The Hunger to Grow

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Peter Nicholls. The Hunger to Grow

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THE HUNGER TO GROW

Retire? “No, I’m still hungry. What’s for dessert?”

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Your way of thinking about retirement is being influenced by many factors other than simply the role of work in your life and your identity as a person. Whether you are male or female, you will be experiencing a change-of-life. You might be starting to wonder if your life is like a glass that is half-full and still filling, or a glass that is half-empty and continuing to drain away. You are certainly starting to see almost everything differently – including your priorities, your physical and mental abilities, your financial needs and who is important in your life. To many of us these changes are scary because they are signs of getting old. Increasingly though, we are starting to see this changed outlook on life as something of a release from the expectations we felt were placed on us in the first half of our lives. Maturity is helping us to realize not only are we entitled to follow our passions but others actually want us to relax and be ourselves more.

Putting it simply, you are moving into a wonderful stage of life where you start the gradual process of changing the emphasis from:

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