However, after a lifetime of work and planning, sometimes people can feel a little disconnected from daily life when the time finally arrives. Perhaps they start to feel that with the amount of days they have on hand, finding purpose is harder than it seemed. It’s true that not having purpose can sometimes feel as draining as not having the time to decide the direction of your life, as those working busy jobs will no doubt know. Either way, we intend to discuss how to find that purpose, and better yet, how to mold it based on your tastes and needs.
Reconsider Your Values
Your values from your working life, maybe built around ambition or providing for your family, might not be the same ones that make you happy right now. Retirement is the perfect chance to sit back and think about what still matters to you today, without any pressure from a boss or a looming deadline, which is a very strange feeling at first.
Maybe you'll find that community involvement, quiet time, or just spending unstructured time with your grandkids is what you care about most now. It’s quite a relieving feeling to be able to come to this realization. Of course you don’t have to reinvent yourself completely (unless you’d like to), but perhaps you can be more of yourself. You get to decide what a good day looks like, instead of what you’re obligated to do.
Mentor Others
Hopefully, you've collected a lifetime of skills and wisdom, both from your job and just from living your life, and that knowledge is actually very valuable to others. You could find a huge amount of purpose in passing that on to the next generation, and you don't need a formal program to do it, you can just start with someone close to you like a grandchild or even just a neighbor.
Moreover, you could volunteer to mentor a young person who is just starting in your former work industry, or just spend time teaching your grandchildren how to do something you love, like baking or woodworking. This is what can give us real purpose as we get older.
Focus On Constructive Hobbies & Learn Anew
Now is the time to finally dive into any and all hobbies you never had enough time for when you were working 40 hours a week. Maybe you always wanted to learn to play the guitar, get good at painting, or become fluent in Spanish, and now you can.
You could even take a class at a local college if you liked. This is why communities, such as those that help you enjoy retirement at Harrison Regent and similar places are so popular, as they can help maximize the amount of fun and novelty you enjoy in a given week.
With this advice, we hope you can more easily find purpose in your retirement going forward.
This is a contributed post.
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