Retirement is Not The End of Life But a Transition in Life
by You will find that retirement is not the end of your life but only a transition into a new life. In fact you can expect to spend at least one third of your lifetime in retirement!
Therefore, it is very important that you be prepared for this transition.
Words are powerful and when you think about the definition of retirement it usually has a negative connotation of uselessness or end of use, which makes it seem that retirement is the end.
You will find that retirement is not the end of your life but only a transition into a new life. In fact you can expect to spend at least one third of your lifetime in retirement!
Therefore, it is very important that you be prepared for this transition - because retirement has killed more persons than hard work ever will!
One of the reasons why this is so is that most persons never make the psychological transition from work to retirement. Whether you realize it or not your working years provides your life with a number of benefits and in most instances these benefits go almost unnoticed.
There are five benefits that work provides you with and if you’re ever going to transition successfully from work to retirement you have to be able to translate these benefits into your retirement.
The five benefits of work are:
- Structure. Work provides you with structure and everything that you do falls within the structure. Your commitment to work affects your sleep habits and you’re your interaction with families and friends. And those interactions are certainly different from the ones at work. You may be the king or queen of your castle but at work your roll is determined by the structure in which you are place.
- Status. Almost without fail you identify yourself in the position in the company that you work for. And that position gives your status not only in the work environment but also in the society in which you live.
- Socialization. If you are like me you don’t work in a perfect enviroment but work allows you the opportunity to socialize with others on a daily basis.
- Sense of Utility. You need to feel useful and work does this for you. It allows you use your skills and ability each day for the benefit of others.
- Financial Stability. Without question, this is the main reason why you go to work and it’s the one benefit that you know you get from work and the reason why the other four goes unnoticed. Work provides you with the money you need to have the life you want.
So if you want to transition successfully into retirement you’ve got to find a way to continue to have structured in your life, continue your status in the community, continue to be able to socialize on an intergenerational level, continued to experience a sense of utility, and continue to have a financially stable existence.
Your need for these five things don’t end with your working years and that is why it’s so important to for you to realize that retirement is not the end of your life but a transition.
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