Name This Chapter

My next ladies lunch bunch has been given an assignment.  What would you name this chapter of your life?  I've been writing about "this chapter" in my blog, so that ought to be easy.  It might be easy, but it is quite a long chapter title, which goes something like this:  "Transitioning from always needing to accomplish to just being able to be happy".  That is my best summary of what I am in the process of learning to do--Giving myself permission to just enjoy, rather than being driven by some need to produce.

Other places where I have read about the various stages of life,  this particular one is usually named the Age of Wisdom.  The main theme, or task is being Aware.  The ages included in the Age of Wisdom run from 58-69.

I thought that I did prepare for retirement as best I could.  I kept a "retirement book".  Now that I look at the early entries, I can see that they were mostly all about a list of things I wanted to do.  A '"to do" list is woefully inadequate as a retirement plan.  Now I can see that the real challenges are quite different from checking off a list of things done.  I still keep "dream lists" but now they are mostly about what I hope to experience, feel, become, (with a small sprinkling of 'to do's).  Of course, there are still plenty of things that I do on a regular basis.  I am not sitting unoccupied.  But those things are all internally driven  (not have to's or should's).

Honestly,  I have come to really love and appreciate this life stage of Wisdom and Awareness.  I am also looking forward to the next one, which for the record,  is Peace, with the theme of Serenity.  Those are two things I have always longed to know intimately.  Now, I think I will.  It just takes time!