Finding happiness is not the same at the point of retirement as it was at age 5 or 6. There’s a lifetime of stumbles that often get in our way.
Mary Helen and Carol in this edition of Kitchen Table Talks discuss figuring out what happiness means to us now, and what might be getting in our way of finding it.
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OMG this entire podcast spoke to me and my life including what I am currently going through! I have listened to it 3x and intend to listen again and again so it really sinks in. I don’t want to go into detail as it would be a LONG story, but suffice to say it just feels so good to know that my entire thought processes the last 2+ years about happiness, contentment, fulfillment, dreams, goals, fear, unresolved issues, retirement etc has not been so off-the-wall. Just knowing that has made me feel so much better. I will add, however, that many times it is ME who holds me back, rather than concerns from, or of, others holding me back. Friends and family WANT me to (for example) travel to places I have dreamed of, or travel in ways I have dreamed of (like jumping in the car and just driving without a destination. I would love to do that.) but it is ME who talks myself out of going or doing. How do I get empowered to go and do? How do I stop myself from sabotaging my dreams?