Retirement Planning:
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("A Peaceful Place" - painting by Karen Kieviet.) |
Think about this: how long before they get married do some people start visualizing and planning their wedding? For some it starts when they are still children.
How long before they land the “dream job” do many people start planning for that job? Before college? Before high school?
But when it comes to retirement, people just don’t tend to visualize it, and therefore plan for it, in the same way.
They certainly may have snippets of hope that it is a lush life, or a relaxed life. But unlike these other big life events, there just seems to be a disconnect for most people with fully seeing themselves as retired people.
Many retirerees have said this is the way it feels: it’s like you are going, going, going in life and then all of a sudden – STOP.
Like suddenly hitting a dead-end on an expressway.
Perhaps it is a fear of getting old, including a fear of not feeling “useful” – or perhaps it is just because people are over-busy and too darned tired – but retirement does not typically get the same passion-planning, the same excited visualization, as the other epochal life events.
WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING?
You won’t get where you want to be if you don’t know where you want to go.
What IS likely is that you already have a feel of what you want when you are retired. You want to feel peaceful, secure, healthy … fulfilled.
Even people who proclaim to be opposed to planning too much have a plan like this in their heart … they may believe in wandering, in roaming free and letting whatever may happen come, but in their heart they fully believe that doing so will bring them peace and joy.
So the key, in order to make it far more likely that your feelings about the future will become your reality, is to give those feelings shape, color and movement … to visualize how you intend your life in your retirement years to be.
As noted above, this has a beautiful and powerful side-benefit: by visualizing what your life will be like in your retirement years, it can rapidly reduce your stress in any given moment.
(That is, of course, assuming you feel positive emotions in relation to your retirement like inner-peace and therefore visualize positive things.)
By “going there” -- engaging your senses as deeply as possible to be there in your home or wherever as a retired person feeling what you want to feel -- your mind, heart and spirit ARE there. That’s why you can do this whenever you feel stress or any negative emotion … it is quickly eliminated with this visualization.
Oh, and before anyone protests it as such, this is not “living in the future.” You are always where you are, and always moving forward; this intense little experience is exceptional for helping you find and stay on that “right” path for your peace and happiness as you move forward.
GET YOUR HOUSE SLIPPERS ON AND LET’S GO
So be in a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed.
To make this intense little experience, this visualization, even MORE effective, go to a place you won’t be disturbed that also correlates with a place you’d like to frequent when you retire. Perhaps a park, a church, or the lakefront.
Where ever you choose to do this, take at least three deep and clearing breaths. It really does also help to say a mantra, short prayer or affirmation out loud … a powerful one after your deep breaths and just before heading into your visualization is, “Whatever I desire most is already mine, and this experience will help reveal that to me.”
And then, whether it is five, ten, twenty, or forty years hence, jump forward to how you want retirement to be.
Congratulations, you are now in your retirement years.
It is morning. The day before you is all yours. The years before you are all yours.How do you feel? Peaceful? Excited? Energetic?
What do you see? What do the rooms throughout your house like look? Your bedroom, the kitchen, the other rooms?
What type of house, condo, apartment are you living in? And what is the view out the windows in the various directions?
How does your house smell What favorite smells of yours pervade the place?
Visualize as many details as you can, inviting all your senses in. Become aware of what you know about your life now that you are retired, like the type of car parked outside or in your garage, how much money you have in your bank account, and where your extended family is living.
What type of furniture do you have in the living room? Dining room? Other rooms of the house? What type of appliances?
What is the temperature where you are at?
And what are you dressed in?
What’s for breakfast … and for that matter, since you are a bit hungry, what might you have for lunch and for dinner?
Who are you with, if anyone? Spouse or significant other? Dogs, cats or other pets? What do they look and act like?
And what is it that you plan to do with this day?
Do you have a part- or full-time job somewhere that you do because you simply enjoy it? Do you volunteer?
Or what hobbies do you intend to involve yourself in today? What passions?
Do you plan on visiting with family and friends? Which ones? Who are they? Where do they live? What are they like, what kind of relationship do you have with them?
Or if you love to take vacations, are you leaving for another one today?
How many vacations do you like to take now that you are retired? Are they long ones, or extended weekend trips? Where do you like to go?
What hobbies do you like to involve yourself in, and when do you prefer to do them?
LET THE "MAGIC" START
You get the idea.
When you are visualizing your retirement years, keep “moving through” your day … the things you feel, see, hear, smell, do and know. The deeper you get in the more you will get out.
Move through other days that will be a part of your life then, like being on vacation, or going fishing, or visiting family, or going on retreats, or teaching, or volunteering, or whatever you want to be an essential part of your life.
The deeper you go and the more you let yourself see and do there in your retirement years, the more you will understand where you want to go, where your journey is headed.
THAT, of course, is essential to then do the practical stuff to properly plan for retirement, such as the appropriate financial planning to help you live the life you are going to live when you are retired.
And, as noted and as you will see, it’s a great way to lift your spirits and make you happier right now.
Simple, interesting and very beneficial.
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