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The Next Edit - Issue # 66 (opens the original)
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🧠One Big IdeaThere’s a word that comes up constantly when we talk about what happens after a long career: reinvention.We’re encouraged to reinvent ourselves, find our second act, discover a new purpose, build a new identity. It feels like the thing do to …but is it?After 30 or 40 years of building a life, accumulating experiences, developing expertise, creating relationships, and figuring out who we are, why would the goal suddenly be to become someone completely different?That sounds (and feel
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🧠One Big IdeaFor most of our lives, retirement has been described as an ending.You work. You save. You build a career.And then, at some point, you stop.Even the word retirement suggests withdrawal — stepping away from something you’ve been doing for decades.But the more I talk to people about their experiences, I just don’t think it fits what is really happening at this stage of life. Most of the people I talk to are not “retiring” they are actually “rewiring”.Or, as I’ve started to think of it:
The Next Edit - Issue # 65 (opens the original)
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🧠One Big IdeaFor most of my career, a full calendar meant I was having a productive week.Meetings, calls, deadlines, projects, lunch a my desk. There was always somewhere to be and something that needed to get done.And, if I’m honest, there was something satisfying about it.Being busy made me feel good.People needed me.Things were happening.I was getting sh*t done.Then once day, it all felt like too much. I wanted more time, more freedom with fewer obligations. I wanted to control my time and wh
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🧠One Big IdeaLast week I wrote about time.About how we spend decades planning how to make our money last, but far less time thinking about how we want to spend our days.Which got me thinking about something else we do with time.We save the good stuff for later.When I retire, I’ll travel more. When work slows down, I’ll see my friends.When the kids are settled, I’ll take that class.When things aren’t so busy, I’ll get back in shape.Someday I’ll...You can probably finish that sentence yourself.
The Next Edit - Issue # 63 (opens the original)
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🧠One Big IdeaWe spend decades thinking about how much money we will need for retirement. We calculate, save, invest, count and recount. All to make sure we have “enough” to stop working and start living. But there is another asset we have to manage that get far less attention.Time. For most of our working lives we complain we don’t have enough of it. Our days are spoken for. Work takes the biggest chunk, and family, friends, exercise, hobbies and everything else gets squeezed into what’s left. T
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