Goodbye to Work

Welcome to my new blog which I decided to start on my first real day of retirement. So I’m not a ‘retiree’, I’m a ‘lifestyle blogger’! I will post thoughts here that will help myself and others navigate this period that is filled with so much incredible potential.

Goodbye to Work

Since I am so new to this status as a non worker, I will include a complex diagram I made a while back to navigate the pitfalls of work. You see there is a breakthrough space at the top that I have achieved via a recent retirement! But even before breakthrough, the diagram points to the importance of looking for positives. Work is like everything – full of contrasts where the dark and light sides compete and it is the individuals’ responsibility to make the most of it! The Abraham-Hicks Emotional Guidance Scale that shows up in the center of the diagram was a key survival tool for my best friend at the office and myself. If we noticed ourselves going over to the left we worked to push ourselves over to the scale on the right. Survival came down to living this work life we had as a kind of game. As philosopher Alan Watts puts it, life “must be lived in the spirit of play rather than work, and the conflicts which it involves must be carried on in the realization that no species, or party to a game, can survive without its natural antagonists, its beloved enemies, its indispensable opponents.” I’m not sure who the natural antagonists will be at this next stage, but I am grateful for the experience gained that will help me move forward no matter what is encountered!