A month ago, at the “3 years to retirement” kick-off, I committed to looking at 12 different areas of my life over the next year. The areas are ones that are likely to be important to me in my retirement. How did I do in month 1? First and foremost, I figured out what this next year is going to look like as a process. I realized that the work is not really about answering all of the questions and creating my retirement plan; instead, it is about coming up with the pre-questions that I’ll need so that I can … Continue reading →

I find that some of the things I’m focusing on this month with health and EOL are not really about retirement so much as the end of retirement aka death. End of life as I know it. The great dirt nap. And my legal analysis is pretty tied to that too. I don’t have much that I need to do on the legal side to retire. There is ONE thing on my list, and it is part of finance more so than legal, but it has a legal component. The basic question is whether or not I’ll generate any income … Continue reading →

I already addressed spiritual stuff, but this next area is a doozy. It combines a combination of three inter-related questions: In my opinion, they are all variations on the same theme. At what point does the life I have become a life I no longer want to continue? A side quest into my mind I’m going to go sideways for a minute. There is a TV episode I saw some time ago, a procedural of some sort. Something like Castle, Mentalist, or Bones. I can’t remember and can’t find it. Anyway, they go to a scientist’s house, investigate an apparent … Continue reading →