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At 98, John gave up driving—but not the volunteer work he loved. He simply moved into the passenger seat and carried on. His story made me think about the power of curiosity as we grow older. Curiosity keeps us interested in life. It encourages us to learn, connect, adapt and imagine new possibilities. And it supports the four ingredients I believe are central to a fulfilling retirement: energy, connection, purpose and vision. When I first retired, I thought I needed to answer one enormous question: What am I going to do with the rest of my life? Eventually, I discovered a much more useful question: What am I curious about next? In this video, I explore how following one thread of curiosity at a time helped me find my way through the uncertainty of retirement—and why we are never too old to remain open to what might come next. Take the free Retirement Thrive Score to see how you’re doing across energy, connection, purpose and vision: https://thrive.jeanettebrown.net/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=centenarian I’d also love to hear from you in the comments: What are you curious about next? #Retirement #HealthyAgeing #Curiosity #PurposeAfterRetirement #LifeAfter60 #PositiveAgeing
I came across a remarkable 100-year-old — and he changed how I think about ageing

I came across a remarkable 100-year-old — and he changed how I think about ageing

At 98, John gave up driving—but not the volunteer work he loved. He simply moved into the passenger seat and carried on. His story made me think about the power of curiosity as we grow older. Curiosity keeps us interested in life. It encourages us…
If you retire at 65 and live to 90, you get around 1,300 ordinary Tuesdays. Almost nobody plans for those. This is the last video in the four-ingredients series — Connection, Purpose, Energy and Vision. Vision is the one most often mistaken for a bucket list. A bucket list is a collection of exceptions. A vision is what your ordinary week looks like when it's working. It's a short lesson drawn from my retirement course: a one-page exercise that turns four abstract ingredients into a single ordinary day that's unmistakably yours. 📝 THE EXERCISE (starts at 2:30) Take a sheet of paper. At the top, write: An ordinary Tuesday in my retirement Imagine it's two or three years from now. Not a birthday. Not Christmas. Not the first morning of a holiday. Just a Tuesday. Then answer six questions: Where are you? What happens that morning? Who do you talk to? What gets you out of the house — or happily keeps you in it? What are you doing that makes you lose track of time? Is there anything coming up that you're genuinely looking forward to? The size of the dream isn't what matters. The having of one does. 🎯 WHICH INGREDIENT NEEDS YOUR ATTENTION? Take the free Thrive quiz — 2 minutes, personalised: https://thrive.jeanettebrown.net?utm_source=youtube ▶️ WATCH THE FULL SERIES https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHZcYmEQ06s CHAPTERS 0:00 1,300 ordinary Tuesdays 1:00 The four ingredients 1:29 What a vision actually is 2:30 The exercise — your ordinary Tuesday 3:38 My own vision 4:28 The one thing to do this fortnight 4:56 The quiz, and thank you 5:22 The series
A vision, not a list

A vision, not a list

If you retire at 65 and live to 90, you get around 1,300 ordinary Tuesdays. Almost nobody plans for those. This is the last video in the four-ingredients series — Connection, Purpose, Energy and Vision. Vision is the one most often mistaken for a bucket…
Most retirement advice about energy is about sleep, food, willpower. This video is different. It’s about the one thing that protects your capacity to feel joy as you age — and it isn’t what most people think. 🟢 Try the free Thrive quiz (2 minutes, personalised reflection): https://thrive.jeanettebrown.net 📖 Mentioned in this video: Kelly McGonigal, The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage (Penguin, 2019). Subscribe for the last of the series: #4 Vision — next week 0:09 The 13% nobody talks about 0:39 The four ingredients 1:35 What Kelly McGonigal found 2:59 My birthday dance party 3:40 One thing to try this week 4.17 The quiz, the series, what’s next
Keeping fit is not the same as feeling alive

Keeping fit is not the same as feeling alive

Most retirement advice about energy is about sleep, food, willpower. This video is different. It’s about the one thing that protects your capacity to feel joy as you age — and it isn’t what most people think. 🟢 Try the free Thrive quiz (2 minutes,…
Work handed you people every day — colleagues, clients, someone to say good morning to. Retirement quietly took that structure away. This is the first minute of the story; the full video is linked on this Short. And my free 2-minute Retirement Thrive Score can tell you if connection is what your retirement is quietly asking about: https://thrive.jeanettebrown.net #retirement #connection #loneliness #retirementlife #secondact
Work gave you people. Then it stopped.

Work gave you people. Then it stopped.

Work handed you people every day — colleagues, clients, someone to say good morning to. Retirement quietly took that structure away. This is the first minute of the story; the full video is linked on this Short. And my free 2-minute Retirement Thrive Score can…
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