Life After Full-time Work Blog

Are there national or cultural characteristics that shape our feelings?

I was interviewed at the annual Academic Forum of the (US) Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association

We waste so much time doing unproductive things, Ernie Zelinski reminds us.

He greatly influenced how I view life

When something big happens, whether it’s positive or negative, it’s an opportunity to change our thinking. Here’s how.

Introducing the stages in Route 1 of Freedom, Time, Happiness

Here’s the story of a couple who actually did a “dry run” to test how their retirement might work. In this post we’ll explore the why and the how with them.

You’re not the first to embark on this stage of the journey. Learn from the experience of others.

When we retire, we know what we’re leaving. But we don’t often know what we’re going to. In this post we’ll see why it’s unhealthy to contemplate a blank future, and why it’s important to recognize that we’ll probably transition gradually, not jump instantly, into a new lifestyle.

Mostly we don’t think about life after work until it gets really near. Then there’s little time to adjust, and we might find the transition scary. But you can learn from the ideas I’ve grabbed here from others — and you may actually have done something similar before.