What Happens When You Get Your Life Back--For This, I Am Grateful
This fall I’ve been privileged to teach a fair number of Road Next Taken classes. I’m always overwhelmed when in the space of a one time, 1 1/2 hour class, participants not infrequently crack open the window into their soul and share what’s there. For the majority, retirement is simultaneously wonderful and frightening. They’re uncertain about what they also feel certain about. Surprised that tomorrow can be challenging in ways they never imagined. So happy that they don’t have to go to work in the morning while wondering what this day...and the next...and the next might be. Like me. Like me, they wanted their lives back; they got them; and now what? What does happen when you get your life back? Is it handed to you on the metaphorical silver platter? Or do you have to rummage around in the kitchen drawer to find it? Is it what you expected, anticipated, planned for or does it end up being none of the above? T...