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

Based on his book, Passion Never Retires: Creating a Life and Work you Love and Never Want to Retire From Passion Never Retires will show seminar members how ‘to create a life and work you love and never want to retire from is replacing the traditional retirement as the core consideration when planning for the future.

Peter discusses the confluence of four modern trends that herald the end of retirement thinking as we know it:

The evolving pursuit of fulfillment 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.

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

How will you spend your time? You have 168 hours a week; how will you make those hours 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?

Practical Info

You can reach Peter for questions by mailing him at peterdekuster@hotmail.nl

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

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

About Peter de Kuster

Peter de Kuster is the founder of Passion Never Retires & The Heroine’s Journey & Hero’s Journey project, a storyteller which helps 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.

You can mail peter at peterdekuster@hotmail.nl.