I spoke with a client today who is approaching retirement (he’s been considering the timing for a while). Now that he’s recovered from his battle with COVID and is helping his wife do the same, he is still feeling doubts and maybe even some guilt about walking away from his profession.
I offered that after a lifetime of focus on work and the pressures of all its requirements, why would he feel any differently? You don’t break forty years of habits in days or weeks or even a few months…it takes time.
Just as it takes times to create habits, it takes time to break them or to recreate new ones with new thoughts, new ideas and a new set of actions.
It’s not like turning a light switch.
I think retirement should come with a ladder, so we can all climb down off our own backs.
Give yourself a break…it takes time to rewire!
