It's not impossible: my hopey, changey retirement plan

I admire people who, at a very early age, glimpsed their destiny and pursued it with passion and persistance -- built their visions into a life and career. I've known a few people like that. But I wasn't one of them. Oh, I had plenty of visions but little faith. Best stay on the well-trod path, I thought, to avoid the rejection and failure that comes with blazing your own trail.

Well, time marches on. I'm retired now. I had a challenging and (mostly) satisfying career. Except that, looking back, I see I didn't make enough room for my own vision. So, now I enter retirement with a vision backlog. And that unrequited vision refuses to be put off any longer. It won't let me just pick up a golf club and enjoy life. No, either I deal with my vision or it'll kill me. Mean little thing, eh?

Anyway, they say retirement is clean slate, a new beginning, and this time around it's going to be different. I'm on a mission and critics be damned, especially my inner critic.

My late-bloomer vision is to study and write about positive change. Why? Because I have a life-long passion for writing. Also because, in this day and age, the universe of potential change is an enormous and murky battleground that we all need a little help navigating.

Anyway, here I go, into that "good night" tweeting, blogging, writing articles, and writing books.