Feeling at odds with expectations

People are funny. Everybody seems to think I feel ecstatically happy to be retired from my software engineering job. I’m happy in my mind… But feelings are different. There’s a bit of a feeling of letdown, of an emptiness left behind by something big that is not in my life any more.
Fortunately for me, I’ve [...]

Getting started …

I retired from IBM yesterday. There are many people that I will miss, but I’m ready to move on to the next phase of my life. Career? Maybe. I’m exploring ways to take the science of positive psychology and turn it into pragmatic actions that people can do themselves in order to flourish, especially on [...]