{"id":2027,"date":"2014-06-09T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/retirement-not-word-in-my-vocabulary\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:00:24","slug":"retirement-not-word-in-my-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"Retirement — Not a Word in my Vocabulary!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We all have treasures inside of us — there’s skills, talents and potential that God put there, and it’s up to us to grow and develop them. If we don’t, we’ll find that “rocking chair” or “couch” — “just switching channels on the remote control” — becomes “that’s all there is” to us. We will have stopped growing and when we do, we’ll start dying to ambition, risk-taking, living life large, and refusing adventure and excitement. Did you know the wealthiest places on this earth are in cemeteries — where there are businesses that were never founded, songs that were never sung, books that were never written, potential never realiized?<\/p>\n

As for me (and, Judi Dench)…. I’m going to keep learning new skills, reading books, taking internet courses, going to seminars, gleaning from mentors. I refuse to coast through life. I don’t use the word “retirement” in my vocabulary. Retirement isn’t a word found in the Bible (my source of inspiration and how to live life). However, we can read about re-firement many times over. And, that’s me. I’m purposing to make the moments count — I’m going to keep on KEEPING ON….I am going to LIVE and GROW ON PURPOSE….and help a lot of other folks GROW ON PURPOSE with me!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all have treasures inside of us — there’s skills, talents and potential that God put there, and it’s up to us to grow and develop them. If we don’t, we’ll find that “rocking chair” or “couch” — “just switching channels on the remote control” — becomes “that’s all there is” to us. We will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2115,11923,11924,11925,9883,11926,11927,7760,6816,7547,2278,209,210,3261],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adventure","tag-couch","tag-grow-on-purpose","tag-judi-dench","tag-live-on-purpose","tag-living-life-large","tag-new-skills","tag-potential","tag-remote-control","tag-retirement","tag-rocking-chair","tag-skills","tag-talents","tag-treasures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}