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… Continue reading Retirement through thick and thin, a weekly review 5

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… Continue reading Beware, setting challenges in retirement can lower your self esteem

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… Continue reading Retirement and returning ‘home’, chapter1

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… Continue reading Retirement frustrations: Not getting ahead – again, part 2

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… Continue reading Retirement relaxation, 1: How do I achieve it?

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

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… Continue reading Retirement challenges 2: To play or not to play?

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