Many of us look to our retirement as a possible renewal; however we may falter in our attempts to decide what our most significant aims are — our interests, our motivations, what results will satisfy us and our loved ones. We know that we would like to focus our legacy, our own understanding of what is valuable to us — our life, our contribution — but we are not sure how to create out of that a plan for our future. This blog is dedicated to creating a community of people who can be resources in analyzing each others’ gifts and clarifying steps to enhance their future.

We begin by exploring times in our lives when we have operated at our peak. Time flew by — we were so engaged with what we were doing that we lost all track of time. We call that experience “flow” and the concept is based on the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who first described it in a way that was useful for Western readers. I have found over many years of helping people access their most creative selves that by analyzing memories when we have been in a state of flow, we can establish rich sources of information about our most creative states. What were we doing; how were we doing it; what, in retrospect did it mean to us and what made it so special?