Passion Never Retires: The New Retirement Story (1)

Retirement at age 65 is an artificial finish line that no longer fits our time.

More than 15 years ago, I started to talk and write about a new retirement story. Launched the Passion Never Retires project. Inspiring people to create a life and work they love and never want to retire from. To change the story about retirement from one focused solely on money to one focused on creating a life and work you love and never want to retire from.

Love the quote of Ernest Hemingway. Who called the word 'retirement' the filthiest word in the language. When you do what you love, be what you are, why retire from that?

In this series within 'Stories That Can't Wait' I will tell you about 'The New Retirement Story". Discuss the confluence of four modern trends that herald the end of the old retirement story as we know it:

1. The evolving pursuit of fulfillment in our times.
2. The end of the paternalistic employer.
3. The advent of dismantling ageism.
4. Distribution-driven Armageddon for financial services.

Growing old with lots of money is no longer the goal. Dying rich can’t compete with living rich, and making a living doesn’t measure up to making a life. When the idea of retirement was born, people traded physical capital for a paycheck—and it was a practical necessity for people to retire. As a knowledge-based economy, intellectual capital, experiential capital, and relational capital are traded for a paycheck, leaving only one question to answer regarding the appropriate time to retire:?What is the expiration date on my intellectual capital and on my experience??What those people still working in their 70s and even 80s will tell you is that they would be dead if they had not continued to engage their intellectual faculties.

Readers will understand the characteristics of the new retirement story:

1. Passion: If you don’t use you your body or your brain in your creative life and work, you lose them.
2. Purpose: Money can fund purpose, but it cannot create purpose.
3. Portfolio: There needs to be a balance between vacation and vocation.
4. Power:?A powerful story they tell themselves which gives them every day the energy to embark on physical, intellectual, and entrepreneurial adventures. Which are the hallmarks of those who continue to thrive as they age.

I want readers to create their own retirement story in which they find answers to the following questions:

1. How will you spend your time? You have 168 hours a week; how will you make those hours meaningful?
2. How will you invest yourself? How will you parlay what you know, what you’ve experienced, and who you are into the next phase of your life?

?You want to know more about The New Retirement Story? Contact me at [email protected]