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Retirement – A Second Chance

Retirement – A Second Chance
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Backstory – Retirement

Looking around at retired friends, I marveled at how active and involved they are.  No rocking chair sitters, these.  Taking a better look, I thought about what an opportunity retirement is to reinvent yourself. That thought inspired this week’s show.

Consider This Show – Second Chance

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Second Chance –  #621

You know what’s great about retirement? It gives you a second chance at having an authentic life.

Thank goodness baby boomers are strong and healthy, well into their sixties, seventies and even their eighties – something our grandparents could not even wish for.  They were tired at 50 and spent at 60.  That’s not the case today.

So when folks retire, they have a second chance to have an authentic life, if it didn’t work for them the first time around.  And they have the wisdom of experience, to enhance their success.

I have many friends who are enjoying a new authentic life, since retirement.

  • A non-profit executive from NYC – opened a flower shop in California, something she had always wanted to do.
  • A retired nurse became a care-giver.
  • A retired public speaker started writing a 90 second radio show. You’re listening to it right now.
  • A physicist started studying the Russian language. He traveled to Moscow to test his linguistic skills.  There he found access to opera and ballet at the price of a box lunch in NYC. He keeps going back for more.

Whether your work life was authentic or not, in retirement, you could start out on a new path, if you want. 

Psychologist Carl Jung told us, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”   And life after retirement offers that privilege, a second time around.

[Show #621]

Filed Under: Getting Older, Inspiration/Life Lessons, Lifestyle, Podcast Episodes Tagged With: retirement, second chance

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  1. Cathie Taylor says

    April 15, 2018 at

    Thank you Annette. Bob and I are just enjoying helping others through volunteering and just enjoying each other. Praying for the Lord’s will to be done in our later years. Blessings

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    • Annette Petrick says

      April 18, 2018 at

      As in love with each other as you two are, you had no need to reinvent yourselves. Your theory is more like what I wrote about in “Jut another day.” https://considerthisradioshow.com/?s=Just+another+day

      Reply

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