If I had ten bucks for every time I’ve been asked some variation of that question just in the first two weeks ………                                               The phrase I’ve included in my answer most of the time is, “I’m in awe of it.”                                                                                                                                   I think that it’s because it so clearly feels like the reward for the long trail that has been my work life.  It has been countless days of trying to make the sale, working to land the new account, plowing new operational ground, problem solving, counseling, teaching, and occasionally stealing someone else’s best Customer Service person. 🙂

Now everything has a newness to it.  You get to reset all your possibilities.  The gift of time has a luster.  It is in fact the currency of retirement.  I’m confident I will treat it accordingly and I know I will thank God for it every day.

It seems like I’ve already spent a lot of time thinking about the slippery slopes of retirement.  You begin to face them almost immediately and they all have to do with choices and time.

I’m an early riser and to this point more than half of the days of my retirement have started with morning mass and then right to the Y for a workout.  Funny, those are the days that seem to turn out the best.

I could go on and on about some of this stuff but my sense is that there is such a thing as a post that’s too long.  Undoubtedly some of it will creep in to future posts.  In the meantime, you can be confident that the answer to the question is, … really, really keen.