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The First Question You Need to Answer When Defining Your Retirement Life

Richard / July 12, 2018

I’ve had a hard time figuring out what I want my life in retirement to look like. With the guardrails of job and career removed, who do I even want to be? What do I want to do? I was trying to run in several directions at the same time and getting nowhere. It seemed …

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Retirement and My Corporate America Anti-Bucket List

Richard / July 11, 2018

So, like normal, I did the thing that everyone says not to do. The conventional wisdom says, “don’t retire away from something – you must retire to something.” I had no idea what I was retiring to. None. I don’t play golf, I don’t have any grandchildren, I don’t garden. I had no idea how …

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My First Year in Retirement

Richard / July 4, 2018

It’s been a little over a year since I walked away from a perfectly good job and retired. It seems like a good time to look back and see how things are going and what I’ve learned. I understand a lot more now about life in retirement than I did a year ago. The truth …

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