As I transition into my new season of life – retirement –I am
discovering many different aspects on this new journey. I am not as busy as I was; getting ready for
work, going to work, working, then coming home from work, getting dinner on the
table, and then going brain dead in front of the tube or catching up on
housework in the evening, just to get up the next morning and do it all over
again.
I am discovering I actually have time to think and to
feel. To think through ideas, ponder thoughts,
remember memories. I have time to truly sense
what took place, what I heard, what I saw, what I touched, what I smelled, what
I tasted, what I felt. Maybe when our
lives are not so focused on what must be accomplished, how many widgets must be
produced, how many sales calls we must make, etc. then the senses that have
been suppressed by the “doing” actually are reborn to start experiencing life.
Whoever quoted, “Take time to stop and smell the roses”
understood the importance of experiencing life rather than living life. They grasped that relationships become more
important than accomplishments.
For years in the “working” arena of my life I was a human
resource director. And what I found to
be true over and over again is that people became disgruntled with their work,
not because of not meeting goals or lack of accomplishment, they became disgruntled
with bad working relationships. This
attitude usually resulted in a termination, whether they quit or were
fired. The bad working relationships led
to bad attitudes which resulted in undesirable behaviors in the work
force.
Today I will smell the roses…
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