Since January this year, I’ve been semi-retired, working part-time for a great company and enjoying more free-time. Well, “enjoying” is kind of an interesting term – I think I’ve actually been struggling to figure out how to spend my additional free time. For now, I’ve been able to do most of my athletic training in the early afternoons instead of in the early morning (that reminds me – I need to remove the #dawnpatrol tag from my Instagram posts ?). I think the challenge for me is that for the last nearly 40 years, my goals were around work – landing a big projects and climbing the career ladder. Well, there’s no career ladder to climb anymore, so short of athletic goals and eventually catching a fish from my kayak, I don’t really have my sights set on anything.

I’ll write more about this in the coming days, but for now, I wanted to share a link to a video that I thought was helpful in thinking through how to approach retirement – Riley Moynes on how to “squeeze the juice” out of retirement. It’s a fairly short video and I think it’s mostly common sense, but I like the way he talks about the 4 stages of retirement (no spoilers – watch it yourself). I’ve mentioned this video to a bunch of friends so I thought I’d just post it here for future reference. Enjoy!