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Opportunities vs Challenges in retirement 1

 Caree Risover charts her Retirement through
planning to implementation and enjoyment. Her retirement blog shares her quest
for meaning in retired life with details of her thoughts, creativity, Travel
and even her vegetable plot. I enjoy reading her blog and recommend it to you.
In a recent post, she started with the following 
statement.

What I really love about retirement are the opportunities to take up so
many new challenges.

What a
great idea and well phrased. I was talking to a young person the other day and
I said, do you know the old saying “Opportunity only knocks once.” He said yes,
and I said, it is not true, opportunity knocks all the time, but because we
only hear it once or twice and in fact, in my experience, few act on the
opportunities that present themselves.

In my blog, I have outlined some of these struggles, some that I have had
to work through, such as struggling to “switch off” from work mode and relax.

Over the
years I have talked to people who when retired, felt anxious because they had more
time on their hands, but less Money to spend. I have also talked to those who
have found it difficult to fill the extra hours with meaningful activities.

The biggest
issue that many retirees especially men had was the loss of identity, they were
no longer a doctor, teachers, designers, salespersons, electricians, or drivers, so
they had no idea who they were or would become.

Whatever
challenges you face as you prepare for this new chapter in life, the following
tips given in the next few blogs, I hope will help you ease the transition, reduce Stress and Anxiety, and find new
meaning and purpose in life.

Focus on the opportunities of retirement not the
challenges of retirement, is the message that those of us who have faced the
challenges have for those who are about to face them.

Originally Published on https://boomersnotsenior.blogspot.com/

I served as a teacher, a teacher on Call, a Department Head, a District Curriculum, Specialist, a Program Coordinator, and a Provincial Curriculum Coordinator over a forty year career. In addition, I was the Department Head for Curriculum and Instruction, as well as a professor both online and in person at the University of Phoenix (Canada) from 2000-2010.

I also worked with Special Needs students. I gave workshops on curriculum development and staff training before I fully retired

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