For the past 20 years I have been writing and speaking about the foolish notion of retirement.  My old adage is that the Soul

doesn’t come here to retire.  It is a man-made construct and gives people the false sense that somehow they can stop working, planning, being productive and creating new careers.  The Soul doesn’t come to earth to retire.  It has a long blueprint even going out 120 years and some of the most productive years are from 60 onward.  Finally, there are some statistics to support this thinking.  Not only have we shortened our lives by planning on retirement, getting monies together so we can live on less, or have enough to last as long as we do–or not, heaven forbid; we begin to accept the deterioration of our health as if that should go along with our ideas about retirement.

In today’s Wall St. Journal is …