By Robert Margetic / October 7, 2009 --
Most of us have never retired before. This makes it hard to count on experience to figure out what to do. Role models are few and guide books confusing. Once retired, it takes months to realize we are not on an extended vacation but part of a new permanent lifestyle. In many ways entering retirement seems like traveling to a foreign country for the first time.
Although we can plan extensively for our journey, those plans rarely prepare us for the onslaught of walking out of a foreign airport and being immersed in the cacophony of the local culture. The pull and tug, the noise and loud voices beckoning us every which way can be disorienting.
Trepidation tempers our sense of excitement. But, if we know where we want to go and what we want to do, we can negotiate our way through the distractions and end up in where we want to be.
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