Retirement Revelation
Retirement revelations are priceless. In a short time, you can reinvent yourself, anytime you choose, and retirement is a great time to make that choice.
Every day, you can decide who you want to be and how you want to feel. When you have time independence, there is an urgency to decide to reinvent yourself.
What is Revelation?
A revelation is dramatically making known a surprising or unknown fact. It can come from within (something your gut tells you) or outside your conscious (unconscious) mind. It can be a religious or spiritual gift but doesn’t need to be.
Revelation is a daily event. Maybe you didn’t have a perfect day yesterday (and almost certainly I did not), but, this morning, re-commit to the principles by which you live. It is a daily revelation.
Forgive yesterday’s “failures” which are the inability to live up to standards that were important yesterday. Instead, reseat intentions for today. Be, do and act better. We all have the power to choose a retirement revelation. Daily. Or more frequently than that!
What is a Retirement Revelation?
Today, right now, you can choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and it is a moral obligation.
If you can choose to be happy or unhappy in retirement? What are you waiting for?
Define your history in any way you want. History is not set in stone; it is interpreted through a lens. You can choose your history and the meaning it has to you. You can choose to be spiritual or religious.
Me? Honestly, ask me what it takes to have a retirement revelation and I had no idea that was a choice. I thought you needed to be religious. The truth: revelations are a choice as well.
My revelation came when I stopped asking questions and listened for the answers. Seeking the “right question” to unlock God. When I listened for the answer rather than asking the question.
How will I know when I have surrendered?
When you no longer need to ask the question. ~The Power of Now
Here is the retirement revelation: you can decide what stuff means to you.
Die to the Past Every Moment
Die to the past every moment ~Eckhart Tolle
Because each moment is here and then gone, there is no past and no future. Both are experienced in the moment, the now, or the present. You cannot go back in time; you can only interpret what your past experiences meant to you at the time and mean to you now. But you do that in the present.
Just like there is no future, there is only anxiety based on past experiences. And depression, similarly, is future plans that have failed based on past expectations. Since neither is real, you can die to the past every moment and live this moment fresh. You can choose depression or anxiety, or not.
I have a revelation that retirement is what I make of it. I can make it great, or it can be full of depression and anxiety. Or shame and burnout. The only way I decide is right now, in this very second. The only currency I have to interact with the world is right now. A collection of right nows is a day, a week, and a year.
But you have to live every moment. Have a revelation every morning. Intend to enjoy every moment, even the mundane ones, while sparking joy tidying or brushing your teeth. You can either enjoy it or not; it is your choice.
All things build from the start. Why not spark joy in the moment? Start intending to do so, then fill your day with activities that make it so. You will fail, which is just fine. Forgive yourself and have a retirement revelation tomorrow, too.
