How to Reinvent Yourself While Aging

Director for Education and Culture for Koelsch Communities Benjamin Surmi joins Suzanne to talk about reinvention. A new life cycle is emerging due to demographic shifts as we’re living longer, as well as changes in how we learn and work. A new trend shows multiple cycles of school, work, and mini retirement, with several different careers over the course of their lives. Some seniors are happy at 75 to play bridge or bingo all day, but others have contributed and still want to keep going at 70. People in older age groups are starting new businesses.

How does someone begin the second wind journey? There’s a method to define what matters to you, create one sentence in your head that begins with what you want to do/learn/enjoy/share, followed by with/so that/for/ to clarify more about it. For example, what do you want to do? “I want to share my love of photography with my grandchildren so that nonprofits in my city are uplifted.”

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