Retirement is not a time give away your power, or to give up on your passions, far from it, it can be a time to renew old enthusiasms and discover new and rewarding directions to take. For all of us there are certain transition points in life when so much changes that it can be really helpful to take a step back and reassess the direction we are going in. Retirement is one of those transition times. It's both a time of closure and of new openings.