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
513 Milestones
Milestones indicate where we are in life and where we might go. They are important to consider in retirement. We may have to make them on our own. To do so requires some gumption.
00:06:51 |
Wed 22 Feb 2017
512 Grit
We all know how important it is to see a job through to the end. By the time we retire we should have learned the importance of perseverance and a passion for what we are doing. Challenges in retirem…
00:07:57 |
Wed 15 Feb 2017
511 Five Years Left
We don't know how much time we have left to live. Or how much time we have left where we can physically and mentally do almost anything we want. Age is continuously taking steps. How does this influe…
00:06:46 |
Thu 09 Feb 2017
510 Reconnecting
Catching up with old friends, co-workers, or old students is a most enjoyable experience. For me, it has been well worth the time and effort. Retirement offers time to slow down just a bit and reach …
00:05:47 |
Wed 01 Feb 2017
509 Having Value
A sense of having value in life is a basic need. We all want to be accepted as contributing to the general well being. Retirement provides a real test as to just how mature we have become. Our mind m…
00:06:38 |
Wed 25 Jan 2017
508 Politics and Persistence
When it comes to politics, we are all involved one way or the other. Right up until our dying day politics has a way of reaching out and being part of our lives. Some of us get involved with an idea …
00:07:07 |
Wed 18 Jan 2017
507 Neighbors
What kind of people live next door? We can live next to them for years and never know. Why is that? Sometimes we need to just reach out and extend a welcoming hand even if we have lived next to each …
00:06:13 |
Wed 11 Jan 2017
506 The Story
What do we remember? What can we pass along to our children, grandchildren and others? One thing about it: if we can't couch it in a story we might as well keep it to ourselves. Seems like the story …
00:07:56 |
Wed 04 Jan 2017
505 Failure
We all fail at one time or another. It doesn't ever seem very pleasant. But we usually get more from it than we think. Sometimes it can result in resounding success. Failure is not something we must …
00:07:43 |
Tue 20 Dec 2016
504 Bliss
What are you doing when you lose all sense of time? For some retirement is a time of indecision. We don't know what to do. What will bring us the most happiness?
00:06:28 |
Tue 13 Dec 2016
503 Biking
Biking has become an integral part of my retirement life. Lots of people do it. Why is that? What does it add? Could it become part of my life? Should it?
00:07:22 |
Tue 06 Dec 2016
502 Why Retire?
Ever wonder how people can think that way? Why don't they all think like me? Thoughts like these are misleading if not always far from the mark. It holds true for reasons of retire and most other thi…
00:07:46 |
Tue 29 Nov 2016
501 You Can Fix It
Things go wrong. Sometimes we get so discouraged we just walk away. Other times some of us just stay with it. Right to the bitter end. Or until that which is wrong gets righted. Most of the time we c…
00:06:14 |
Tue 22 Nov 2016
500 Happy Anniversary
We can never predict where retirement might take us any more than we could have predicted our life after leaving high school or college. The world changes around us and we had better "sit loose in th…
00:05:48 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
499 A Retired State of Minde
Is there such a thing as a "retired state of mind"? Do we see life a bit different than other segments of the population? Is there something about retirement that tends to tie us together as a group?…
00:07:32 |
Tue 08 Nov 2016
498 The Good Old Days
When problems arise it is always easy to lean back and yearn for the "good ol' days". It initiates an almost auto-acceptance as truth. Retired people have experiences which may reveal a different tru…
00:07:15 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
497 I Forgot
Sometimes we find ourselves living out a self-fulfilling prophecy. We hear about "Senior Moments" and think ours are on the increase. Perhaps we are only forgetting that forgetting is a way of life.
00:05:40 |
Tue 25 Oct 2016
496 Caregiver
Retirement is often accompanied by assuming the role of caregiver. Life calls us to care for someone who needs attention. We had best be prepared physically and psychologically for this demanding and…
00:07:54 |
Mon 17 Oct 2016
495 Ownership of Your Own Life
It is easy to follow the group. It is not easy to do exactly as you want. It is not easy to create your own way in life. We learn to go along with the group as a child. Retirement gives us a chance t…
00:06:48 |
Mon 10 Oct 2016
494 Look Around
Sometimes we need a reminder to open our eyes. We need to be reminded to look at what is right in front of us. Some of us see everything around us and others only what is directly in our path. We nee…
00:07:22 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
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