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Category: Goals
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Time We Have Wasted on the Way
When you meet people and consider relationships as you get older you start to realize that relationships are not the same as when you’re 20 years old or even 30 years old later in life you start to think about who you want to spend the rest of your life with and it’s not about raising kids or building home or any of that stuff anymore.
Life is really about the time and you realize how short that time is because by the time people are around 50 years old, they lived maybe 2/3 of their life. Let’s face it we are not living to 100 years old.
Most of us will be lucky to live until we’re about 80 to 90 years old at best. You wait until your 65 or 70 to retire only to enjoy what will be 10 to 15 years of your life or do you try to retire as early as possible, age 55-60 and do some things while you’re still physically able and mentally able to remember somethings. Who do you do those things with and who do you wanna spend those moments with?
I was talking to a friend the other day and we were having that most philosophical conversation about what is life all about, and someone had told them that life was about falling in love and doing good things for other people. My mind went in a different direction, after all we’re just base human beings that are about eating and living and dying. We internally can come up with some amazing idea of what life means to us because we are intelligent beings, but when you take a step back and look, we’re just like any other animal on the planet. We live, breathe, procreate, and die. It’s weird to think of it that way, but it is true.
People who don’t know you never know how much you love them or how much you meant to somebody else. There are millions of people on this planet billions of people on this planet and not every one of them will touch more than a handful of people in their life. Does making a difference count and how do you make a difference? I don’t know.
You hope that your efforts will leave a legacy and then other times you think it was just a flash in the pan. Part of our conversation was talking about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and I said your purpose is at the bottom and my friend said your purpose is at the top. You can’t get to the top unless you have the bottom all worked out, if you’re lucky you get to the top. It depends on where you are in your station of life and where you will be on the hierarchy.
So many of us are just wasting time, breathing air, eating food, and really not doing anything but using up resources on this planet. Yeah, we enjoy our TV shows and going out and socializing here and there, but is that our purpose in life? Or is our purpose in life to help other people so that they can be more successful in there so that they can move up the pyramid. What are we doing? What are we doing?
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Life’s Journey’s
Where are you going?
I would have to say, over the course of my life, I’ve taken time out to look around, see where I’m at, where I’ve been, and ponder, where am I going? This time in my life has really given me cause to pause. I’m 52 years old and there are some milestones that I start to think about. Retirement age will come sooner than I would imagine. Early retirement at 55 is possible, and anywhere between 55-60, I could consider doing that.
Restarts
Do you ever think about what you would do if you could have a “do-over”. I don’t know if there are so much “do-overs” as I believe in restarts. I think that you can end one career or passion and put yourself into something else. We think about that passion that we have for whatever it is, and wonder, why am I not making money or following my dream doing what makes me happy? We do get stuck doing the job that puts the money in our pocket and enables us to live the life we think we want to live. Pay the bills, enjoy some entertainment, and breathe, so we hope.
What would you do if you had the support and willingness to try and know you might fail? It’s scary to start something new. As the saying goes, “…but what if you fly?” I think that confidence is great, but knowing that other have confidence in us is a special kind of strength. YES, believe in yourself, and having friends along the way that believe in us is important as well.
A Goal is a Dream with a Deadline.
Multiple Sources have been quoted.End of Life
That title sounds a little morbid, but there really is 3 major phases of life for most people:
- Childhood from 0-(until you leave your parents home) 26.
- Adulthood (Work life on your own until Retirement) and
- Retirement (Your “Golden Years”).
Retirement is End of Life for many people. The idea you stop working and you are done seems to be what a lot of people are living for. Living to die. And some people never stop working and never get to retire. So what do you do so you’re not just moving into an old age home to eat soft food and have your kids or grandkids wait for you to die so they can collect an inheritance.
You Choose When You Die
If you aren’t thinking about what you want to do in that last phase of life, and planning for it, you will never get there. You need to try and own your home if possible, get yourself as debt free as possible so you have live on a limited income if you’re not working, if you can. OK, easier said than done.
Let’s go way beyond that, because once you stop worrying about the basics, then what?
Will you travel? What hobbies and interests do want to develop or maintain? You look at someone like former President Jimmy Carter, who is still building homes with Habitat for Humanity and have to ask stand back and think how amazing that is. He’s not some administrator, he’s a guy on a job site with a hammer.
We have to find our passion, our love and keep the people and things in our life that matter to us. The point, as many have said, is to never grow old, and live a life on fire and with passion.