| Retirement is a time of transition. You may be | | | | picture was it? Of course things are very different |
| dreading it or looking forward to it. It is a time to | | | | these days, or are they? |
| re-assess your life. A time to come to terms with the | | | | Maybe you chose to retire before the statutory |
| fact that you no longer have forever to achieve what | | | | retirement age. Maybe you were made redundant. |
| you want. It's about coming to terms with your own | | | | Perhaps a health issue forced you into taking early |
| ageing and eventual mortality. | | | | retirement. Or perhaps you decided to leave Medicine |
| It is a time to recognise what you can and can't do. But | | | | to satisfy a life long yearning to do something entirely |
| that doesn't mean it's a depressing time, or a time to sit | | | | different, perhaps something creative which you feel |
| back and fall into heap in the corner. | | | | you could now do because you've earned enough to |
| Not a time to raise your hands and drop your head in | | | | cover your day to day needs for the next part of |
| a resigned sort of a way and do absolutely nothing. No | | | | your life. It's challenging and sometimes a bit scary to |
| it is a time to recognise the changes that will happen | | | | enter into any new phase of life and dealing with |
| when you stop your working as a doctor, whatever | | | | transition and change may have it's ups and downs. |
| your age. Years ago retirement was the end of the | | | | Hence the reason for this book. When you are |
| road. You would have a party at work, be given a | | | | preparing for retirement and the change it brings, it |
| clock and good wishes from your work colleagues | | | | helps if you are fully prepared for the emotional roller |
| and be sent off to laze about and do nothing. There | | | | coaster you may experience. |
| would be jokes about wishing they too could spend all | | | | I want you to know how to transform your life for the |
| day in bed of in front of the telly and that would be it. | | | | better so that you realise and recognise that |
| You would probably have done exactly that, eaten too | | | | retirement is not the end of the road at all but the |
| much, maybe drunk too much, exercised too little and | | | | opening up of new opportunities. |
| eventually come to an early end. Not very happy | | | | |