Don t waste your remaining years living out someon…

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Don't waste your remaining years living out someone else's retirement. When I first retired, I was constantly thinking, man, that dude's retired. He stays busy. He's cranking along. He's working hard. Good! That's his retirement, not mine. And what I found was, I was trying to live the retirement of someone else. And the real tragedy of that is, for most of us, retirement is our first opportunity to live life on our own terms. And what do we do? We turn around and live it on the terms of a past life. Or we live it on the terms of someone else's retirement. What we need to do in retirement is set our new terms. We need to say, okay, that was the old life. That's how it was lived. I'm going to set new terms for my retirement, and I'm going to live on my terms. I'm not going to live someone else's retirement. I'm not going to live a new retirement. I'm not going to, and I use the term a lot, performative retirement. I'm not going to perform in some play of what a retirement should look like. If someone else wants to work 50 hours a week in their retirement, good. If that makes them happy. But I'm going to live my own retirement. And the first thing you need to do if you're going to live your own retirement is you need to set those terms. What are the terms of my new retirement? And decide. You get a pick. It's easy, I know, to say, but for me, it's taken these two years to decide that living someone else's retirement is just extending an old life that I was so eager to get out of and move into the retirement life. So decide what are going to be the terms of my retirement. Live by those. Don't live out someone else's retirement. Good luck. Subtitles by the Amara.org community