What Defines You

Your Patience When You Have Nothing and Your Attitude When You have Everything

Many before me have written about “What Defines You”. I can only articulate what I am feeling, at least in this moment. Feeling disoriented, disconnected really. Not sure exactly why, or What to Do? Sit with it maybe? Post 60, and three years into retirement, unidentified feelings awash me at times. I have written about this before, in that founders of companies, or business owners, or anyone being close to the WorkaHolic Label, once you stop doing what you have done for decades, there is a feeling of loss.

Any of us who have gained identity from our jobs may suffer from this. To be clear, I LOVE the SimpleLife, and am enjoying the transformation. As I dive deeper into this, I feel that part of these feelings stem from Numbness, nearly 40-Years of Numbing Up from Work, being all consumed with the detail of Business Life, until that’s all gone. Even though I have meditated for years, and I believe that to be quite helpful, I ponder on all that numbness. I can say, without question, I do not feel any stress most, if not nearly all days. But I do experience slowness, and I nap a lot, something I have done for years, but more now.

Sometimes We Don’t get To Choose

As paradoxical as it sounds, most transitions begin with an end. Your partner ends the relationship…