Live like you are already retired!
This phrase continues to ring through my mind since we discussed this concept at one of our Lifeonaire events.
One thing that was clear at the event is that just about everyone wants to retire. While I do think that retirement has a number of different meanings… when you explore the big “why” behind the reason for this desire, it all boils down to freedom.
Hey Moguls, Shaun McCloskey here, and most everyone I know and coach has this strong desire to be free to experience life – and when people think about retiring, what they really want is relief from the life that they’ve created… a life that has robbed them of the freedom to experience the life they desire.
Are you being robbed?
I don’t want to paint a bleak picture of the life that most experience – we all have much to be thankful for – but we must acknowledge that our thoughts and dreams of something so much more than what we have borders on the extreme and is a result of our discontentment.
This discontentment leads to a life and ambitions that revolve around the extremes. So, most people go about living life with this deep extreme desire for so much more than what they currently have, hoping that one day they’ll be rich enough to retire, and then experience the reward: A full and abundant life.
This extreme desire robs them of what they can experience right now.
“Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!”
~Louis Tomlinson
Don’t wait.
This breaks my heart simply because we can experience that reward of an abundant life right now.
Waiting to experience life is a lie.
We don’t have to be mega-wealthy to experience abundance, we need to be intentional.
We don’t have to put the finer things of life off until we’re too old to enjoy them, we can enjoy them today if we’re deliberately pursuing life.
This is what we help our students realize. We help them to get in touch with what it is that they really want in life… and to develop a plan that will get them this life. Now. Not later.
You can and should do the same. Now. Not later.
I’ll confess that I don’t want to retire. I never want to stop working. I love what I do for a living. However, I do not want my work to get in the way of experiencing an abundant life.
I only work about 30 hours per month, which gives me the freedom to experience all of the other things that make my life full.
I can experience this simply because I was intentional in designing my life and my business. You can do the same. Experiencing an abundant life is not something that you should put off until someday. Why wait?
“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.
Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day.
Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!
There are only so many tomorrows.”
~Pope Paul VI
Are you living an abundant life?
Tell us how in the comments section below.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking you have to wait to live the life you want now.
Determine what you really want your life to be like right now.
Develop a plan with action steps and deadlines that will get you there.
Don’t wait to live like you’re already retired.
Shaun McCloskey
is considered to be a very successful real estate investor, author and real estate coach by world standards, but he realized that he was working far too much and was too consumed by his real estate investing business. By implementing Lifeonaire life coaching into his own personal life and business, this is now a thing of the past. He currently teaches others to do the same.