The 4 Mind Bending Retirement Ideas I Accept in My 40s I Wished I Knew in My Late 30s

100s of conversations can change lives

I speak to people living their retirement. Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash

Retirement brings fear to me.

It does. It is the fear of the unknown. I didn’t have that fear 5 years ago.

I was 36 years old 5 years ago. Then, my mind was sharp the entire day. I could work at midnight.

My body was the fittest it had ever been. I enjoyed double workouts on Saturdays for marathon training.

With time, I am no longer the same old me.

From what I know to what I want to know

The changes I experienced gave birth to the origins of my retirement side project.

It came to me that I knew sh!t about retirement until I speak to real retirees. I was risking my retirement on assumptions.

That brought me out of my turtle shell.

My goal was to extract thematic challenges and cover those holes before I retire… if I do.

Mindbending Retirement Idea # 1: Don’t be a cheap

In my 20s, everyone told me to save for my future.