PURPOSE

Discover and Live Your Purpose through My Plan After 50

Here’s an interesting juxtaposition of the Boomer generation’s search for meaning, both from 1966:
“What’s it all about, Alfie, is it just for the moment we live?”
“I hope I die before I get old.”
If the line from the theme song of the movie, Alfie, expresses one’s search for life purpose, life meaning, Pete Townshend’s lyrical exasperation at our parents’ misunderstanding of us as youth  encapsulates a certain fatalism, perhaps even hopelessness and meaninglessness.

Regardless of which most resonated for you in the 60s (very likely, it was both!), something happens to people—and will happen to most Boomers—as we move through life after 50. It gets triggered by the looming awareness of this thing called mortality. We typically first encounter it in aging parents, then in our own aging bodies. It is the undeniable reminder that, for all our Boomer discussions and planning about such life-after-50 issues as retirement, how we’re investing our time and money, and the like, each of us has an appointment with death in our future. It’s an appointment that will be kept! (Or, as someone once said: “Live each day as if it will be your last. One day, you’ll be right!”)

With few exceptions, the reality of death adds depth of meaningfulness to life (that which is limited is more valuable) and a desire to discover the answer to the question, “Why am I here?” What is your life’s purpose? When you meet new people, is there a “you” you can describe apart from what you do, your job or title? Are you investing as much into fulfilling your purpose as you’re investing in things that don’t really matter.

Ours is not to decide or define for you your life purpose. But we take your life and its meaningfulness seriously. And so, within My Plan After 50 you’ll discover a depth of resources on which to draw to become an agent of change, whether that be for yourself alone, your life partner, family, neighborhood, community—even the world!

The My Plan After 50 resources include:

• Articles concerning a purpose-directed life
• Tools for self-directed life planning, including the My Plan After 50 workbook
• Purpose-related blog topics and webinars
• Life and retirement coaching

Here, too, you can create and grow with online communities of other Boomers engaged in similar purpose-led lives.

Explore all the rich resources available to you as a MEMBER of My Plan After 50.