-
Halimah Madeline Bellows
a book bubble about
Champion Your Career
Self-Help
Author Insight
Retire With Fire
We no longer want to “retreat” or “withdraw” into endless days of leisurely activities that yield little meaning or purpose. Many people in their 50’s and 60’s are looking for a kind of “renaissance,” to discover what gives their lives true meaning outside of their work life. Many consider travel abroad for pleasure, educational opportunities, or to better the world by volunteering at the different international agencies that are available. Others will volunteer locally to make a difference in social services with which they feel a kinship, both as a way to contribute and also as a way to stay connected to a larger community—a goal that is vital to anyone who wants to remain healthy throughout their retirement years.
Book Excerpt
Champion Your Career
Many men and women plan to keep working—for a variety of reasons—well into their late 60s and 70s. Some retirees will gradually leave the full-time workforce and decrease their hours for an employer. Some will choose to become consultants, working whenever and as much as they wish. Others will seek out educational opportunities to expand their knowledge or take up a new hobby, This chapter will help you retire successfully so that you can have a satisfying life after you leave the nine-to-five work-a-day world. To have a quality retirement, you need to incorporate the qualities and elements you would miss most from your work life as you enter into your retirement. You need to explore your interests and be ready to discover and experiment with new ways of thinking, behaving and engaging with others, based on your self-exploration. The questions and exercises in this chapter will help to stimulate a dialogue within yourself as well as between you and significant others so that you can extract new understanding about your needs and wants and gain a sense of what you would like to pursue in the future. The goal is for you to have the best possible retirement.For some people, they have actually become their jobs; their work has evolved to the point of defining who they are as a person. This restricted sense of who we are will hinder our sense of self-esteem as we move into the retirement years where work is less important or is no longer available to us. The question of “Who am I?” can no longer be largely defined by what we do. It becomes an exploration centered on our intrinsic values. This internalized search is usually not easy or familiar to most of us.
Amazon
Barnes&Noble
iBookstore
Kobo
Click Follow to receive emails when this author adds content on Bublish
Comment on this Bubble
Your comment and a link to this bubble will also appear in your Facebook feed.