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From Bob Irish, retirement expert, Palm Beach Research Group: About six months into my retirement, my uncle and aunt came to visit.
I admire my uncle. So I asked his thoughts on retirement.
“The best thing about retirement is waking up knowing you can do anything you want to,” he said. “The worst thing, for many people, is exactly the same thing.”
In an essay Mark wrote years ago, he put it this way:
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Some people, who have had meaningful careers, retire with the hope of finding bliss in leisure but then find that leisure has given them a life without meaning. They feel lost. But there is no reason ever to live a single day without purpose. |
When I was working, my goals were clearly defined: Build my business. Pay off the mortgage. Fund my children’s college educations. Save money for retirement.
These goals motivated me. And because I enjoyed the work I was doing—and, most of the time, did it well—I felt like my life had purpose.
But I never considered that the leisure activities I had planned for retirement might not give me that same feeling of purpose. I never even realized purposefulness was such a huge part of satisfaction in my life.
How could I find the purposefulness my retirement was missing?
Mark’s writings helped me solve this problem:
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You can’t achieve happiness by trying to be happy. You can’t have a quality life when all you are doing is taking care of yourself. The secret to living well is to pay attention to things and people outside of you. Only by looking outward can you find inward peace. |
I made a decision to incorporate “outwardly” focused activities into my life.
I got involved with a local charity I admired. I took this gig with Palm Beach Research Group. I helped my brother launch a very cool business.
Sure enough, I started to feel a lot better about my life.
The point is when retirement is all about pleasing yourself, it’s not the pleasure trip you imagined. You must, as Mark says, replace meaningful career activities with other meaningful activities… while leaving yourself plenty of leisure time.
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