Why is it important to think that way as we get older?
Because too many people think ‘I’m done. I can’t start something new. I can’t learn something new.’ And that’s absolutely not true. It doesn’t make sense from a life activity, purpose, or financial standpoint. With our current economy and the cost of living, we may still need and want to work.
Now in the second half of our lives, we want more, we want different, so we need to reinvent ourselves.
In the reinvention stage, yes, you may stop working where you have been, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to retire from working or have a purpose. In this period, it’s resetting your life priorities.
Just think about all your life skills, talents and experience you have gained. It’s about rethinking what you might want to do with those talents and how to utilise them differently.
And this reinvention stage doesn’t necessarily start at age sixty and end in your late sixties either, right?
No, it could start in your forties or your fifties. You can also be reinventing yourself in your seventies and eighties, too. The reinvention stage is really the exciting one.