Design Your Retirement Before It Designs You
I have been sitting with this one for a while, because it annoyed me before it clarified itself. A while back, I started noticing something in the conversations I was having with people in their late 40s and 50s. Smart people. Experienced people. People who had given decades to their careers and were starting to think – quietly, carefully, sometimes...
I want to tell you about a conversation I had with a woman I’ll call Claire. Claire was 54 and had been thinking about making changes to her life for a few years. She knew what she wanted – more space, more purpose, a health routine that didn’t rely entirely on good intentions and optimism, a clearer sense of what...
Picture this. It’s a Sunday afternoon sometime in the 1990s. Your dad is in his armchair – newspaper, cup of tea, television on in the background. He’s worked the same job for 30 years. He has a pension. He knows exactly what retirement looks like because everyone around him retired the same way. He’ll be fine. Now, picture yourself. You’re...
Let me ask you something, and I ask you to sit with it for a second. Is there something you’ve been meaning to start – really start – for months? Maybe longer? Something that matters to you, that you know MATTERS to you, and yet somehow keeps getting pushed to the next week, the next season, the next version of...