Passion Never Retires

Retirement at age 65 is an artificial finish line that no longer fits our time.

Based on his seminal project online, Passion Never Retires: Create the Life and Work You Love and Never Want to Retire From will show audience members how ROH (Return on Happiness—getting the best life possible with the money you have) is replacing ROI as the core consideration when planning for the future.

This presentation will discuss the confluence of four modern trends that herald the end of retirement thinking as we know it:

The evolving pursuit of happiness in our times.
The end of the paternalistic employer.
The advent of dismantling ageism.
Distribution-driven Armageddon for financial services.

Growing old with lots of money is no longer the goal. Dying rich can’t compete with living rich, and making a living doesn’t measure up to making a life. When the idea of retirement was born, people traded physical capital for a paycheck—and it was a practical necessity for people to retire. As a knowledge-based economy, intellectual capital, experiential capital, and relational capital are traded for a paycheck, leaving only one question to answer regarding the appropriate time to retire: What is the expiration date on my intellectual capital and on my experience? What those people still working in their 70s and even 80s will tell you is that they would be dead if they had not continued to engage their intellectual faculties.

People with a Passion Never Retires mindset understand the characteristics of Passion Never Retires :

Passion: If you don’t engage your body or your brain, you lose them.
Purpose: Money can fund purpose, but it cannot create purpose.
Portfolio: There needs to be a balance in your Portfolio life between vacation and vocation.
Power: You tell yourself a powerful story about yourself to yourself which makes you engage in physical, intellectual, and spiritual challenges which are the hallmarks of those who continue to thrive as they age.

Passion Never Retires will help audience members find answers to the following questions:

How will you spend your time? You have 168 hours a week; how will you make those hours passionate and meaningful?
How will you invest yourself? How will you parlay what you know, what you’ve experienced, and who you are into the next phase of your life?

Peter will inspire and ignite participants as he challenges them. He has been challenging and inspiring people around the world for close to 15 years with his unique insights into creating a life and work you love and never want to retire from. Seminar participants will walk away from this exciting experience with a new story (and vision) of what Passion Never Retires is and means for them and their clients.

Join us for a truly transformational vacation for the mind.

Read on for a detailed breakdown of the Passion Never Retires itinerary.

What Can I Expect?

Here’s an outline of the Passion Never Retires speech

Journey Outline

PART I OLD RETIREMENT MYTHS

65 is old
Retirement is Only about Money
To Retire = Not Working
A Life of Ease is the Ultimate Retirement Goal
Remove Artificial Finish Lines
Illusions, Delusions and Hypes

PART II. YOUR NEW STORY

The Premise of your Story. The Purpose of your Life and Art
The words on your tombstone
Your ultimate mission, out loud
Your Story about Working Longer
Your Story about Living Longer
The Seven Great Plots
The Twelve Archetypal Heroines
The One Great Story
Purpose is Never Forgettable
Questioning the Premise
Lining up
Flawed Alignment, Tragic Ending
The Three Rules in Storytelling
Write Your New Story

PART III PASSION NEVER RETIRES

Re-inventing Retirement – New Pathways
Passion Never Retires Coaching Works
The Real Meaning of Work
Brain at Work
Invest in Who You Are
Collecting a Play Check
Turning your story into action
The Story Effect
Story Ritualizing
The Storyteller and the art of story
The Power of Your Story
Storyboarding your creative process

PART IV THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Staying in the Zone
Trust the Force
The Power of Flow
From Success to Purpose
Meaningful Pursuits
Your Next 100.000 Miles
From Aging to S- Aging

PART V REDEFINING RICH

Bridging the Gap between Means and Meaning
The Seven Intangibles
Return on Life
Your Portfolio Life
The Money/Life Puzzle
Collecting Income for Life
Maslow meets Money (Safety Money, Freedom Money, Money to Give, Dream Money)
The Financial Freedom to Have a Creative Life

Book Peter to Speak

Almost ten years after launching the Passion Never Retires project, business storyteller Peter de Kuster remains an irreverent, forceful voice—inspiring people to follow their passion, create their own legend and change the face of business.

Speeches typically run 60-90 minutes but can be adjusted to client needs
Each presentation is highly customized and reflects the industry and priorities of the client
Exploratory conversations with key client executives prior to the speech, along with research into the company and its industry, help tailor content
Peter offers his thinking on the storytelling subject area and share the insightful exemplars that best suit the audience
Informal Q&A sessions supplementing the speech also help promote greater interaction and understanding.

All speech topics can also be adapted to either full or half-day breakout sessions or workshops with facilitated individual and group exercises. With a generous array of formats and topics, a custom experience reflecting your business needs is right within your grasp.

To learn more about having Peter speak at your event or to book him for a private tour contact us at http://www.peterdekuster@hotmail.nl

About Peter de Kuster

Peter de Kuster is the founder of Passion Never Retires, The Heroine’s Journey & Hero’s Journey project, a storytelling firm which helps creative professionals to create careers and lives based on whatever story is most integral to their lifes and careers (values, traits, skills and experiences). Peter’s approach combines in-depth storytelling and marketing expertise, and for over 20 years clients have found it effective with a wide range of creative business issues.

Peter is writer of the series The Heroine’s Journey and Hero’s Journey books, he has an MBA in Marketing, MBA in Financial Economics and graduated at university in Sociology and Communication Sciences.