Green Retirement Blog

Is work affecting your health? Hurting your relationships? Do you find yourself constantly thinking about work? Do you take your laptop and cellphone on vacation? If you answered yes, to any of these questions, then you may be addicted to work. You may be a “Workaholic”! You should seek immediate help, otherwise, if you are un-lucky enough, you may experience a “Karoshi“, the Japanese word for “Death from too much work.”

Here in the United States, an organization exists to help people overcome their addiction to work, “Workaholics Anonymous.” They have over 50 self-help groups around the country, which follow the traditional 12 Step Program, for dealing with other addictions such as Alcohol and Drugs. Workaholics may also want to consider working with a life coach, or psychotherapist, to try and overcome their addiction.

While such programs may help  workaholics, find balance between work and life, they do nothing to reduce the number of working years.  And though, retirement is not the cure for workaholism, Green Retirement Planning may enable people to re-focus their obsessive compulsive behavior in a more productive and positive direction.

Green Retirement puts work into perspective.  Instead, of work being a person’s source of identity, it becomes simply a source of retirement savings. This of course, causes the person to make better career decisions, and to take advantage of opportunities.  Relationships at work, and at home improve, as co-workers and family are not viewed as competitors.

Green Retirement Planning may be attractive to workaholics, who would otherwise shun retirement planning, due to  the incredible control Green Retirement gives a person over their retirement and future.  With Green Retirement a person can control, at what age they wish to retire, and with how much savings.  Green Retirement goes far beyond picking the right 401k plan.

If you believe you, or a loved one may be suffering from an addiction to work,  it may be time to seek professional help and to discover Green Retirement Planning.  Try our Free Retirement Analysis and find out if you can stop working today.