{"id":2173,"date":"2017-01-13T20:22:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T03:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2017-01-13T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T03:25:05","slug":"retirement-as-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2173","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Is a Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2123\" \/><\/a>So I\u2019m over 200 days in and it turns out retirement is not a destination but a transition. Which, according to William Bridges (\u201cTransitions: Making Sense of Life\u2019s Changes\u201d), means it contains not only an ending but a beginning. In fact, the former is necessary for the latter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is, after all, the ending that makes the beginning possible,\u201d writes Bridges.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose these words help. In other life transitions (singlehood to married with kids, student life to a career, graduate study to teaching at Amarillo College) the new beginning has been well worth the pain of the ending.<\/p>\n<p>However, the scary thing about this transition is that the new phase (the beginning) is not so clear. Oh, I have dreams. But there are enough blank spaces in them to make me anxious.<\/p>\n<p>Or excited!<\/p>\n<p>***In tomorrow\u2019s blog I\u2019ll talk about the hardest part of transitions\u2014not the beginning nor the end but the in-between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I\u2019m over 200 days in and it turns out retirement is not a destination but a transition. Which, according to William Bridges (\u201cTransitions: Making Sense of Life\u2019s Changes\u201d), means it contains not only an ending but a beginning. In fact, the former is necessary for the latter. \u201cIt is, after all, the ending that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}