Tag: Retire

Computers often leave you with simple, clear choices

Office supplies for the professional speaker

 

(photo: Yesterday… big events require lots of support.)

How do we thrive while navigating scary once-in-a-lifetime milestones?

There is a process for everything.

And when a process is brand new to you, you do the very best you can to follow it. Even if you are not crystal clear.

So…

The only person at work who knows he’s retiring is his boss.

He gave 25 days notice on October 7 (two days ago).

The career end date was driven by a computer generated benefits commencement date.

November 1, 2014 is the first official, legitimate, system supported opportunity.

He took it.

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Walt Disney World Main Entrance (and Exit)

Walt Disney World main entrance

 

In a few days the annual performance appraisal process is finalized for FY 2014.

Very few people feel they are appropriately paid.

A widespread phenomenon.

Do you feel you are?

Exactly.

That’s the point.

This perpetuates itself because what are we going to do, leave?

Pffft.

No, of course not.

Final answer?

Yes, that’s a question not an exclamation.

What is peace and contentment?

The positioning to be able to walk away.

To plan in a deep, rational, profound way.

For a higher calling.

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Satisfaction is dangerous

Portland Memorial Coliseum

 

(photo: yesterday’s ‘office’)

Satisfaction is dangerous.

Because satisfaction only meets needs.

It never exceeds expectations.

We like when our expectations are exceeded.

Don’t we?

Some retire because they can’t wait to quit working.

Some retire because they can’t wait to begin on a higher calling.

Quite possibly even more work than they’ve ever done before.

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Nothing makes dreams happen faster than these four things

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Am I wrong?

 

Tonight a friend retires at age 55.

How will the people gathered there to celebrate feel about her age?

Happy and ecstatic for her?

Bitter or jealous it’s not them?

We can wish and we can hope, but nothing makes dreams come true faster than these four things:

  1. Vision
  2. Focus
  3. Discipline
  4. Patience

How can we know for sure?

Guessing our friend doesn’t know for sure, but she’s willing to move forward anyway, with a disproportionately greater sense of hope than the average.

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