{"id":21982,"date":"2026-03-11T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/how-to-set-new-life-goals-after-retirement\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:14:01","slug":"how-to-set-new-life-goals-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/finding-life-purpose\/how-to-set-new-life-goals-after-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set New Life Goals After Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><em><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">Excerpted and adapted with permission from, <\/span><\/em><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">It\u2019s Never Too Late to Begin Again <em>(TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House) Copyright (c) 2016 by Julia Cameron<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/living-longer-living-better\/7-questions-to-help-you-spiritually-prepare-for-retirement\/\">When we come into our retirement<\/a>, we become our own boss. Accustomed as we may be to reaching goals set by, or at least involving, others, we are often unaccustomed to setting goals pertaining only to ourselves. Free-form writing first thing in the morning can help with that, and as we undertake the practice of writing those Morning Pages, we may find ourselves naturally setting self-determined goals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">I have a vinyl grocery bag printed with inspirational quotes. One of them urges setting goals on paper four times a year. <a href=\"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/7-daily-habits-to-reach-your-god-sized-goals\/\">Setting goals<\/a> sets your \u201cinner computer,\u201d the quote explains. I use Morning Pages to set my goals. My goals emerge on the page as desires. \u201cI\u2019d like to write a play, but about what?\u201d my pages may ask. And then, a day or so later, the wishes becomes an agenda. \u201cI\u2019ll start tomorrow,\u201d becomes \u201cI\u2019ll start today.\u201d As the goal becomes concrete, I find myself taking small steps in its direction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">\u201cI\u2019d like to feel more spiritual\u201d becomes the goal \u201cI\u2019d like to read more Ernest Holmes prayers.\u201d This in turn becomes the goal \u201cI\u2019ll read three prayers a night.\u201d Beginning as desires, my goals become plans. \u201cI wish I were more fit\u201d becomes \u201cI think I\u2019ll try jogging.\u201d This goal is fine-tuned to \u201cI\u2019d better start gently\u2013jog ten paces, walk ten paces, jog ten paces, walk ten paces.\u201d There is no area in my life that doesn\u2019t benefit from gentle goal setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">I can set goals in any arena I choose. Creativity, spirituality, fitness, and more. As I set goals, I transform the vague and undoable into the doable. \u201cI\u2019d like a new headshot\u201d becomes \u201cTalk to Robert about executing one.\u201d \u201cLose weight\u201d becomes \u201cMaybe I should talk to Dick about eating vegan. He\u2019s lost fifty pounds that way.\u201d Goals can start as musings, wishes, thoughts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/better-living\/positive-thinking\/how-to-turn-your-goals-into-habits\/\">as they come into form, action plans emerge<\/a>. We are getting to know ourselves\u2013a word a time\u2013and, a word at a time, we become empowered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">We can also set large goals in retirement, and it is not uncommon that at this point in your story, the larger goals are whispering to us. Sometimes we are well aware of them. Other times, they sneak up on us. We may feel jealous of others doing something we wish we could do, and it may take an outside eye to help us see what we are looking longingly at. \u201cMy jealousy was a clue to the goal I was avoiding,\u201d one of my students, Andrew, told me once. Now, Andrew has channeled jealousy into a<a href=\"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/prayer\/bible-resources\/deepen-your-faith\/4-tips-to-make-your-dreams-come-true\/\"> plan to achieve his goal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">Writing Morning Pages, keeps our goals in our sight. It is nearly impossible to write, day after day, and not have inklings of what we\u2019d like to do next. And these inklings, ignored, will only grow stronger. Working through our life story often puts us in touch with our authentic dreams. Naming our goal, we may then work backward, a technique my piano teacher calls \u201cchunking it down.\u201d We see the ultimate dream on the horizon, but between us and that horizon are many small steps. Remembering that each step is, in fact, accomplishable, we are able to move forward. A step at a time, we make progress forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">Moving ahead is always an option. Moving ahead, we are inspired to move ahead yet more. With the willingness to name our dream and then acknowledge\u2013and take\u2013the first step toward it, we move into the life we have previously only dreamed of. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;\"><span style=\",sans-serif;color: #5D5D5D;\">If you could choose one small goal that you can accomplish today <a href=\"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/guideposts-classic-finding-her-faith\/\">towards your dream<\/a>, what would it be?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted and adapted with permission from, It\u2019s Never Too Late to Begin Again (TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House) Copyright (c) 2016 by Julia Cameron. When we come into our retirement, we become our own boss. 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