Retirement Awakening

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Category: Mind

  • The Games We Play

    “By the time you’re eighty years old, you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” – George Burns In my youth, I loved hanging […]

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  • Choice

    “The difference between responding and reacting is choice. When you are reacting, they are in control. When you respond, you are. Learn.” – Henry Cloud […]

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  • Puzzling

    “It’s always the small pieces that make up the big picture.” – Randy Frazier My sister arrived at my house two months ago with a […]

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  • Tiptoe

    “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.” – Tiny Tim In winter 2022, I found myself shopping for a ukulele in a Long and McQuaid store. My older […]

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  • Snuffers

    “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” –  Ralph Waldo Emmerson On my journey through retirement, I have found myself […]

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  • Stopping the B Movies

    “Happiness is not a possession to be prized; it is a quality of thought, a state of mind” – Daphne du Maurier The stories we […]

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  • Getting Myself to a Healthy Place – Awareness

    It may seem counterintuitive, but I’ve learned that to keep my mind healthy, I first need to stop it from thinking. Jon Kabat-Zinn talked about […]

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