Take our Positive Aging Test

Find a therapist specialized in aging concerns

Retirement can often present a crisis of meaning.

It is up to us to determine how we will embrace midlife and beyond.

Our choices are shaped by our inner perception of ourselves.

We are the ship that travels our life’s journey, our odyssey. Along the way, we encounter many adventures; some enjoyable, some challenging, some upsetting.

The phase of retirement and our corresponding older years represent a time where we are faced with new challenges. It is up to us to determine how we will embrace this new phase: growing, evolving, and actualizing our potential; or instead, stagnating, complaining, and even ending up further adrift or shipwrecked.

Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, taught us the importance of asking questions to raise our awareness of our thinking patterns, to uncover our biases, assumptions, and blocks, and importantly, to see the direction and consequences of our current thinking.

10 "Meaning Questions"

Here are 10 "Meaning Questions," derived from my research in MEANINGology, designed to stimulate your deeper understanding of yourself as you prepare for, hopefully, a happy and very fulfilling future:

Our choices are shaped by our inner perception of ourselves. Do you........

© Psychology Today