{"id":461420,"date":"2022-06-12T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/living-to-100-how-to-create-meaningful-experiences-later-in-life\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:59:00","slug":"living-to-100-how-to-create-meaningful-experiences-later-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/living-to-100-how-to-create-meaningful-experiences-later-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"#: Living to 100? How to create meaningful experiences later in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a50c2387a973\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a50c2387a973\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/living-to-100-how-to-create-meaningful-experiences-later-in-life\/#%E2%80%9C_Living_to_100_How_to_create_meaningful_experiences_later_in_life%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;: Living to 100? How to create meaningful experiences later in life&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/living-to-100-how-to-create-meaningful-experiences-later-in-life\/#%E2%80%98The_majority_of_retirees_and_preretirees_view_retirement_as_a_new_chapter_in_life\" >\u2018The majority of retirees and preretirees view retirement as a new chapter in life\u2019<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/living-to-100-how-to-create-meaningful-experiences-later-in-life\/#Chris_Farrell\" >Chris Farrell<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C_Living_to_100_How_to_create_meaningful_experiences_later_in_life%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;: Living to 100? How to create meaningful experiences later in life&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98The_majority_of_retirees_and_preretirees_view_retirement_as_a_new_chapter_in_life\"><\/span>\n  \u2018The majority of retirees and preretirees view retirement as a new chapter in life\u2019<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000937332\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetArticleReader\n              \n              inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetArticleReader\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-object-article-reader\">\n<div class=\"audioplayer\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000937332\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Listen to Article\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"articlereader\" data-show-title=\"false\" data-theme=\"wsj-article-reader\" data-show-header=\"false\" data-show-subscribe=\"false\" data-ads-enabled=\"true\" data-save-publication=\"false\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Walk into any bookstore and take a look at the books on retirement. Money and investments\u2014usually, the lack of both\u2014dominate. With good reason. The latest Schroders 2022 U.S. Retirement Survey reports that working Americans say it will take on average $1.1 million to retire comfortably. Yet only one-quarter of those surveyed expect to reach that savings mark. Among respondents nearing retirement\u2013ages 60 to 67\u2013more than half say they will have less than $250,000 saved at retirement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       Household finances matter at retirement, of course. But conversations with near-retirees and recent retirees\u2013insights supported by a cottage industry of research\u2014also highlight how it\u2019s critical for people to find purpose in the next stage of life. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> and economic benefits from longer life expectancy (on average) is an opportunity for an aging population to create meaningful experiences and contributions later in life.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>\u200bRead:<\/strong> How much \u2014 or little \u2014 is in the \u2018average\u2019 401(k)? \u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetirement is now a longer and more important stage of life\u2014and today\u2019s retirees increasingly want to make the most of it,\u201d note the team from the demographic consulting firm Age Wave and the financial services company Edward Jones in the recent survey report, Longevity and the New Journey of Retirement. \u201cFor the parents of today\u2019s retirees and preretirees, the focus of retirement was mostly on \u2018rest and relaxation.\u2019 Now the majority of retirees and preretirees view retirement as \u2018a new chapter in life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new narrative of retirement that is being written often includes work. Experienced workers in the traditional retirement years are experimenting with various ways to stay engaged in the economy, including self-employment, entrepreneurship, and part-time jobs. (The pandemic momentarily derailed the trend, but it has resumed with the current tight labor market.) The search isn\u2019t for any kind of work, however. The goal is to find work\u2014paid or unpaid\u2013that offers purpose, a reason to get up in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>What is purpose?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPurpose is our aim to live a life that is meaningful and makes a positive contribution to the world. It is grounded in the truth that our lives are fundamentally worth living and that each of us matters,\u201d write Richard Leider and David Shapiro in \u201cWho Do You Want To Be When You Grow Old: The Path of Purposeful Aging.\u201d \u201cIt helps us make sense of our lives and organize our choices and direction in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong>After being shut out of jobs in her 50s, Deborah Gale reinvented herself and is helping people of all ages find purpose in life<\/p>\n<p>I thought about the importance of purpose with age when I talked to Steven Newcom, age 68. When I first reached him, he was taking a break from building raised beds on the small farm near Brainard, Minnesota he and his wife Joy, age 63, bought in 2020. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to keep bending over when we\u2019re 80,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have a background in farming?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo background,\u201d he replied. \u201cMy doctorate is in theology.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> This type of retirement community can help people stay in their homes as long as possible<\/p>\n<p>The shift from his earlier career (I\u2019ll get to that in a moment) to farming was serendipitous, not haphazard. He and Joy had long wanted to make the move to be stewards of a plot of land. They had given up on buying a farm after years of looking and not finding anything that met their combination of price and small organic farming prospects. While visiting their son in Brainard, Minnesota in 2020 they saw a listing and decided to check it out. Why not? They visited the property, made an offer the next day, and moved into their new home as fast as they could. \u201cIn some ways it was an accident,\u201d he says. \u201cAn opportunity we hadn\u2019t expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The farm is 25 acres with 10 acres of it pasture. They\u2019re creating an organic farm, first for their own and family use, but they may eventually use it for commercial production. They planted 25 fruit trees in the spring, they\u2019re remodeling a shed into a chicken coop, and they\u2019re raising the beds. Steven and Joy are also planning a Silvopasture of hardwood and nut trees to provide shade for future livestock and to sequester carbon. Adding solar to cover their electrical use is also on the docket. \u201cThis is the life we want to live,\u201d says Newcom.<\/p>\n<p>What seized my attention during our conversations was while farming was far removed from his earlier work the underlying purpose remained the same: \u201cThe common thread through both of our careers has been a commitment to advancing justice,\u201d he says. \u201cJoy and I are continuing that with our stewardship of this land we are now responsible for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joy, an Anishinaabe, has had a career in philanthropy, coaching and consulting with a focus on boosting native communities. Steve was the executive director for 18 years of the Headwaters Foundation for Social Justice, a community foundation that invests in grass roots organizations across. He left that position at age 54 in 2008 for a yearlong fellowship where he developed the idea that became in 2010 the Kaleo Center for Faith, Justice and Social Transformation in partnership with United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He\u2019s still involved with the Center while making the transition to the farm. He\u2019s writing a \u201cguidebook for spirit-grounded social transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve and Joy have long lived their purpose while expressing it in different ways during their careers. Many other people at similar ages may see the retirement years as a time for reflection to unearth their purpose. Either way, purpose is good for our mental and physical health, as well as a benefit to the broader society. \u201cHaving a positive or purposeful mind-set beyond yourself, you\u2019ll have a quality of life that is better,\u201d says Richard Leider, co-author of \u201cWho Do You Want To Be When You Grow Old,\u201d in an interview. \u201cThe question used to be \u2018what do when you grow up?\u2019 Now, it\u2019s \u2018what do you want to do when you grow old?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good question. (I\u2019m still looking for an answer.) The larger lesson is that as the stereotypical vision of retirement as full-time leisure fast fades, expressing your purpose and values through work, volunteering, and other activities becomes increasingly vital.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Chris Farrell\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/topics\/journalists\/chris-farrell\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cfarrellecon\",\"text\":\"@cfarrellecon\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/mailto:Cfarrell@mpr.org\",\"text\":\"Cfarrell@mpr.org\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chris_Farrell\"><\/span>Chris Farrell<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><ufc-follow-author-widget product=\"marketwatch\" author-id=\"260_MW\" author-name=\"Chris Farrell\" signin-url=\"https:\/\/accounts.marketwatch.com\/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketwatch.com%2Fstory%2Fliving-to-100-how-to-create-meaningful-experiences-later-in-life-11654741291%3Frss%3D1%26siteid%3Drss\" panda-api=\"https:\/\/follow-api.marketwatch.com\"><\/ufc-follow-author-widget><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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