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It’s what you retired to that matters

History is important but when you retire, your old way of life is history. What you used to be doesn’t matter anymore. You can’t go back and live it again – even if you want to. So, what have you……

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February 6, 2023 - 10:13 am February 6, 2023Doing LIfe Difference, direction, disappointment, example, family, feelings, God, happiness, relationships, retired men, retirement activities, thankfulness, trust 0

Getting Unstuck

Designing Your Life The Stanford University in the USA has a course called “Designing your life.” It seems to have come from asking student what they planned to do next in their life and getting too many “I really don’t……

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January 2, 2023 - 11:42 am January 2, 2023Doing LIfe, Our World Difference, direction, disappointment, example, family, feelings, God, happiness, relationships, retired men, thankfulness, trust 0

Hidden Secrets in the Bible

There are many secret things hidden in the original languages of the bible that we can’t see in our English translations no matter how hard we look

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November 15, 2022 - 4:45 pm November 15, 2022Doing LIfe happiness, Purpose 0

Need some good advice?

Where can you go for good advice? There are many people offering you good advice on everything from money to living your life and even snake oil. But where can you find something that makes sense and is true? Throughout……

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March 7, 2022 - 12:50 pm March 8, 2022Doing LIfe Advice, better, Bible, happiness, joy, life, living well, retired men, Sermon on the mount 0

The Great Retirement Crisis

The Research Says… Research amongst baby boomer, suggest we are heading towards a retirement crisis that, despite what Superannuation advertising tells us, will make the issue of running out of money, insignificant by comparison. Many of us have high expectations……

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February 14, 2022 - 3:45 pm February 14, 2022Doing LIfe divorce, happiness, marriage, relationships, retired men, statistics 0

Learn to be happy again

I could study to be a psychologist. I’m not a psychiatrist or even a psychologist but the optimist inside me tells me I could be in about 10 years time. Trouble is, statistically I’d only have a year or two……

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January 24, 2022 - 8:17 am January 24, 2022Doing LIfe, Health happiness, happy, optimism, pessimism, retired men, Seligman 0

Looking Forward to the Future

The Main Question How can you retire and not have your whole world collapse? There are lots of reasons to be glum about retirement but it is really possible to look forward to the future with joy and hope and……

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December 27, 2021 - 11:35 am December 27, 2021Doing LIfe courses, curiosity, happiness, life, network, Personality, retired men, social, spouse 0

Fathers Day

On 4th September 1936 the Newcastle Herald wrote… A new day for the Calendar is “Father’s Day,” September 6. Mothers’ Day has become very popular, and maybe “Father’s Day” will also become so, too! It seem like that has indeed happened.……

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August 23, 2021 - 9:12 am August 23, 2021Doing LIfe, Health blessing, celebrating, children, father, fathers day, happiness, kids, positive improvements 0

How to Stop Becoming a Grumpy Old Man

How to Stop Being a Grumpy Old Man One issue people of any age need to learn how to manage is their grumpiness. But this is especially true as we get older because there is a constant temptation to become……

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June 22, 2021 - 10:35 am June 22, 2021Doing LIfe, Health anxiety, grumpy, happiness, health, leaving a legacy, mental health, mental hygene, mindfulness, motivated. thankful, retired, sad, significance, thinking 0

The New Year Time Machine

The Moment Your Life Changed. If I ask you to think back on a moment that changed your life, some of you will think about the day you lost your job, or the day a relationship ended, or the day……

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December 28, 2020 - 10:02 am December 28, 2020Doing LIfe change, direction, happiness, Happy New Year, incidentals, outcomes, profound, providence, retired men, time, Time machines 0
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