It's ok to want to have fun in retirement
The world is a tough place right now, and that’s before we come onto any personal physical or mental health issues, or challenging relationships.
Having fun, or even wanting to have fun, can seem frivolous.
And it can be a tough adjustment to move from a career of professional purpose into your next stage of life.
Where will your sense of purpose come from? What will you do to bring meaning into your life?
These are certainly questions to explore and address, and something I engage with a lot through coaching programmes, workshops and in these retirement life planning blog posts.
I have also written about hobbies as personal development. An opportunity for growth, to improve our skills, for ourselves as individuals.
But today I want to advocate for fun and being comfortable with wanting to have fun.
When we think about retirement, some of the heavier questions above are our primary focus, and understandably so.
But focusing so intensely on purpose and trying to transfer the way we used to live and work to this new stage of life, can lead to us feeling stuck and unable to move forward.
So let’s use fun as a tool to reset. To laugh and breathe. To feel lighter and more energised.
In creating space for fun and accepting that it’s ok to want to have fun, we can also create space to gain perspective.
And from that space, we’re in a better place to focus on questions of purpose and meaning.
What will you do to make room for more fun in your life?
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