Welcome to Designing Retirement!

If the Global Pandemic did nothing else, it has made a lot of people including me realize that we can take nothing for granted. Life should be held in the highest regard and good times don’t always just happen. We have to be open to new possibilities and new adventures. As we try new things without fearing critics or naysayers, we need to seize our time now and enjoy every minute.

Why Designing Retirement? 

Webster’s dictionary says that design means:  to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to plan; to devise for a specific function or end

This is the time of our lives that we have worked toward and worked hard for.   But it’s also at the time of our lives where the yardstick of our lives is getting shorter. I don’t want to get into a routine of daily living that doesn’t get us to do some of the things that are on our “bucket” list.  In other words, I don’t want us to get into a rut.  We need to design our retirement lives as we have the various homes we have owned and trips we have planned. We want it to be designed to be comfortable and easy living and to be fun and stimulating.  It needs to be all about some great new adventures and meeting new people and making new friends.

There are many blogs that show you how to retire from a financial aspect.  You know… how to invest, when to take the money, etc.  This is not one of those. These are the opinions and ideas of a semi-retired person. This is a series of stories, ideas, and tips to share with a little humor and a lot of humility as we design our retirement journey.

So click on Posts above and come join me for the adventure!