Corporate Departure Riff to Retirement March 20th, 2023.

 

Sketchbook circles - appropriate, I think for where I am at.  I declared my intention of being riffed into retirement and it happened. 

Objectives or intentions declared can be powerful.   

I do not miss work, have been concerned about having enough cash, but I am managing and "watching".  Of course, who knows, if RHH will put a kink into my careful planning or monitoring.  

During this time I repeat "words" and slogans to help me stay focused and to remind me to "empty" my mind of junk.

Compassionate self care is my primary focus right now.  Pausing.  I used to say breathe - but taking a pause is a more active choice.  I intend to pause.

Pausing means to practice deep listening.  Not talking.  Being open to being empty and receptive.  Restoration in luminous darkness.  (I remember during work life traveling, sitting in the dark, quite early in the morning before the work day began, drinking coffee (sometimes bad coffee) and just "sitting" in the dark.

Even looking back the image, experience makes me feel restored.  Safe, observant. 

I am snapped back to now - and repeat, no matter what the circumstances, respond with kindness.  My current reality demands a forgiving, loving (self love and love to rhh) way of being.