An old friend invited me to his lifestyle of abundance. He still runs several very healthy businesses, goes to the gym daily and runs cross country every weekend. And he still takes his wife all over the world every other month. But she declared they should retire and disappear into an island somewhere in the South Seas.
So many of my friends speak constantly of their wondrous retirement plan, they say simply have had enough and want to put up their feet on the beach and stay there forever. Children, grandchildren, relatives and friends can visit. “This is my retirement plan,” he roared! “They can all hide in their rat holes and stay there until buried but I’m having too much fun living it up!” By the way, he’ll be celebrating his 100th birthday in a couple of years.
Lifestyle Choice
Paradise Beach - Retirement Or New Lifestyle
We all choose but putting our desires into dedicated action makes it imperative we will get to our destination. I observed those friends having settled into their mode of behaviours as each year over the past two decades or so, they seem to do the same things over and over again. Day in and day out, they work, they have dinner, pay their taxes, grumble about the economy, complain about losing money on their retirement plan, go to church and then do them all over again. In fact, they have settled on their dreams.
Now ask them to change that lifestyle via a new business opportunity or some daring do that will take much effort and much change in their routine will always be responded with “I can’t do that! It’s too risky, excuse, excuse and more reasons why my retirement must not be at risk.” So, anyone selling these people who ‘have it made’ anything, even if it’s obviously the best low risk investment ever, will be met very negatively out of fear for their retirement.
Retirement Plan
A perfect retirement plan says you have enough money to last you another two or three decades and then they will be far too old to enjoy life. Alternatively, they are expecting their funeral arrangements will take care of them if the government won’t. They are predicting their demise.
To have any change to that idyllic lifestyle of dreaming for that heavenly retirement ‘when their time comes’ always means they are too old to do anything else. They have predicted their future. And that future is their retirement plan. Not my place in life I don’t think. I much prefer that old friend’s outlook on life.
Lifestyle Of Abundance
Who says, abundance must end? Only lifestyle planners like the governments, banks or any of those people who have financial assets as their business do. A lifestyle of abundance mean life changes to a different path. Retirement is not on the radar screen. In fact, because of the amassed wealth, the greater experience and much wisdom, this new lifestyle can take on a new and more gratifying experience.
Have you ever travelled to places where centenarians are in abundance like in some Himalayan villages? They can out dance me and they celebrate life every single day! Their lives are filled with visits from people from afar who seek their wiser counsel. Then watch as someone who appears to be in their sixties come up and ask for a dance on one of those tourist resorts may surprise you. The surprise is that this person has already celebrated about a hundred New Years. And yep, true enough this is his yacht we’re all celebrating on.
Choose your retirement planning carefully. Is it perpetual or a finite one? For me, it’s the lifestyle of abundance forever…
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