Don’t wait until retirement to do what you want!
Start doing what you want to do after retirement now
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If there’s one piece of advice I’d like to give anyone, it’s to start doing what you’d want to do in retirement now.
Do something you love, never have to work a day in your life, something like that? Or at least one version of it.
The traditional work method, work until you’re 60-odd and then have the time to do what you always wanted, well, that doesn’t quite cut it for me. For starters, I could end up like my dad, which I decidedly do not want to do.
A few years back, when I got the wake up call of my life, my dad dying mere years before retirement, I really started to wonder what I wanted to do with my life. More specifically, I thought about what I’d like to do when or if I was retired. And you know what?
I’m already doing it.
Not only will you get a head start, which can be important with endeavours involving a personal brand, crucially you also get to see whether you even like it or not.
And who knows, you may even find a way for it to support yourself financially. Wouldn’t that be a way to retire!
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