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How Will You Spend Your Time in Retirement? A 'Wish List Journal' Can Help

"Retirement" can be a scary word. Webster defines "retired" as: "withdrawn from one's position or occupation: having concluded one's working or professional career." We used to believe that retirement was the time of life when we no longer had to set the alarm clock, since we didn't have to rush out to work. It may have felt like the start of irrelevance, like an appliance that came with built-in obsolescence. Let's face it, retirement was thought of as the beginning of the end.

Instead, how about redefining retirement as a time in your life when you have the freedom to now

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