Are We Doomed To Work Until We Die?
© Copyright Frank D. Kanu 2000-2008
The German government raised the retirement age from 65 to 67; the Japanese from 60 to 65. With an ever increasing life expectation and a decline in child births chances that the retirement age will continue to increase are high. So we are doomed, right?
Let’s take a step back and look closer at this:
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The German government raised the retirement age from 65 to 67; the Japanese from 60 to 65. With an ever increasing life expectation and a decline in child births chances that the retirement age will continue to increase are high. So we are doomed, right?
Let’s take a step back and look closer at this:
- Retirement isn’t an invention of nature but rather an accomplishment of modern society.
- Why do so many people think that working is bad? Matter of fact is that when you really love what you do you do not mind doing it forever, right? Or have you ever heard of someone retiring from all their hobbies?
- It is all about choices: The seeds we plant in spring…
Now, do not get me wrong—I think that putting children in pre-Kindergarten is as wrong as having 9th-graders permanently decide what they want to be when grown up.
Remember the old saying from school: You learn for life, not for school!
But how much of that knowledge has turned out to be suitable for your later life?
Very little, right? And while it is easy to sit down and whine about how unfair things are—why not step back, look what is it that you really need to succeed in life, get up and implement and follow a plan? And get rid of that negativity? Life is what we make it, not what others think it should be!
As true as this is for ourselves—how many parents are actually helping their children to be prepared for success?
And no, I am not talking about those parents that take away the childhood from their kids to make them a star or have their kids fulfill the dreams the parents never were able too…When was the last time you sat down and worked on your life plan?
Your kids life plan?
Are you still sitting?
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