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You know, you come to a time in your life where you think, there’s more to life than this!  Maybe you’ve worked long hard hours for years and you’re tired of the same old daily grind. You might be asking yourself if you’re fulfilling your potential.  What have I been missing all these years?  By now, you are approaching your so called retirement but you feel in your gut that you haven’t turned every stone yet. You’re not ready to hang it up, even though you want to get away from what you’re doing now. 

For some, the recognition comes gradually.  For others, it comes in a flash of insight.  “Hey, I don’t have to continue living like this!  There’s a whole new life out there!”  The time comes when you realize that it”s time for a change.  If any of this sounds familiar to you, how to deal with this time for change is what this  ”Work Longer”  weblog is all about.

How your “time for change” works itself out may be different for each of us, depending on what you want from your “whole new life out there”. For some, it’s a matter of greater achievement, more financial security or higher recognition. For many, it’s the freedom to pursue personal passions, whatever they may be.  It could even be a combination of two or more of these objectives.  The point is, how do you make the transition from where you are now to where you want to be? What is your path?

The interesting thing you notice when considering the path at this stage of your life is that the path itself is now as important to you as the objective. It used to be that the objective was the paramount consideration. Now you recognize that the journey is as important as the destination. That’s different! And that difference is bound to alter how you go about the transition from where you are now to where you want to be.  In fact, if you look close enough, the path of transition is actually an integral part of “the whole new life” itself.

So the questions for you the reader are threefold. Does this discribe where you are now? How would you discribe the “whole new life out there” that you dream about?  And do you have a path for that journey?  We’d love to hear about you.

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