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Finding work-life balance

um, would be don't spend all your time working. Make sure you have time for your leisure. Get that work-life balance. Right, cuz you you sort of struggled with that, did you? Ye...

Course: Life stories and relationshipsSection: Retirement and life adviceSubtitles: en

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more,

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um, would be don't spend all your time

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working. Make sure you have time for

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your leisure. Get that work-life

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balance. Right, cuz you you sort of

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struggled with that, did you? Yeah, you

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can short you can, uh, not pay enough

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attention to your family, maybe. You

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have to have projects, I think. You have

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to have things to

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a goals to achieve, you know? You I

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think what In retirement, you were

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saying about advice, I'd say you don't

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want to just drift, you know? You've got

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to

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cuz if you've been working and you've

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got a routine and there there's obvious

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goals are set by other people often, but

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you've still got goals to achieve. Um,

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it's very difficult to just sort of

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switch off. If you switch off from that

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completely and have nothing, it, um,

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I think that could be really depressing.

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Shel Silverstein, I've got a little, uh,

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sticker on my thing which says

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anything can happen child, any

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anything can be. Think something like

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that. And what does that mean?

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>> Just that anything is possible, right?

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So

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you you might you we all have

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limitations. We but they're

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self-imposed.

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In actual fact there are no limits to

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what you can do and you can make you can

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make the life you want.

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And my advice would be to make sure that

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you have time for your five

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grandchildren. Oh, okay. Cuz [laughter]

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