Matching Your Retirement Activities with What Drives You

Do you want to ensure that you have planned for arresting, intriguing activities after you have left your work and family responsibilities? Consider what your "drivers" have been throughout your life. What experiences have turned you on? What made you stay at a job even though you were not entirely satisfied? What did you love doing as a teenager or young adult?

Don't Retire, Rewire: 5 Steps to Fulfilling Work That Fuels Your Passion, Suits Your Personality, or Fills Your Pocket by Sedlar and Miners provides a list of 85 drivers. They ask the reader to list and prioritize their top 10. Some of them are:

• Accomplishment
• Be in control
• Ego Boost
• Sense of belonging
• Mentoring others
• Getting respect
• Intellectual stimulation
• Built in social network

How will you get your drivers fulfilled when you retire? If you don't, you might feel bereft, deprived, bored. List all the things that create meaning for you in your everyday activities. What makes you feel valued? What has stimulated you or inspired you?