{"id":2590,"date":"2019-08-21T19:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T02:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2019-08-21T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T02:16:16","slug":"the-mattering-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"The Mattering Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2349\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Dr. Nancy Schlossberg called it \u201cthe mattering test.\u201d In <em>Revitalizing Retirement<\/em>, she wrote, \u201cLeading a successful retirement is about much more than money. It\u2019s about feeling you matter, that you are and will be noticed and appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A psychologist who has written for the <em>New York Times<\/em> and <em>Wall Street Journal,<\/em> Schlossberg said if you matter, \u201cyou will be happy,\u201d and \u201cyou\u2019ll have a reason to get up in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t say I passed the mattering test in the first year of retirement, maybe not in the second, but starting my fourth year without classes at Amarillo College, I seem to have more reasons to get out of bed than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s the way it is with most retirees. Finding a new reason to matter does not come quickly nor easily. There are several false starts.<\/p>\n<p>But, as I argue in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Best-Yet-Be-Discovering-Retirement\/dp\/0578533790\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1561929553&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a>, a new purpose will come.<\/p>\n<p>Because if we don\u2019t find our calling, it usually finds us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nancy Schlossberg called it \u201cthe mattering test.\u201d In Revitalizing Retirement, she wrote, \u201cLeading a successful retirement is about much more than money. It\u2019s about feeling you matter, that you are and will be noticed and appreciated.\u201d A psychologist who has written for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Schlossberg said if you [&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-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","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=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}