Design Your Retirement Before It Designs You
We have been thinking about retirement wrong. For most of our working lives, retirement has existed in our minds as an endpoint. The finish line. The thing you get to after decades of commuting, meetings, deliverables, and performance reviews. You cross it, you stop, and then – the assumption goes – life gets good. Except the research does not support...
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...