I have finally retired from my extremely stressful, extremely time-consuming job and now I’m looking around at all the things I’ve wanted to do but didn’t have the energy to do in the last few years.
Blogging is one of those things. I love to write and even if it turns out to be just a journal for me, I want to get back into the habit.
For instance just to get to this post it took me almost an hour to figure out how to login, then do all the updates I’ve been neglecting and now that I’m finally here figure out what I want to say. Since this blog is about my Random Life, I guess I can say anything I want to on any subject that interests me at the moment.
Retirement is what interests me at the moment. And how to suddenly live an unstructured life. I keep finding myself trying to give it structure, making lists, trying to take care of everything at once, getting depressed because I can’t seem to accomplish the simple task of having fun.
That’s my new quest – how to live in the moment. This takes me to my three life-long goals which I established in my 30’s more than half of my life ago.
- Use My Mind
- I’ve always done fairly well at this. I’m curious, have a good imagination, many interests. I want to know more about everything. I don’t see that diminishing in this new phase of my life. I have more time to read now. I’m trying to mix it up with some non-fiction and some fiction, and divide the fiction between just-for-fun and the classics.
- Enjoy Life
- This is the most troublesome to me. You would think this would be easy, but I honestly don’t know how to relax, other than distracting myself with tv or my favorite video game. This is the single area I need to figure out most. I’m always in the mode of what should I be doing now, so it’s really difficult to try to switch to what do I want to do now.
- Maintain Financial Security
- Not rich by any means, but I have done well enough here to allow my husband and I to go into retirement unafraid. I enjoy financial learning and research but this is an area I have not spent enough time in during the last couple of years and now I suddenly have even more financial accounts to manage. Doing okay so far, but got to make sure I don’t let this one slip out of control.
Well, that’s it for today. Back to my mindless video game.