A Personal Perspective: Focusing on wellness during our career years can help counter the trepidation and emotional turmoil felt by many at the time of their retirement.
Accepting a gradual decline in our capabilities counters our desire to push beyond our body's limits.retirement
Strategies: The more we remind ourselves of and take pride in our efforts throughout our working lives, the easier it becomes to step back in retirement and savor the contributions we made. There’s nothing wrong with resting on one’s laurels. And who says we can no longer contribute? We now have oodles of time to pursue all sorts of community-service activities. I do a ton of volunteer teaching. A friend builds homes with Habitat for Humanity.
A close friend notes that his work was like an old sweater: beat up, patched, threadbare, and far from perfect, yes, but comfortable nonetheless. On retirement, the sweater is put away, and we are left figuring out what will take its place and fill the many hours of each day. Strategies: As a colleague noted: “I’ve never met a dying man/woman who wished they had spent more days at the office.” The point is there is no top of the ladder. There is no ultimate accomplishment. I would argue that anyone who, during their working years, puts in a daily effort to keep their family safe and society running needs no self-reproach over not “doing enough.” The key is finding a level of balance in our lives where we attend to what is important to us at the time.
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