{"id":1386,"date":"2019-03-28T21:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intrinsicwealthcounsel.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2023-01-20T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:35:31","slug":"the-purpose-of-work-in-the-second-half-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intrinsicwealthcounsel.com\/intrinsic-blog\/the-purpose-of-work-in-the-second-half-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose Of \u201cWork\u201d In The Second Half Of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1386\" class=\"elementor elementor-1386\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6424b8ff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6424b8ff\" 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becoming.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"Body\">For many, the path to self-actualization is through their \u201cwork\u201d\u2014which should be defined as the productive activities, paid or unpaid, that gives their lives meaning and a sense of purpose. \u00a0Helen Harkness wrote that linking work to the need for meaning has been a natural evolution:<\/p><p class=\"Body\"><i>\u201cFor the generation following the Depression and World War II, a \u2018job<\/i><i>\u2019<\/i><i>\u2014stable lifetime work that pays the bills\u2014was the goal.\u00a0 Later, the achievers focused on a \u2018career\u2019 in a particular profession such as law, banking, medicine, teaching, or management as the means to success.\u00a0 Today we are adding another dimension: discovering our \u2018calling\u2019 or \u2018<\/i><i>vocation<\/i><i>\u2019\u2014work with a deeper purpose or meaning, assuring us that each has something unique to offer.\u201d<\/i><i><\/i><\/p><p class=\"Body\">This new view of the purpose of \u201cwork\u201d is particularly important to the millions of Baby Boomers who are approaching or living in the second half of their lives.\u00a0 A number of surveys have shown that the majority of Baby Boomers plan to work beyond the time they are eligible to retire.\u00a0 In <i>Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life, <\/i>contributing author Ed Speedling wrote:<\/p><p class=\"Body\"><i>\u201cMany individuals feel compelled to work for financial or psychological or social reasons, or for all three, yet they want to choose how they work and what they work for.\u00a0 Instead of liberation from labor entirely, they see an extra measure of freedom\u2014in many cases to swap money for meaning, to do work that they couldn<sup>\u2019<\/sup>t afford to do earlier but can do now that children have grown and other ambitions have waned.\u201d<\/i><\/p><p class=\"Body\">Similarly, in her book <i>I Could Do Anything if I Only Knew What it Was,\u00a0<\/i>Barbara Sher explained that the first step to finding work that \u201cfits\u201d is to understand the connection between doing what we love and doing something worth doing.<\/p><p class=\"Body\">She wrote that it is at this intersection that we will find\u00a0<b>meaning<\/b>.\u00a0 In fact, because self- actualization is at the very pinnacle of the hierarchy of needs, Barb Sher reminds us all of how lucky we are to live in a free and prosperous society:\u00a0 \u201cIt is a tribute to the success of our culture that so many of us have the freedom to search for our own life\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Reprinted by permission of Money Quotient, NP<b><\/b><\/p><p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals in mid-life and beyond are increasingly viewing retirement not as a 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