Q: Matt, one of my favorite books by Dr. Maltz was Creating Living for Today. In the book he taught to never retire but instead to remain creatively alive. Can you expand on this?
A: Creative Living for Today is also one of my favorites. The way I look at this subject is as follows: You can “retire” from an occupation but you never retire from life. You focus on doing something else, on being creatively alive. When you are in the process of creating something new, you RENEW your energy, which gives you more life, more get up and go. To “retire” means to get tired again. To “renew” means to become new again. Which would you rather do? To me, being tired is one of life’s greatest miseries. Being renewed, however, is one of life’s greatest mysteries.
Matt Furey
