5 Goals for Retirees in 2021 Show 32

Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal ran article entitled, For New Year’s Resolutions, Never Think You’re Too Old to Become a Beginner. 

 New Year’s resolutions tend to get a bad reputation. I like to think of them as goals rather than resolutions. The word resolution carries more of a symbolic meaning, and the word goal carries more of striving context. Goals are more practical and applicable. 

 Sure, we can write 2020 off, but let’s face it: sometimes our goals don’t even come to fruition when everything goes perfectly in the world. Some of us get discouraged and avoid setting goals for the next year. That’s unfortunate, because we lose the fulfillment of being able to celebrate our successful goal completion. 

We were designed to strive. It’s important to obtain new goals throughout our lifetime. Necessity created striving in the hunter gather days because your survival depended on it. You might have to hunt, fish, grow food, or raise animals among other things. 
 
The idea is to always have the spirt of a beginner. The article explained the progression babies go through from crawling to walking. They spend a third of their day practicing and it still takes them months to master walking. But when they learn how to walk and not crawl it opens new opportunities for them. They no longer face down all the time and they can use their hands. In other words, learning new things opens new opportunity for us. 

Listen to the show to hear David Treece's list of 5 goals for retirees to have in 2021.

Is one of your goals for 2021 to be better prepared for retirement? As always, you can use the link to schedule a 15-minute call with David to discuss anything you have questions on. 

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