It's that time of the year again. Plenty of goodies to eat and drink, people to stay for a few days and a time to do some different things.
It's great to see them and eat nice food and it's great too when they go home again and normal routines can happen again.
Trouble is when you retire you don't always establish what your 'normal routine' is!
Is that 'trouble'? Or is that part of the joy of not having to go out to work to someone else's agenda? What do you think? I'd love to read your comments.
For me, I love the opportunities retirement brings: to learn and do new things, acquire new skills, do those things put aside years ago because of the demands of family and work.
I explore these issues in my book 'Get ready for Retirement – how to have a life after work' Have a look at http://www.lulu.com/sekersley
However it's easy to just while away the hours without achieving very much at all. Work-life balance is important in retirement. Perhaps it should then be called : Life -life balance- balancing the opportunity to take things more easily and the chance to do new things to. So as we approach the end of the year and the beginning of 2009, make some decisions about what you want to do this year and then plan when and how you will achieve your goals. Good luck!
