Finding Your Retirement Purpose | The Next Chapter In Life

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The word Retirement is on word that shake me to the soul anytime it cross my mind, it is one moment we all can't escape from because we will get old one day and reach that stage where we won't be able to work anymore, people see retirement moment as a leisure time, a time to relax from the work stress they spent their years doing, an end to their lifelong career but what is that thing they want to fall back to when the strength is no more. In my country, what we are facing is unexplainable, people earn little which is far lower than their work effort and yet they can't even save enough talkless of having a retirement plans, anytime the retirement discussion came up, you will either find them exiting with some lame excuses or they will just tell you God is in control, when the reach the bridge they will cross it.

Truth be told, not everyone have a retirement backup plan, not even when what they earn aren't up to standard, at times I just watch the rich people lifestyle because they have more knowledge about retirement and always have a plan in places, they do retired and venture into other small light business to sustain themselves, some will go into farming, fishery and all other agricultural business, people really need to know there is a different between retiring from work and also retiring to a life of meaningful purpose, it is during this moment people always decided to chased their life long dreams which they can't do at first since they need to work and earn, some will even decide to go on adventures.

Reverse is the case here, since almost every thing is working against us, first is the lack of knowledge about what retirement really is and how to properly prepare for such moment (Maybe there should be an program put in place for such), people always work and work and at the end fall back to nothing at all, this do scare people and won't even want to retire, so even have to reduce their age so as to have more time duration at their work place. There are lot of things to put in place, the first is to Know Your Retirement Goals, you have to first analyse the kind of lifestyle you want for yourself, which kind of activities you might be engaging. Assessing your financial status is also important, it is really advisable to know your income, expenses, the debt you own and also your assets, all these will always help you in estimating the expenses you might have during retirement, most bills come from the house, your healthcares which might keep increase as you grow older and other expenses.

Every thing really come down to finance which is really important in every aspect of life, the time to start planning your next retirement lifestyle which is a time for self rediscovery is right now, put things in order so you won't be sorry when the time comes.