Sooner or later it all lines up – the job, the time, the planets – it all comes together and BINGO, its retirement. No BlackBerry, no looming deadlines, no job. And yes, this time has come yet again to the Carlson household, only this time to me.
Okay, so now what?
The party aside – which I might note was an awesome performance by Team Carlson – it was off to Hawaii with my child bride to decompress, attend to self-reflection of this road I’m headed, and provide time to return to healthy lifestyle. Although the agenda was full of activities the main effort focused on rest and transitioning to the new lifestyle. Coming from a career of high OPTEMPO, systems and processes to sustain this choice of life was the norm. Consequently, the work comes to adapting this means and direction to the transition was more from habit, but also the cause and effect of transition headaches.
The most helpful realization through this time is actually pretty simple – A new life means a new way of doing things.
And one last good thing about retirement is the unconstrained time and environment to post more on my blog site. As such, over the next couple of months will be an ongoing series of updates, commentary and whatever regarding my tour with the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps.
See you next time.
