Hi, I'm Ann Harrison, 2 young 2 retire facilitator and founder of Contemporary Retirement Coaching. I hope you find the articles and resources here to be informative and inspirational and look forward to reading your comments and thoughts. More about me.
The less stuff you own, the less you have to clean, store, maintain, manage, protect, worry about, stress about, waste money on, forget, and pick up. Have the minimum amount of stuff for you to be comfortable. (This level is different for everyone and you’ll have to figure it out for yourself.)
Erin Doland
Dreams or excuses? You can't have both. Excuses take up time, energy and divert us while deceiving us into thinking we're being prudent. Excuses are never prudent. However, they can insidiously take over if we don't consciously choose to give our dreams a higher priority.
Barbara Winter
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary...
Steve Jobs
Last year I spoke on board a cruise ship. The average age of the passengers was well over 65. I would split the people I met into two categories, those with and without dreams. The ones who had dreams and hopes for their golden years or for their children and grandchildren were filled with life and energy. Those who thought they were too old to have dreams were a little like the walking dead. The difference was astounding.
Marcia Weider
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
The transitions of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning that has carried us successfully this far and to do something really new and different. It is a season more in tune than the earlier ones with the deeper promptings of the spirit.
William Bridges
Time is more limited and precious than any other resource you possess, and yet it's the one you pay the least attention to and squander the most freely.
Steven Scott
Thanks to Gary Craig for supplying the following list... (You may have seen these before but you have to admit that they are perfect!):
'These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a great portion of the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words, not to mention waving middle fingers.'
'I didn't attend
the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.' - Mark
Twain
'He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.' -
Oscar Wilde
'I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my
new play; bring a friend.... if you have one.' - George Bernard Shaw to
Winston Churchill
'Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend
second... if there is one.' - Winston Churchill, in response.
'I feel so
miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.' - Stephen
Bishop
'He is a self-made man and worships his creator.' - John
Bright
'I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial.' - Irvin S. Cobb
'He is not only dull himself, he is the cause
of dullness in others.' - Samuel Johnson
'He is simply a shiver looking
for a spine to run up.' - Paul Keating
'There's nothing wrong with you
that reincarnation won't cure.' - Jack E. Leonard
One of the major problems with your retirement, believe it or not, will be the inability to decide what makes you happy and what doesn't...
Doing more things that we want to do makes for a happier retirement life. Therefore, to make us happier, we have to minimise what we don't want to do and maximise what we want to do, in that order.
William S Jennings
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