Your Lifestyle Post Career

Flying in Freedom - 2021

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The Right Decisions Manifest Freedom

Perhaps you are at a point in your career that you can envision the transition to the next great phase of your life.

Your ideas and aspirations are becoming more clear. 

You are growing more confident that the dreams born of your imagination will become a reality. 

You have some concerns, yet your smile reflects joy of anticipation. 

You take a deep, deep breath that parallels the satisfaction you feel for what you have accomplished in life.

You feel the conviction deeply that you have earned the life that your aspire to live.

Well earned, well deserved!

A New Dawn for You

This is your time for dreaming, planning, executing and experiencing the emerging reality of it all. Amidst the excitement, it is also the time to apply the skills and wisdom you have developed over the course of your career to this very special time of your life.

You will probably experience a variety of profound feelings that coexist as you look forward to the future. A prominent example is about what is ending as well as what is beginning. You may feel a real sense of loss and associated grief, yet also experience relief for what will soon be in your personal rear view mirror. It is also common to feel joy of anticipation. This, too many coexist with a sense of anxiety about the upcoming unknown. It is natural to experience a combination of these.

“To Thine Own Self Be True”

So, how can you best deal with this and more?

In the course of your long career you have developed a variety of skills, experience and wisdom. They have enormous practical value as you apply them to the many choices you will need to make.

So, trust and be yourself.

The choices are many and sometimes may seem unrelated. But, for the most part, the choices you make and their consequences will commonly converge, like a funnel, to affect one experience of this major phase of your life.

That experience is your sense of freedom. 

More importantly, it is about your understanding and believing the degree to which you are now empowered to experience that freedom. To be more specific, your sense of how that freedom manifests itself in your life and that of your loved ones.

As you consider the many choices you will make, it’s critical to have a clear understanding of Who you are, your character. In a previous article, I discussed how this sense of Who you are is very different from What your career has been. 

It is also essential to have a clear conviction of your purpose in life and how it manifested itself in the past and will do so in your future.

Clarity and conviction about this will greatly empower you as you make important decisions.

This will have a direct, beneficial impact on your personal fulfillment, happiness and well-being.

The fullness of your life will directly impact the quality of life that your loved ones experience.

You will continue to be relevant to yourself and to others near and far as your successful example becomes a part of what they will someday model.

Your Freedom is Influenced by Your Choices

A prominent feature of your new freedom is the ability to choose how to use your time. It is inevitable that the opportunities you will have are legion, as are the requests people will make of you.

It will be very beneficial, indeed essential, for you to be consistent in considering the following as you make your daily decisions, both major and minor: 

It is as important to consider the impact of what to do as well as what not to do. 

Please remember that the cumulative impact of many minor decisions is, indeed, major. 

I encourage you to review my previous articles about these personal topics. They discuss matters that are critical to ensure your personal, ongoing success.

Updated: May 3, 2024

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