Retirement with Meaning: Recent Episodes

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This podcast announces my taking down the podcast as of July 14.  I have already switched to a Facebook group named Retirement and the Second Half of Life.

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Show Notes:

1. Spring: a Good Time to Be/Come Alive.
2. Mobilizing Your Energy for Second Half of Life Pursuits.
3. Tuning Up Your Brain with More Oxygen.
4. Increasing Blood  Flow to Your Brain with Aerobic Exercise.
5. Avoiding "Loafer's Heart."
6. The Many Benefits of Aerobic Conditioning.
7. Improving Your Health Helps Others Too.
8. Living Your Life in Ever Expanding Circles.
9. Energy for Becoming the Best Version of Yourself You Can Be.

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Show Notes:

1. What Toxic Shame Is.
2. How It Starts.
3. Defenses Elicited by Toxic Shame.
4. Impacts of Toxic Shame on Healthy Growth.
5. Impacts on Specific Second Half of Life Issues.
6. The Healing Path.
7. Keeping on Keeping On.

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Show Notes:

1. Keeping On Keeping On.
2. Questionable Messages from the First Half of Life.
3. What are You Doing with Your Experience and Wisdom?
4. Being Happy with Being.
5. Getting Moving.
6. Have a Heart.
7. The Best Way to Predict the Future.
8. Just for the Ladies.

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Show Notes:

1. Getting to What's Most Important to You.
2. Conscious Passage and Making Choices.
3. Sizing Your Involvement to You.
4. Keeping on Keeping On.
5. Importance of Being a Lifelong Learner.
6. Knowing, Growing and Sowing in the Second Half.
7. What One Person Gives to Another.
8. Youth as a State of Mind.

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1. Growing into Elderhood.
2. Spirituality and Elderhood.
3. Information to Transformation.
4. Cultivating the Power of Silence.
5. Taming the Ego.
6. Eldering: Taking Responsibility for One's Destiny.
7. Eldering: Giving Back.
8. Living Vitally in the Face of Suffering.

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1. The important spiritual shift from competition to cooperation.
2. The movement away from personal ego and ambition towards the common good.
3. The good, the bad and the ugly of competition.
4. Cooperation as a crucial survival tool.
5. Elders and the healing of the planet.
6. Old age as the culminating stage of spiritual development.
7. The most rewarding work of a lifetime: becoming a sage.

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1. The necessary shift from doing to being.
2. Moving into the spiritual.
3. Up with consciousness.
4. Shining the light inside.
5. When the first half no longer works.
6. Transitioning to the Second Half of Life.
7. Opportunities in the Second Half of Life.
8. No shift, no payday.

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Show Notes:

1. Learn the necessary "shifts" for the Second Half of Life.
2. Experience when work isn't work.
3. Learn "being."
4. Become the best version of you that you can be.
5. Take growth-oriented risks.
6. Have growing pains.
7. Experience anxiety as being alive.
8. Capitalize on the growth opportunities in the Second Half of Life.

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• Five simple but not easy points for using your anxiety to help you to grow.
• Growing you to reach retirement joy.
• Time to shed your old shell?
• Support: the gamechanger for moving from powerlessness to power.
• Improving the field.
• Why take the harder path to retirement joy?
• The many growth opportunities in the Second Half of Life.

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• The importance of the Second Half of Life principles in resolving your retirement concerns in order to create the retirement you want.
• A lesson from AA that the easier, softer way didn't work.
• The importance of personal change or growth in successfully navigating your retirement years.
• A true story of a woman who made a big change in a short time and its life changing results.
• Increasing your chances of creating the retirement you want.
• The importance of developing a new relationship with anxiety.
• The impact on your retirement of how you think about retirement.
• Anxiety will take you somewhere alive and growth oriented.  Depression won't.

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• Why anxiety is good news.
• Resolving retirement anxiety.
• The benefits of resolving retirement anxiety.
• A new relationship with anxiety: the key to personal growth.
• The classic push-pull involved in moving ahead.
• True story of a woman's victory over life crippling anxiety.
• Anxiety: the price of the the ticket to life.

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• Why we need a new approach in the Second Half of Life.
• Differences between the first and Second Half.
• Transitioning from the first to Second Half.
• Positive aspects of the mid-life crisis.
• Challenges of the Second Half of Life.
• Rewards of the Second Half of Life.
• Your personal growth as the key.

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• Awareness of decisions to be made.
• My basic approach to resolving retirement issues.
• The "Tyranny of Chronological Age."
• Importance of allowing yourself to still dream.
• The upside of mid-life crisis.
• The cure for exhaustion.
• Keeping on keeping on.
• Buying into this important work at the level you are ready for.
• Staying engaged with life.

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• The Second Half of Life is a golden opportunity for remaking meaning and purpose and living vitally.
• Stinking thinking can cloud or block the opportunity just as it can tell an addict there is nothing wrong, nothing needs done, so he misses getting into recovery and a healthy life.
• Stinking thinking excuses us from having to venture into the risky-feeling area of change.
• We end up with a push-pull dilemma where we can easily opt for safety instead of the vulnerability necessary for growth.
• At best, we can end up with information but not transformation.
• The challenge is to stay engaged with life rather than choosing the seemingly easier way.
• Support is very important.

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This podcast proposes a different approach to solving your retirement questions:

• The basic solution is change or growth in yourself or your approach.
• However, there is no growth without risk.
• Change, or the unfamilar, evokes discomfort in us.
• Retirement is a major change.
• Therefore, willingness to bear with uncomfortable feelings, even feeling vulnerable, is a prerequisite to resolving your retirement issues.