hot and cold states

hot and cold states

Dr. Daniel Gilbert in his book The Pursuit of Happiness, talks about hot and cold states. Our lives are made up of hot and cold states. What that means is that we are either down, on the way down, we are up or we are are going up. Our entire life is made up of being...

courage

  Toastmasters Speech #6 Title: Courage Delivered on February 27, 2018   “Courage. It couldn’t come at a worst time” Gord Downie I have entered the twilight of my teaching career. At forty-five years of age, I’m four years removed from early retirement,...

the illusion of retirement

  The very idea of retirement is now not only outdated, but outright barbarous. We have been preconditioned and desperately long for retirement. We all pine for the days when we don’t have to file into work anymore, into our real or imagined cubicles, to follow...

the lie

  Retirement is a myth.  More accurately, it is not a myth but a lie.  A lie we have come to believe and defend.  A lie that we can’t wait to share with each other. I believe there are only two human realities.  You are either alive, or...