TO RETIRE AND TO INSPIRE

It has been several years since I made the decision to retire early at 63. The date is now set for May 6, 2016. I have had a T-Zero countdown app running for the best part of the year but now I am below 60 days left and this thing is becoming real.

I have worked at the same hospital for 31 years as an Occupational Therapist primarily on the Psychiatric Unit there. I have led some 15,000 groups in that time and it has been my pleasure and honor to work with a wonderfully courageous set of people. Additionally, the staff that I have worked with has generally proven themselves to be a group of outstanding, caring professionals, and warm, open human beings.

So why is retirement so important to me? Mostly, I don’t like getting up at six in the morning every day and selling my body and my time to what has become more of a corporate entity over the years. I am hoping to find my own natural flow rather than succumbing to that which is “structured upon me.” Who knows what lurks beyond? 

I am getting ready to find out.