Hyrum W. Smith - Living a Purposeful Retirement: How to Bring Happiness and Meaning to Your Retirement (Retirement Gift for Men or Retirement Gift for Women)

Bring Happiness and Meaning
to Your Retirement

Hyrum W. Smith

Coral Gables

Copyright 2021 by Hyrum W. Smith.
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Living a Purposeful Retirement: Bring Happiness and Meaning to Your Retirement

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BISAC category code BUS050040BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / Retirement Planning

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Table of Contents

Retirement can be a gifta gift that opens up right in front of us like a perfect parking spot. Its a gift of time and a gift of opportunity. But we must first rec ognize it.

Nowadays, the word retirement has a somewhat negative connotation because it is associated with being the end of something. In this case, the end of a significant and lifelon g journey.

Its ridiculous! you might say.

Then dont stop. Dont let it be y our end.

Take this gift of time. Take this gift of opportunity. Take this gift and redirect your life. Take this gift and purposefully redirect your r etirement.

Youve left your day job and perhaps even turned off your alarm clock. But that doesnt mean its time to grab a crocheted blanket, wear down your favorite recliner, and start shouting out What is answers at re-runs of Al ex Trebek.

Im surely not going to let someone hand me a Social Security check and shoo me away. I am going to treat retirement as my time . I am going to ensure I make a difference with the time I am given.

In my seventies, I would be the first to tell you I didnt traditionally retire. I just started doing something else. I just changed my daily scenery. Now its time for you to do the same!

Reframing Your Mind for the Exciting Possibilities Ahead

The purpose of this book is to get you thinking about the many options for this new exciting phase of your life and to inspire you to make it purposeful. Its your chance to make a difference in your life, the lives of those around you, and even the world.

Retirees all around you are living longer. And living better! Retirement is no longer an end. Its a new season to live pur posefully.

Dont retire! Instead, join me in doing something else. Take note of the advice and inspiration here that rings true to you. Take away some ideas. Make plans today. Because youre not done and youre definitely not dead yet!

You dont stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

George Be rnard Shaw

Retirement is YOUR time. Make a differenc e with it!

You are valuable not because of your job title, but because of wh o you are.

Retirement is a gift. Its a gift of time and a gift of oppo rtunities.

Youre not defined by your job, your title, or the size of your paycheck. Ask yourself this: When it is gone, what is left?

We each have a Belief Window through which we look and perceive our lives. This window contains all our perceptions of the world. It shows us what we think we know. The view from everyones Belief Window is different based on upbringing, environment, and life ex periences.

As you see your world through your Belief Window, it affects every thought of every day. And if you can change your principles on your Belief Window, you can change your life.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesn t matter.

Mark Twain

What can you do with this gif t of time?

Launch a new careerthe one you always wanted to do but couldnt because you needed a predictable paycheck.

Volunteer and make a difference in your community.

Focus on spending time with yo ur family.

Fulfill your dream of b eing a DJ.

Writ e a novel.

Be a greeter and have an excuse to talk to people all day long.

Take tickets at a movie theater or help people find th eir seats.

Go on adventures with you r partner.

Ride bicycles with your grandkids.

Try something you have never do ne before.

Now is the time to consider all options, because now you finally have the time to do so!

Change can be a good thing, and that is what retirement isa really bi g change.

Ann Barnes

Take this gift of time and choose to do so much more.

Planning, Time Management, and Practical Advice

The best litmus test for productivity is to ask yourself, What did I do today? What did I accomplish today? If you find yourself floundering, set your intentions for the day, the week, the month, the year, ahead of time to give you a read map for how you want to spend your time, set your intentions now for the day, the week, the month, the year.

Daily planning gives you a shield against being lost in busy-ness. It takes you out of the busy world and into the productiv ity world.

If you have a daily plan , you will be proactive . If you do not have a plan, you will be reactive to whatever comes your way throughou t the day.

The option is clear, either you can consciously plan and decide how you want to fill your time and act purposefully or you can allow outside forces to fill time for you. In the river of life, be a boat you steer, not a log th at drifts.

Go beyond asking yourself: What am I going to do today? What am I going to do this week? Go deeper and ask: How am I going to make a d ifference?

Retirement is not for me. Its for the people I can serve. Its for the friends and family I can help and the younger generation I c an teach.

BJ Gallagher

If you understand your values, your inner self, you have unleashed a driving force in your own personal path to form a purposeful retirement. You know what you value, and therefore you know where you should direct your time, your energy, and your resources.

These three steps identify , clarify , and prioritize illuminate your priorities. Now the challenge is to build a retirement that reflects the se values.

Develop a personal constitution. Once you do that, you will absolutely know what you want to do in this season of your life.

The clock tells you nothing about time. Time is the occurrence of events in sequence one after the other. If that is true, the only things I can control about time are the events i n my life.