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Continue reading →: Vacation Musings: Lessons on Relaxing in RetirementI got to thinking recently about vacations—their actual purpose, and what they will look like once retirement finally arrives. Back in the fall, I took a 10-day adventure of fun and frivolity to the tropical Caribbean island of Grenada. It was meant to be 10 days of just sitting back…
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Continue reading →: T-1: Mid-Course CorrectionsI have decided to keep the countdown clock as is. I am not leaving or retiring in a month as discussed in T-2. The countdown simply marks a passage of time for me, and when it hits zero, it will still feel like a big day. It might not be…
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Continue reading →: Random musings: Return of the Stormtroopers, The Empress, and the Hunt for JoyThe Return of the Stormtroopers With more and more Stormtroopers being mandated back to the Death Star office, I am enjoying work less. It has taken me years to get comfortable working by myself. Deep down, I truly expected that having more people around would mean more fun. More engagement.…
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Continue reading →: The Good Side: Why Work Isn’t All BadIf I look back at my previous posts, it probably sounds like my current job is slightly better than contracting the plague. Those are the bad days. But as I often say, we humans are wired to obsess over the negative, letting the positive moments drift by without giving them…
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Continue reading →: Hero vs. Villain: Words Matter, Part 2Good vs. Bad. Which one are we? We look at the jobs or relationships we left behind and subconsciously decide if we were the Hero or the Villain of the story. Typically, there is no in-between. We are one or the other. How we label our past dictates our inner…
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Continue reading →: The Husband Shield and Other Short-Term Memory GlitchesIn my 50s, my brain still likes to think it’s in its 20s. But let’s face it, there’s some mileage on the chassis now, and the body rears its head every so often to remind me. Take my knee, for example. It greets me with a dull ache after too…
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Continue reading →: Work things I won’t miss: Looking behind the Curtain of the Senior Management ClubAll of the Death Star Senior Managers are off-site for two days at a yearly strategic planning meeting. I am not there. My first instinctual feeling was, what the $%^%#? I imagine the Senior Management Club as a smoke-filled room of mastermind strategists plotting the future of the galaxy with…
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Continue reading →: T-2: The Blue Origin Launchpad EditionPadme is going back to work. In two weeks, she will start a gradual return to ease back into the insanity. The hope is that starting at three days a week will make the re-entry a little softer. For those who have followed our story, thank you for your support.…
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Continue reading →: Never Tell Me the Odds: The Dark Side of the Stress VacuumI am a firm believer that we humans need a little friction in our lives. We need stress. I talked about this a while back ( The Stress Vacuum: Why Retirement Won’t End Anxiety), but a recent conversation with my “guys group” reminded me of just how stupidly we behave when…
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Continue reading →: A Beautifully Weird Path: Stages of Life and Gratitude for Where we areFor the last six or seven years, I have been part of a friend group that I met through our local church. Church has a way of providing a broader perspective on life and community. It gets me out of my own head and forces me to think of others…
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