Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees
Retirement Talk is an audio podcast intended to help people who are retired, or considering retirement, to examine their own lives. We will consider retirement in all its facets - not just financial. We want to examine our own lives and those of others, who seem to have looked closely, made choices, and are pretty happy with the consequences We want to encourage thought and action.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 833
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
535 What Money Can't Buy
Retirement is about more than money. Choices need to be made concerning money. But there are many decisions that do not concern financial and investment issues. We need to think about these.
00:08:11 |
Sun 30 Jul 2017
534 Advanced Directive
Life ends for all of us. We all want to die without pain if we can. Medical Directives allow our best chance to do that. Our view of death is usually formed via television. It is so very misleading. …
00:08:00 |
Sun 23 Jul 2017
533 Who We Are
We want to know about our parents history. We want to know about our grandparents history. We need to share our stories with younger members of the family. It does them good and it also helps us revi…
00:09:27 |
Sun 16 Jul 2017
532 Would've, Could've, Should've
We don't want to look back on our lives with the classic, "Would've, Could've, Should've" thought taking up residence in our minds. And we certainly don't want to go into retirement and create even m…
00:06:42 |
Sun 09 Jul 2017
531 Stuck
Sometimes we just find ourselves stuck one way or the other. We just can't get on with our life. Retirement can become that way without some effort and thought. We need to engage the mind before we b…
00:07:22 |
Sun 02 Jul 2017
530 Reading for Pleasure
Reading allows the mind to wander uninhibited. It allows us expand our view of everything in the universe. Retirement allows us the good fortune to maximize this pleasure. We need to be aware of it t…
00:07:40 |
Mon 26 Jun 2017
529 Regrets
Regrets accumulate as we move through life. We have all uttered the words , "If I could just do that over". Retirement brings time to either deal with the regrets in a positive fashion or get buried …
00:08:05 |
Sun 18 Jun 2017
528 Limits
We know that we have limits in life. Sometimes we don't know what those limits are and when they may no longer be valid. Retirement life brings some new limits into our life. Being aware of these lim…
00:07:50 |
Sun 11 Jun 2017
527 Finding Meaning (Part 2)
In retirement we are as free as we have ever been to become the person we have always dreamed of being. We can examine the life we have led and the life we would like to create. We may bring this uni…
00:08:36 |
Sun 04 Jun 2017
525 Watch Your Step
We all get a bit careless at times. When we move into retirement it is time we need to consider this carefully when it comes to falling. We might be okay to fall in love again but just plain falling …
00:05:55 |
Fri 19 May 2017
524 Lifelong Learning via a Bus
I swore I would never get on a bus with a bunch of older people. Then I did. Here is the story. It is also a story about Lifelong Learning as presented through a university. Something I thought I wou…
00:09:16 |
Sat 13 May 2017
523 Never Too Old To Change
We can always change. Retirement brings us the opportunity to realize that in a big way. We just have to want it. We must rid ourselves of the old adage, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." That…
00:06:59 |
Sat 06 May 2017
522 How Little It Takes
Retirement offers us a chance to consider life more closely than when we are busy with work. One thing most of us find that it takes a little less to make us happy. We can jettison lots of ideas and …
00:07:10 |
Sat 29 Apr 2017
521 Looking Ahead
Entering retirement is like entering a new land. We can play it safe and stay where everyone else does. Or, we can use our imagination and venture out into the areas we have never explored. The choic…
00:07:37 |
Sat 22 Apr 2017
520 Road Trip
Taking a road trip seems to be high on the list of most of us whether we are retired or not. Here is a short podcast of the methods and habits that have proven valuable to us on several such ventures…
00:09:16 |
Sat 15 Apr 2017
519 Winners and Losers
One thing about getting older: we have all experienced winning and loosing at one thing or another. That is a good thing, Because we are not done. We learn to roll with the punch, get better prepared…
00:05:47 |
Sat 08 Apr 2017
517 Meditation
Retirement is a perfect time to venture into some experiences for which we never had time. Meditation seems to be all the rage right now. Of course it has been around for centuries. I never thought i…
00:06:36 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
516 Let It Go
Age has a way with each of us. We have our day. Then we need to let go gracefully. Not easy but important. Retirement is a time for letting go. We can then move on: one way or another.
00:07:20 |
Thu 16 Mar 2017
515 Rugged Individualism and Politics
Rugged individualism is embedded into our culture. We want the individual to succeed. We also want our government to succeed. Our government demands that we cooperate with each other. The word "We" b…
00:08:13 |
Wed 08 Mar 2017
514 Golden
Sometimes we meet people who make their mark in our mind. Golden was one such for me. He lived life with vigor. We might all do as well.
00:07:43 |
Wed 01 Mar 2017
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