Studies show that our brains are wired to take the 'default' option. We have a very bad habit of taking the easy way out whenever it is open to us. When we are confronted with a variety of choices, as can so often happen these days, thinking and focusing can be exhausting, so we don't do it. It is easier to go along with the crowd.
Retirement used to mean staying with the company until you got the golden handshake for the years you had put in. In that tortoise-paced era you stayed in the same town or area your whole adult life. You had your children and grandchildren close by and maybe enjoyed a family burial plot on the hill that went back a few hundred years.
Nowadays the kids leave home, or indeed the country, for school or to improve their economic prospects. Statistics show that they rarely move back close to their parents unless disaster strikes, but they often leave again when the next alluring piece of career bait is dangled in front of them. The modern workforce moves to the crack of a different whip master than that of all previous generations.
That leaves us older fogies with a different set of head scratching confusions. The costs of staying in the old large family home, affording medical care, transport costs, real estate taxes, etc., are making it decision time for many of us. A great number of our boomer and beyond generation now consider moving, when originally they thought they would stay in the same place forever. Some are even considering the heresy of a drastic climate and lifestyle change.
You have seen those pictures all over the internet, palm trees, shady swaying flowers dripping over your patio-but is it really that easy? Does an idyllic lifestyle exist? And if it does, how do you find it without the money of a major high rolling corporate executive? And is that what you really want anyway? So many questions to answer.
If you are perching on this precipice preparing to leap off into the great unknown, what should you do first?
Well, if you are still healthy take into account the idea that you might like some new interesting adventures. But you might also wish to hold onto, or even expand, the comforts and luxuries you have worked so hard to achieve. That's perfectly reasonable. But now, how do you accomplish it?
So, first things first;
1. Research all those alluring choices you have rattling around in your head. Make lists and then investigate. The internet is free and can be amazingly helpful and thorough.
2. Make sure before you fall in love that you have first crunched the numbers realistically to figure out if you could afford to live there.
3. Go visit a variety of your options after your research.
4 Lastly, make sure there are some projects to become involved with. Sipping cocktails and having dinners with friends will wear thin after a while, and you'll want more to do.
Be prepared on these four fronts and you will have a good start on writing the next satisfying chapter of your life.
At last! a complete system that will help you figure out what YOU want. Lists, tables, questions and thoughtful articles and chapters to help you figure out which way to head in life. Is moving overseas a good idea for you? How about the other side of town? Make your next chapter the best.
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