Finally got back to this … This concept of “enough” is just critical to my own decision to retire and reshape my life away from the corporate work world I had ceased to be satisfied by. My wife and I made quite a study of “enough”: how much we really needed to live on in a given year; what allowances we’d want to afford ourselves over the course of time; and then the key question of whether we had accumulated enough assets to kick free of what I lovingly call the “bullshit machine.” For us, COVID was the big clarifier: it ended work travel, forced us to cook at home, redefined how we’d entertain ourselves, and utterly clarified that we had enough. If you’re looking for someone to talk with about this journey, I’m your man. And I could bring Sara in too, because we don’t make a single decision about money separately.
COVID did the same favor for us—we suddenly realized we did not have to eat out, and we had more than enough in our closet even if we never shopped for clothes again!
BTW, I now wear "professional outfits" at home while reading, writing, chatting with friends, and, baking!
The trick about "enough" is that it constantly changes and is easily influenced by other factors - circumstances around us change, people around us change, and numbers used as life metrics change ... So, I'd like to view "enough" as a state of mind—it still changes, but I have more control over it than anything else.
Finally got back to this … This concept of “enough” is just critical to my own decision to retire and reshape my life away from the corporate work world I had ceased to be satisfied by. My wife and I made quite a study of “enough”: how much we really needed to live on in a given year; what allowances we’d want to afford ourselves over the course of time; and then the key question of whether we had accumulated enough assets to kick free of what I lovingly call the “bullshit machine.” For us, COVID was the big clarifier: it ended work travel, forced us to cook at home, redefined how we’d entertain ourselves, and utterly clarified that we had enough. If you’re looking for someone to talk with about this journey, I’m your man. And I could bring Sara in too, because we don’t make a single decision about money separately.
COVID did the same favor for us—we suddenly realized we did not have to eat out, and we had more than enough in our closet even if we never shopped for clothes again!
BTW, I now wear "professional outfits" at home while reading, writing, chatting with friends, and, baking!
I wish I could say the same about my "professional outfits," but mostly they sit in the closet and I do my best to wear shorts year round.
The trick about "enough" is that it constantly changes and is easily influenced by other factors - circumstances around us change, people around us change, and numbers used as life metrics change ... So, I'd like to view "enough" as a state of mind—it still changes, but I have more control over it than anything else.
Hey Rick, thanks for the mention, I'm looking forward to the next series!
Keep doing what you’re doing!
Gosh Rick, that was a hell of a nice thing of you to say. Thanks.
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