Who Wants to Head “Off Into Seclusion?
” Most of us want to engage in some form of useful activity for as many years as we possibly can. We have good reasons for not wanting to be dependent on a paycheck. For a good number of us, the work that most excites us is work that is likely to pay little or perhaps nothing. But we do want to do things with our lives before time passes us by. So a retirement purpose that provides for a time when we will be heading “off into seclusion” rarely provides the motivation needed for a successful saving effort. Financial freedom is something everyone wants. So the focus of our saving efforts should be the exciting things we can do with our lives by attaining financial freedom. Not just in our 60s, 70s, and 80s. We should be saving for the exciting things that financial freedom lets us do with our lives in our 30s, 40s, and 50s too. Why should those age 65 and over be having all the fun? As the new idea of retirement purpose described in the article linked above gains ground, retirement will
