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Taking the time to reflect deeply about your needs and desires after forty is not only important for finding purpose, it is mandatory.
It is easy to become overwhelmed when life's challenges hit after forty. Many times life can suddenly feel like a game that is just too difficult to play.
Suddenly everything a person has come to define as success seems to crumble. This happens to many people. It can feel so overwhelming; some people decide to give up. The problem with this strategy is that there is no one who will come to the rescue. It takes a new strategy, one that may go against society's expectations of success or what you have been taught.
When you have faith in yourself and others, magical things can happen in your life, despite the odds!
What can we learn from others who traveled this road of an authentic life?
A challenging time
Retirement no longer makes sense
Your best long term investment is to do work that fits you "just right." You can begin to take charge of your life and your work now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and stop waiting for Someday to come.
This is a year of financial turmoil in which millions of people around the world have seen their retirement nest eggs shrink, and their houses decrease in value. For many, a generalized anxiety about their future keeps them up at night.
While I can appreciate this current state, in many ways this panic is self-induced by our society. I have never understood the concept of investing for the future when the present isn't providing a joyful and fulfilling life.
An unhappy and unfulfilling life is the current state for millions of Americans, and according to my research, this proves true for most people over forty when it comes to work.
The majority of people just wait out their work years, until the time when their investments are big enough for them to finally retire, so they can do something else. The problem with this strategy, as we've seen in the economic crisis of 2008 and 2009, is that life gets in the way.
It will not come all at once, but in pieces. One day you feel a little lighter on your feet, the next day new ideas emerge, and suddenly you realize your life is in your control and determined by your feelings, actions, and your desired direction.
With a new sense of purpose you can start to lead a life that allows you to give back. You learn that you really do control more of your life than you are led to believe. Only then will your natural gifts and talents start to emerge, and your life will never be the same.</
Retirement is no longer an idea that makes sense. People are living longer, in many cases well into their eighties, and the idea of simply retiring twenty, or even thirty,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], years earlier no longer makes sense. We have the word "retire" thanks to the French, and it originally meant to "slow down" or "crawl under." That is the last thing people want to do in mid-life.
It is only when redefining what success after forty really means, and learning new ways of measuring success, that your authentic life filled with purpose can emerge.
Vocation is work that is joyful, coherent with your integrity, and that provides meaning to your life. Vocation is work that never stops until you stop breathing.
In 2001, I trademarked the term "vocational passion." What I mean by vocational passion is to live your vocation doing work that aligns with your abilities and interests.
Vocational Passion
As I write this article, I am fifty-two years old, and I feel like I am thirty-two. I have more energy now than I did in my younger years, and I have many projects planned. The thought of stopping my work feels no different to me than the thought of dying. And this is exactly what happens to most people when they stop working. They grow old and bored quickly, which leads to a focus on the past, followed by death.
The idea I would like to present is that at mid-life, we should stop working at "just a job,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," and starting living an authentic life.