Authors Patti and Milledge Hart considered themselves “resolutionists” rather than retirees. The couple has written about what future retirees will wish they’d known sooner. One is that people have more time left nowadays, with the average 65 year-old living around two decades more. The Harts encourage people to start planning early for their post-career years. They also admit they underestimated how much fun and fulfillment they would find in their retirement years. Patti says that, ultimately, she wishes she would have known that she could reinvent retirement however she wishes.
Key Takeaways:
- Retirement isn’t what it used to be. Most people’s vision of retirement is built on what the people around them did, but that vision is outdated.
- nyone who expects retirement to be a few short years tacked on to the end of their working life could be in for an awakening.
- It’s important to constantly prepare for the next phase. The Harts acknowledge they should have been planning earlier than they did.
““We laugh more now than we’ve laughed at any other stage in our life,” Milledge Hart says. “This phase is instilled with so much adventure, and it’s a feeling that comes from within rather than the happiness of achieving a certain stock price.””
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