The actual day has come and gone but indeed I am celebrating my
second anniversary in retirement.
Regrets? Not at all.
Learnings? Experiences? There have been many but the highlight for me
has been self realization. I am more
aware of the expectations that I put on myself and in some ways I have to thank
those agonizing semi-annual “People at Work” performance assessments for making
me so self aware and goal oriented. At
the time all the evaluations did was make me feel as though I could go nowhere
and I felt less than inspired while working through them and then sitting
through the meeting with my boss. But
now I put those same skills to use as I assess my daily, monthly and annual “performance”.
Why, you may ask? When I took the retirement seminar one of the
statements that the coach made resonated with me in a very meaningful and
powerful way. He said “When you look
back on your year you should be able to say ‘what a ride’ instead of ‘time flew
by’ and the difference struck me immediately.
As I have said in other blogs my first year did fly by but I could look
back and pay myself on the back for literally being able to see what I had done
that first year in the way of good building projects. The first 4 or 5 months of year 2 began with
me floundering a little bit until I worked through a few seminars on my own and
now I can say that year 2 has also been a great success although the
achievements are visible only to myself.
It’s like the difference between building the pyramids and writing the
Declaration of Independence. One is
visible to all while the other works into the heart of the people.
Now what shall I do with year 3? Whatever it may be I am sure I am up to the
challenge!
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