The Secret to Happiness After Fifty

For most of us the first reminder that we are officially in the second half of life is when we get our invitation letter to join the American Association of Retired Persons. When I received mine, retirement was the furthest thing from my mind. I was busy launching a new business and excited and scared because I very much wanted this venture to succeed. It is only in retrospect that I understood that I was truly in the second half of life stage since my focus now was to be doing something that would make me happy.

When we are around age fifty we begin to focus inward to figure out what would make us happy. Prior to that we may have been busy with careers and or raising children and having more outer directed lives. Now comes the life stage where we want to complete ourselves. Those of us who have been very busy with our careers want to enhance our personal relationships. Those of us who have been more focused on raising children and in jobs that were not satisfying want to take a path that we can be passionate about. HAPPINESS at this stage of life becomes very important to us.

There are three steps for creating happiness:

1. Figuring out what gives us happiness. This can be accomplished by trusting that the answers to what we need to create happiness are inside us.

2. Be willing to invest time and energy into self-care. Having good physical and emotional health are vital at this stage of life because it takes energy to make changes and start something new.

3. The joy is in the journey. It is the sense of accomplishment by pursuing something that truly matters that creates happiness and more energy.

The Secret of Happiness is within each of us. We have to take responsibility for our growth. Our capacity to grow as human beings is a life long journey. It is when we neglect and limit our potential that we become dissatisfied. The answer is that if in order to enjoy our lives we have to put energy into creating our happiness.

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Kristina von Rosenvinge teaches self-growth and relationship skills for personal and business success. She specializes in helping people in their second half of life make this the best time of their life.