Are you ready to retire at the age of 45? What you need to change into the second half of your life is "mind" and you are responsible for yourself!

"Life is too short, don't let yourself be bored." — Nietzsche, philosopher

How to divide the time between the first and second half of the game?

Traditionally, we divide our lives into three stages: growth and study, work and family, and retirement and aging. The main content of the first stage is "development", laying the foundation for adult life, which lasts about twenty years. The second stage is "production", starting a family and working hard for the community, and it took about forty years. Finally, there is nothing left in retirement life, and it is a life that focuses on "leisure".

With the continuous extension of average life, socialists have combined the development and production stages into the first half of their lives, with little difference in content and tradition. Differences occur in the second half as the content becomes a mixture of integrated development, production and leisure.

Sentence-changing, the new concept breaks the boundary of what age you can only do when you live. This concept is not mainstream at present. Modern people still focus on traditional concepts when discussing retirement. However, it is worth noting that although the new thinking has become confused and unnamed, its influence is clearly expanding.

As for how to divide the upper and lower halfs of the time? There are no hard regulations, but considering factors such as mental growth and life, the ideal dividing point seems to be in the age of forty. If you ask, "Since you are learning and producing in the second half, how is it different from the first half?" The difference is in the motor and mind. Usually, the first half is more passive. Although there is a certain choice space but limited, the freedom in the second half is much greater. What you learn and what you do is closely related to your natural ambition and will no longer be driven by the outside world. Only by learning new things and expending talent can one realize oneself, and at the same time enjoy leisure and help others.

It is easy to think beautifully, right? Is it difficult? Of course, not everyone has the conditions to do it, but it is definitely not as indifferent as imagined. Most people think it is difficult to change when they are in their forties, so how can they change? But the concept of the second half is not to ask people to give up everything and go for food, drink and play selfishly. It emphasizes that people at this age have usually laid a foundation for their lives. Without affecting their responsibilities, they can be defecated by the unblocking, follow their hearts, and try their best to discover and realize themselves, so that life can be shined and heated. At the same time, through his commitment to career, he realizes care for his family and rewards for society.

According to my observation, there are many people who do this condition than those who do this actually do this. The reason is that too many people do not know that they meet the conditions. The habitual nature of life and the non-existent utilitarian thinking have eliminated people's desire to pursue dreams. Maybe you will say, "As a member of the family and society, I am just taking responsibility!" Or maybe, but too many people are responsible for others, only a few are responsible for themselves.

If you can't conquer yourself, you will be conquered by yourself

There must be this paragraph in the first aid broadcast on the aircraft: save yourself first and then save others when you encounter an accident. Even if you can't save yourself, how can you save others?

When speaking to middle-aged people who are successful in their careers, some people say that he is very satisfied with the life in front of him and does not want to change it; the dive saying of this is actually: Successful promotion and financial loss of career is neither an error nor a crime, so why do you have to change the situation? I asked well, but I shouldn't answer it. The only person who can answer this question is himself, and the premise is to be honest and honest with himself. What is said to be institutionalized by utilitarian society is to lose the ability to correctly understand inner needs. In fact, people who think they don't need to change often need to change the most. There is a saying: If you can't conquer yourself, you will be conquered by yourself.

Entering the second half from the first half, I don’t realize that I have to leave my original work. What needs to be changed is my mind. No matter how successful the things I do in the first half are, they are mostly affected by external perspectives. What I do in the second half can be partially mixed with the first half, but the development point is to be more conducive to developing and realizing oneself. It is unlikely that the content of life will not change at all, because the second half of the venue must be truly balanced in learning, work and leisure. This is very different from the traditional career where work is clearly led by everything, and the modeling method promotes and encourages work and life to be balanced.

※This article is excerpted from the publication of "Retirement at the age of 45, are you ready? 》