Retirement Is Not About Stopping

Most people think retirement is about stopping. Retirement Is not about stopping; It's actually about starting.

For ten years I've watched people retire with both feet running, expecting life to feel like vacation. Vacations always end. Then what?

Here's what catches people off guard:

1) You're going to miss work. Not the commute or the meetings, but the benefits work gave you. The creativity. The people who greeted you each morning. The structure. Someone telling you where to go and when.

2) You're also going to need a whole new set of friends. Think about it—you just walked away from everyone you saw daily. If the only people you talked to were at work, you're now sitting in your living room looking out the window. Not a lot of people walk through uninvited.

3) And retirement is going to last longer than you ever imagined. Twenty, thirty years. That's not a vacation. That's a new phase of life that needs intention, purpose, and design.

I was a systems analyst for decades. I helped people discover their needs and solve their problems. In retirement, I'm doing the same thing. I'm just not moving inventory from A to B anymore. I'm helping people get from C to D and over the hurdles waiting for them.

Retirement isn't the finish line. It's a whole new race.

Ed Zinkiewicz

Your Aging-in-Life Strategist

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