Retirement: Expectations VS Reality (Spoiler Alert)
I used to think retirement looked like:
• Sitting on a tropical beach
• Spending time with your wife and kids
• Time for travel and adventures
But talking to many disillusioned retirees through the years,
I have come to the conclusion that it actually looks like:
• Being bored out of your mind because you forgot what you actually enjoy
• Your spouse is used to ‘a life without you’ because you were working the whole time.
Your kids only remember you working late and have moved on to build their own lives (without you)
• Your body is exhausted and you’re 15+kg overweight.
Adventures aren’t as much fun, as your friends gave up on you 15 years ago
No more counting down to retirement.
Sadly counting down to the next, ultimate ‘deadline.’
Doesn’t sound too appealing, does it?
Not really the satisfaction you expected from working over 45 years.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
The lesson here:
Build a life you don’t need (or even want) to retire from.
A life of Total Wealth.
Not just Money.
Money was never Wealth.
It’s doing things you enjoy, with people that you like, for as long as you want.
How?
In 2009 I decided:
The way I make money supports my Lifestyle, not the other way around.
1 Decision.
Lifetime of regret avoided.
• Re-balance your time: Focus on what is important to you
• Invest in your relationships in your 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond
• Spend time doing what you love with people you enjoy
• Keep fit and active
Are you counting down to retirement?
Or are you building a life you never need to retire from?
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