Happy Second Act

When I retired about five years ago, I had this deep craving to like start another business or do something big. And I told myself, you're not going to start another business or do anything big until you can explain to yourself why you want to do that.

If you've been watching my videos from the beginning of my retirement, you've seen me kind of struggle with like how I perceive the value of my time in retirement. And it started with, I need to be doing meaningful, valuable things with my time.

I've been thinking a lot about why is it I enjoy writing software, working on the house, digging a trench, whatever it is. Why do I enjoy it so much now that I'm retired?

One of the highest callings that a retiree can rise to, nay, the highest calling a retiree can rise to, is keeping spammers and cold callers on the phone. I have to tell you that I feel like I've turned it into an art form.

If you were around in the beginning of my retirement journey, you heard me say a bunch of times that I'm not going back to work until I can answer the question, why do I want to go back to work? Because I was convinced that the only reason I wanted to go back to work was because work was what gave me meaning.

What are five things that I did to deprogram my capitalism programming after retirement? This is a great question, mostly because it's a list.

As a retired person, I'm not going to pull up the ladder behind me. One of the more common comments I've been getting recently has been along the lines of, Bill, I liked you a lot better when you were doing retirement content.

Something I just realized about retirement is that I've noticed that now I savor certain tasks. And I know that's kind of a weird word to use, but it's the word that comes to mind.