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WELCOME TO RETIREMENT!

Welcome to your time! No longer are you an unwilling subject to alarm clocks that ring too early, coworkers who act incompetently, and in-boxes that never stay empty. The day is yours to fill—or not to fill—as you choose. This is your time.

As amazing as that sounds, retirement can also be unsettling. It’s simply an odd creation of a modern society. How do you go from daily, routine activity over a period of forty years or more to nothing just because you reached a certain age or a certain date on the calendar? How does it all just end?

A job ending can and should be an exciting personal beginning. This is your time! What are you going to do with it? Whatever you choose to do, don’t focus on the “tire” part of retirement. This is not the time to tire out.

For decades you’ve made a difference in your home, in your community, in your office. You’ve made a difference at both a personal and professional level.

Don’t stop now. I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to let someone hand me a Social Security check and shoo me away. I am going to treat retirement as my time. I am going to ensure I make a difference with the time I am given.

“I will not go quietly.”

—Don Henley