. There are two main reasons, first the obvious, you have less of it to spend and you don’t want to be squandering what you have if you can help it. Second, you don’t want to spend time engaged in activities…