| Now that you are nearing your retirement years, | | | | the real passion, but to be free and explore. Think |
| it might be time to finally find your life's passion. I | | | | about what your dreams are. Why do you dream |
| mean, what else are you going to do; sit on the | | | | them? What is it that your truly want out of the |
| porch in your rocker and wait for death? Many | | | | experience? If you can answer those questions it |
| people spend their whole life working in some job | | | | will be much easier to find your true passion. Once |
| that really is of no interest to them. Then comes | | | | you find the passion, you will be able to find a |
| the "golden years," and they find themselves | | | | way to meet it, even if you are beyond the age |
| wondering what to do with their time. Now is the | | | | most people think of as being able to live that life. |
| time to find your life passion. | | | | Do you want to travel? Why? Do you really need |
| What is it you always wanted to do? | | | | to see the Eiffel Tower, or is it the freedom of |
| When you were a kid, what is it you wanted to | | | | the road that you long for? Perhaps a trip down |
| do? When you sat in your cubicle all those years, | | | | old route 66 would fulfill that wanderlust just as |
| what is it you wished you could do? Can you find | | | | well. When you really dig you might find that it is a |
| those dreams again? Certainly, if you wanted to | | | | need to explore another country and that is fine. |
| be a rodeo star, it might be too late, but if you | | | | The point here is not to define right and wrong, |
| always wanted to ride horses and be out in the | | | | but to clearly understand what it is you want. |
| open air, it is not too late for that. You could go | | | | Why spend the time and money trying to do one |
| to a resort and live your dream, or you could buy | | | | thing when something else that is easier and |
| a horse and ride. | | | | cheaper is really the heart of it all? |
| The things we dream about are the things that | | | | Now is the time! |
| are our life passion. There are times when you | | | | Whether you are retired now or just drawing |
| have to dig a little to really define what the dream | | | | close, now is the time to start your planning. Don't |
| is. When we dream of becoming an astronaut, do | | | | let this opportunity pass you by! Although your |
| we really want to go into space, or do we want | | | | kids may not agree, you ain't dead yet! My |
| to explore and be out where, "no man has ever | | | | father-in-law went panning for gold in Alaska in his |
| gone before?" | | | | seventies. Did he find gold? Yes, but he found |
| Finding the true passion | | | | more than that. He found his life's passion! |
| I mentioned that being an astronaut may not be | | | | |