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Navigating the 4 Phases of Retirement: Your Journey

23 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube talk by Chris Collins describing a four-phase emotional journey through retirement: (1) initial euphoria, (2) a downturn or mild depression from loss of work-related identity and routines, (3) experimentation and reinvention ("Chris 2.0") via activities like charity and socializing, and (4) discovering a new calling (speaker gives a local Los Angeles example about his team's role in water delivery as an instance of post-retirement purpose).

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You know, in retirement. You go through four phases in retirement. The first phase is called euphoria, where, you know, happy dance. The second phase of retirement is actually a little bit of depression because you've lost your identity. You lost your co workers, you lost your morning coffee routine. You lost, you know, kind of the. The need to be booked every 30 minutes for a meeting on Outlook, right? So you lose all that, so you lose your identity. You get a bit depressed. The third phase of retirement is when you. You reinvent yourself. You try different things. You do some charity work, you go hang out with your friends, but you try to create your version 2.0 like, you know, like a Chris 2.0, and then you hit. Phase four of Chris 1.0 was before retirement. Chris 2.0 after retirement. You may not be aware, but if you live in Los Angeles, in the greater Los Angeles area, and you turn on the faucet and the water flows, that means that my team and I had something to do with it. Phase four is where you saw and you found your new calling.