At 77 years of age, a dear friend, a therapist no less, continues to work herself half to death. She admits to fearing retirement. I am trying, she says. But it’s hard.
My question for her consideration:
💖Why all or nothing?💖
How about, each month, cutting back an hour a day, and see how that goes🙂🔆🌻
As you would tell me—change is hard. So is accepting advanced age. Right now, change and advanced age are one and the same. Maybe you’re afraid of what retirement suggests in terms of this fourth stage of life.
Working like crazy doesn’t stop this fourth stage of life from knocking at your door. The truth of the matter is, the door has already opened, and we’ve already walked through it 👩🏼❤️👩🏻
If you can imagine yourself having walked through that door, where all of us are welcoming you to relax and embrace these golden years while your good health remains intact, fear may relax, creating space in your mind for seeds of gratitude concerning your good health to feel self-nourished enough to ripen. 👩🏼❤️👩🏻
Let’s consider this deeper truth: You can’t TRY to reduce your working hours.😘
Each month, you can CHOOSE to work one hour less a day or not. Month by month, the choice is yours 👩🏼❤️👩🏻
My dear friend’s response: You speak the truth. I need to listen❤️
My closing thoughts:
If you feel younger and healthier after working to exhaustion then I’ll close my stand for today and go hassle Charlie Brown🙋🏻♀️😘
We can’t TRY to pick up a pencil. We CHOOSE to pick it up or we don’t.
🙋🏻♀️🌈🔆🌻Annie
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