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Never Too Young To Start A Bucket List (Originally Published 2/25/2022)


It seems like all financial arrows after the age of twenty-five point to “preparing for retirement,” “investing for the future”, or “planting seeds for prosperity.” There doesn’t seem to be any handbooks or manuals however to help “prepare” for the mental and emotional aspects of retirement when retirement finally arrives. Recently, in one week, I observed and/or talked with three different people in their sixties either on the edge of the diving board into retirement or just freshly released from careers with time on their hands. When a flood of observations on one subject as in this case, retirement, strikes me in any seven-day period, I know there’s a blog in there somewhere. Until I write about it, I will be seriously haunted.

 

I’m seventy years old. I certainly don’t expect others to still be as active as I am with writing books and blogs, doing YouTube vlogs, selling commercial real estate, and managing two other businesses. I am imbued with energizer bunny energy. I have no choice. It’s how I’m wired. I was blessed however, almost twenty years ago, to watch a good friend of mine retire from General Motors. I noticed the process she went through from working 40 hours a week to no work at all. For her it was traumatic. I see that with the first two retirement sagas I mentioned above.

 

Here is my suggestion to mentally and emotionally prepare for the shift from work to retirement: Make a bucket list. It’s never too early or too late to design an exit strategy that includes not only financial independence but emotional stability and mental happiness; you know those things you want to do but time doesn’t allow for at the moment.

 

I was amazed last week as I personally planted 9 tropical trees on a vacant lot in the Keys I hold for investment. It occurred to me as I was planting away I had added “work in a tropical garden” as an item on my bucket list almost forty years ago. I created the tropical garden intention after a visit to Hawaii which is the most amazing place for beautiful gardens on Earth. My mind had created a scenario where I worked for a Hilton or Marriott hotel as their gardener because I didn’t have all the details where my life would take me to even imagine that someday I would own tropical land. I’m certainly glad however that this item on my bucket list was met without having to seek hotel employment to accomplish it.

 

A bucket list is a list of intentions. When creating a bucket list, a balance of physical, mental and emotional intentions should be addressed. For example, mastering something new like learning to play the steel drums or deciphering a foreign language would be mental intentions. Resolving anger or jealousy issues, reducing one’s stubbornness quotient or perhaps gaining a new level of compassion on one’s heart and in one’s actions would qualify as emotional quests. Physical bucket list items would include good healthy eating, an exercise regime, etc.

 

One thing for sure, diving into one’s future without a clearly defined bucket list is like taking a hot air balloon flight without a map.

 

Affirmation:  I address all areas of my life with clear intentions for my future.

“I'm Catherine Wilcox, working to help others see that God is in all things, all the time, through conscious change and self-healing.”

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