Retirement stress then. It’s funny because I know all this stuff both from the viewpoint of a consumer and an adviser. You can’t be a psychologist for thirty or more years and be a big fan of cognitive behaviour therapy etc. and not know all about (well maybe not all but a lot) how our…
Category: Well being
Retirement through thick and thin, a weekly review 5
A retirement weekly review. I‘m not sure how I’m going to start this retirement blog except to say I’m going to keep it short and to say that it’s largely ‘a writing as therapy blog’* about a very mixed week. Let me start with the positive or as positive as it gets this week. You…
Beware, setting challenges in retirement can lower your self esteem
Ah, challenges in retirement. I missed a retro blog last week so I thought, given the week I’ve had with my music, it would be appropriate this week to go back to the beginning. To the first music-related retirement blog in these archives. So back to May, 2014 for this retro retirement blog. Little did…
Retirement and returning ‘home’, chapter1
Retirement and returning ‘home’, now there’s a thing. In the broadest sense of the word, and it is broad, the idea for me probably all started with a TV programme that’s on ‘normal’ TV at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. I would describe watching it as my guilty little secret except that I think I’ve…
Retirement Life: goes on part 4?
I’m sure you’ve all been wondering how my Land Rover key experience worked out from my last retirement life blog. Well I’ll tell you but you will need to pay careful attention because I’ll tell you right up front it’s barely believable. You will remember the last retirement blog ended with us finding the lost…
Retirement frustrations: Not getting ahead – again, part 2
Those retirement frustrations again. A few weeks ago I gave a friend some advice. It was about dealing with negative thoughts and my suggestion briefly was, rather than trying to stamp out the negative thought, it was more effective to replace it with a preferably positive thought/s. This advice kind of came back to haunt…
Retirement relaxation, 1: How do I achieve it?
So that most elusive of states, retirement relaxation. Relax they say, retirement is a time for relaxing, you’ve worked hard all your life. Well you know how it goes. The problem is for me that I’m not very good at relaxing which translates in my mind, as doing nothing or, more strongly, as wasting precious…
Setting challenges in retirement, part 1 and the impact on your self esteem
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…
Retirement challenges 2: To play or not to play?
So retirement challenges, what might that mean? It seems to me that the key (one key at least) to a happy retirement is your capacity to strike a balance between challenge and inertia. In other words to set yourself the right degree of challenge in your retirement activities – not too hard or too easy…
Retirement activity: Walking in the woods
Retirement activity and the great outdoors have always gone hand in hand for us. Well, that’s slightly over-egging the pudding, as they say, but it’s true in the sense that we walk the dogs every day. Two walks that is for a total of between an hour and a half and two hours. Prior to…