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Retirement?
By Neil Peterson | February 6, 2008
What to do when you retire or stop receiving a monthly paycheck.
In a speech last week to the CEO’s of our nation’s public transportation systems, members of the American Public Transportation Association, I told them about a philosophy of life that provides a guide for me at this stage of my life.
It is called the “20 summers of life” philosophy
Remember when you were a kid. Remember how much you used to look forward to the summers. How your eyes would get real big as you thought about how you wanted to spend your summer. Wow! Can you feel the excitement?
Let’s assume, to show you how this philosophy works, that you are 60 years old. And, let’s assume that you are going to live until the ripe old age of 90. Further, let’s assume that between the years when you are 80-90 that you will not be able to be as active as you might otherwise want to be.
This means that you have 20 years left, before you will have to adopt a different pattern of activity.
Now, let’s assume that you approach each of the remaining 20 years the same way you approached your summers when you were a kid. Terrific! That is something to look forward to.
However, the first thing that hits you is that there are only 20 summers left. That means that after next year, only 19 summers will be left. And yet there is so much that you want to do.
What happens when you adopt this “20 summers of life philosophy” is that you realize immediately that “time is a wasting.” Your decision making becomes more decisive and declarative.
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February 7th, 2008 at 7:22 am
A CEO in the ’20 summers’ audience said that in over 30 years of coming to the association’s conferences, this was the BEST session he had ever attended.
Your passion, candor, humanity, and insights impressed everyone. There was a high level of interest in you, your top quality presentation, and your inspiring responses to the questions that seemed to keep coming.