Purposeful Point: Today’s podcast is about a purposeful possibility the possibility of designing your later years in life as an encore performance.

Let’s start with a little background.  A few years ago I realized that many of us Baby Boomers have been sold a fantasy. Now, I love fantasy — reading fantasy novels, and yes, even writing them, but I don’t enjoy living in a fantasy world.  But we Baby Boomers have been led to believe a fantasy about our later years, what is typically referred to as our “retirement years” or the “Golden Years.”  The fantasy is that by the time we reach sixty-five we’ll quit work so we can move to a Sun City type retirement community where we’ll fill our days with golf, tennis, and shuffleboard until we pass quietly from this world a few years later.

I mention Sun City intentionally, because, according to Marc Freedman, author of Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life (an excellent book by the way) and the founder of Civic Ventures, it was the developer of the Sun Cities, Delbert E. Webb, who invented this concept of the Golden Years starting on January 1, 1960 when the first Sun City opened.

You see Del Webb was not only a great real estate developer, he was a master marketer and entrepreneur. But at the time he created the “Golden Year” fantasy, no one including Webb thought we boomers would end up living more than a few years after retirement.  But, as author Marc Freedman points, over the last few decades we’ve stretched those “retirement years from a brief hiatus that was supposed to cover the few remaining years between disability and death and turned it into a period lasting fifteen, twenty, twenty-five years.” That’s as much as a third of a person’s life.

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