Retirement with Meaning

• The importance of the Second Half of Life principles in resolving your retirement concerns in order to create the retirement you want.
• A lesson from AA that the easier, softer way didn't work.
• The importance of personal change or growth in successfully navigating your retirement years.
• A true story of a woman who made a big change in a short time and its life changing results.
• Increasing your chances of creating the retirement you want.
• The importance of developing a new relationship with anxiety.
• The impact on your retirement of how you think about retirement.
• Anxiety will take you somewhere alive and growth oriented.  Depression won't.

• Why anxiety is good news.
• Resolving retirement anxiety.
• The benefits of resolving retirement anxiety.
• A new relationship with anxiety: the key to personal growth.
• The classic push-pull involved in moving ahead.
• True story of a woman's victory over life crippling anxiety.
• Anxiety: the price of the the ticket to life. 

• Note: I have restructured my approach to focus on my podcast.  You might hear references to my website and blog in Podcasts 1-4, but I have taken them down as of January 6, 2023.  Up-to-date references about a new minimal website in Libsyn will appear starting with Podcast #5.
• Why we need a new approach in the Second Half of Life.
• Differences between the first and Second Half.
• Transitioning from the first to Second Half.
• Positive aspects of the mid-life crisis.
• Challenges of the Second Half of Life.
• Rewards of the Second Half of Life.
• Your personal growth as the key.

• Note: I have restructured my approach to focus on my podcast.  You might hear references to my website and blog in Podcasts 1-4, but I have taken them down as of January 6, 2023.  Up-to-date references about a new minimal website in Libsyn will appear starting with Podcast #5.
• Awareness of decisions to be made.
• My basic approach to resolving retirement issues.
• The "Tyranny of Chronological Age."
• Importance of allowing yourself to still dream.
• The upside of mid-life crisis.
• The cure for exhaustion.
• Keeping on keeping on.
• Buying into this important work at the level you are ready for.
• Staying engaged with life.

• Note: I have restructured my approach to focus on my podcast.  You might hear references to my website and blog in Podcasts 1-4, but I have taken them down as of January 6, 2023.  Up-to-date references about a new minimal website in Libsyn will appear starting with Podcast #5.
• The Second Half of Life is a golden opportunity for remaking meaning and purpose and living vitally.
• Stinking thinking can cloud or block the opportunity just as it can tell an addict there is nothing wrong, nothing needs done, so he misses getting into recovery and a healthy life.
• Stinking thinking excuses us from having to venture into the risky-feeling area of change.
• We end up with a push-pull dilemma where we can easily opt for safety instead of the vulnerability necessary for growth.
• At best, we can end up with information but not transformation.
• The challenge is to stay engaged with life rather than choosing the seemingly easier way.
• Support is very important.

• Note: I have restructured my approach to focus on my podcast.  You might hear references to my website and blog in Podcasts 1-4, but I have taken them down as of January 6, 2023.  Up-to-date references about a new minimal website in Libsyn will appear starting with Podcast #5.
• This podcast proposes a different approach to solving your retirement questions:
• The basic solution is change or growth in yourself or your approach.
• However, there is no growth without risk.
• Change, or the unfamiliar, evokes discomfort in us.
• Retirement is a major change.
• Therefore, willingness to bear with uncomfortable feelings, even feeling vulnerable, is a prerequisite to resolving your retirement issues.

Learning to live our retirement or elders years with vitality, meaning and purpose is quite possible. However, we will have to deal with resistance on the way to attaining our goals. This episode helps to identify the resistance and to learn to overcome it on the way to the life we want.

This episode is to counter the gloomy predictions about aging that our culture hands us.  Instead, it provides an orientation to what we can do to live our elder years with vitality, meaning and purpose.