Why do you work? Five reasons to work is actually good for you

If you are 50 or more, or plan a day, here is a fact that may surprise you. Work, instead of going to board enrich your life and realize your dreams, especially if you work taps That what you are really good and feels like its own reward. You owe it to yourself to work to discover that all these requirements met.

Millions of adults are beginning to recognize this fact investigations AARP, or near retirement age. Youare redefining retirement, perhaps even the abolition of the concept, with creativity and passion, once considered the domain of people much younger. And this is a change for us all - political, economic, health, and everyone should take care to future success - celebrating.

"Our work largely what determines our lives," says Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on, bestselling author of Flow and professor at the School of Management PrintersClaremont Graduate University. Not surprisingly, most of us want to do a good job, a contribution to the lives of others, pride in what we do and we are treated and compensated fairly. Legitimate expectations of an activity, the number of casualties, if not most of our waking hours, would not you say?

But there are other benefits of working which are equally important, especially in middle life and beyond. Here are five good reasons you are looking for, you should keep the love and workworking time.

First nice job is the best approach available to maintain health, not to mention life extender. Our brain needs interesting challenges and tasks that connect us to all life, our whole life. (And the inclusion of juggling not cut the crossword.) Healthy mind, healthy body.

According to Money. It may seem obvious, but the truth is that a paycheck is one of the greatest pleasures of working hours. And 'certainly the best way to get free fromThe specter of "Running Out of Money" in subsequent years, a widespread fear among the elderly.

The third provides community work, social relationships, new ideas, the opportunity to stretch and grow, and the boundless creativity that nothing else can. A good life needs all this.

The fourth work allows us to offer unique talents and abilities to express, discover who we are and why we are here. After Roper research: "The performance of the work has become a universal fundamental value next to the family, freedom, loveand health. "

Each fifth is necessary. Many experts expect a global shortage of manpower in the near future, we can not spare anyone. Each of us must do something of value and provide a need. It is and always will be, to do more work than the locals.