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2009 > April > 01 > Living deliberately.

Living deliberately.

Lifelong semi-retirement.

In 'It's a new word, it's an odd word.' Tara mentions 'We don't want our businesses to consume our lives.'

It's an important issue which shouldn't be overlooked, and gets to the whole 'do you live to work—or work to live thing?' which most of us still don't get balanced.

Relevant to this is John Andersen's Lifelong Semi-Retirement, from which I clip:

Lifelong semi-retirement is an exciting career especially suited for people with wide interests, a preference for living deliberately, and an uncontrollable passion for learning. It's available to nearly everyone, not just the wealthy.

Semi-retirement refers specifically to a person's relationship to paid work. The semi-retirees work for pay for only enough hours to meet their monetary needs. After that they spend much of their time in non-paid work like community service and hobbies.

Semi-retirees arrange their lives so they can afford the 'luxury' of not having to work for pay from sun up to sun down. They operate on the idea that people should enjoy themselves throughout life. They feel that not giving ample time to dreams, hobbies, or close friendships until after the traditional retirement age is unwise.

Although they make provision for their declining years, they unapologetically enjoy many of the fruits of retirement in the present.

Life to them isn't a big meal followed by a big nap, but rather a nibble here, a catnap there.

Let's talk about this great career, and how we can implement it in our lives.

While lifelong semi-retirement is a viable career path for some, for many others it may be just a helpful mind-set. In other words, they can take the independent spirit of semi-retirement, and use it to relieve the stresses of their current life.

It's a good piece and well worth reading.

Filed by g on April 1 2009

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