Favre-well: The Right Way to Retire March 9, 2008
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Life/Misc
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Show Description: Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers announced his retirement this week after a 17-year career in the NFL. It got me thinking about retirement, and how there is definitely a right and a wrong way to do it. Join the conversation as we look at what to do with those glorious years after the work is done.
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Allen's Legal Pad for Favre-well: The Right Way to Retire
Have to admit – Favre was a man's man
17 years in the NFL
275 games started in a row – records for TD, yards, one of top 5 of all time
Jaworski had the record before – 116 games
More than doubled it
Had a job every man in Green Bay and 80% of American men would do anything to have
Packers QB
And this week he walked away
Knew when to call it a day – rare trait
Most stay too long – entitled, trapped by debt, health, family
Mentally tired – at age 39
And now Favre has the chance to reinvent self
That is what retirement is about
Not Denny's, RV, early bird specials, bus tours, building collections of spoons
Not sitting around bugging your wife at the house
Or hanging around folks who are working watching them work - gadfly
Or drinking coffee at the diner
Convinced that retirement the way we look at it now – immoral
In fact, morally wrong – immoral
Never put it in park, and then wait for death
Bowden – won't step aside – knows what the next big event is
Reinvent self – give, serve, love
Freed from some of stresses of daily living and earning income
God not done with me yet
Bigger vision for life than reach 62, 65, 67 or 70 and then cash it in
Payday broke Payday broke Retirement death
Hope Favre retires with grace – only 39
Could invest self in coaching kids, championing a cause like Katrina rebuilding
Perhaps be a farmer and advise or mentor young men in community
Know nothing about his faith life – know he has matured beyond hedonism of youth into a loving father and husband
Done great things for his communities (EG)
take that wisdom and advise NFL players or other athletes for that matter – stuck in middle school maturity level
But use it well – make the second half count
What is the right way to retire?
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