Victory Lap Retirement

The key to a happy retirement may be . . . not retiring.

The rules of retirement have changed and there’s more at risk than ever. People are living longer and have to finance as many years in retirement as they had in their entire working career. So what will thirty or forty years, or more, in retirement look like for you?

The old idea of full-stop retirement—going from 100 per cent work mode to 100 per cent leisure mode—is now neither sustainable nor desirable. Besides, many studies have shown that those who stay engaged, challenged, and stimulated stay healthier and live longer.

The key is to work because you want to and not because you have to. Victory Lap Retirement shows you how to create the post-employment lifestyle that’s right for you—a unique blend of work and play that allows you to live life to the fullest, on your terms, while you are young enough to enjoy it.

• Attain the financial independence (Findependence) that will allow you to run your own unique Victory Lap—a special period in life with more balance, purpose, and fulfillment than ever before.
• Turn your paycheque into a “playcheque.”
• Create a life from which you don’t have to, or want to, retire.
• Intentionally design for yourself a vibrant, healthy, low-stress, sustainable lifestyle by staying active and engaged in a Victory Lap.
• Apply the principles of Victory Lap and Findependence at any age to redistribute your work, leisure, and retirement time: play a little more in your working years, and work a little in your post-employment leisure years . . . and have a longer, happier, healthier, more fulfilled life.