This is the introduction to a series of posts on my strategy for a successful retirement. Over the last few weeks I’ve started to write about my plans for early retirement, with each post that I’ve written I’ve started to develop a better appreciation of how my plan for retirement...
As I mentioned in a previous post I work in end-user computing, mostly focussed on strategy. I’ve worked in all aspects of end-user over the years, but my research areas have always focussed on how to make people, places and teams more effective and happier at work. From a technical...
As part of my planning for retirement and perhaps forced retirement (redundancy) I’ve been trying to figure out how much money Debbie and I need to live for the next 20-30 years. When we are in our eighties I think our costs will reduce a little because we will probably...
As I’ve said on this blog many times, throughout my career my over-riding motivation and interest has been to make peoples lives better. For the last 20 of those years it’s been by improving their productivity, eliminating frustrations, improving autonomy, enabling effective team working and creating work spaces that enhance...
On average I’m meant to work 4 hours a day, 4 days a week, every other week. It’s a carefully crafted working pattern designed to reduce stress and break up my working time to stop me being drawn into time critical work commitments and exposed to too much stress. In...
I was recently sent a list of about a hundred documents that were being produced as part of readying a new product for sale. The ‘exam’ question was were we missing anything? My first and lasting impression was not what was missing but the lack of focus that might result...
There are few things in life that are as much fun as creating things and I’m planning to do a lot of creating in retirement. This post provides a rough outline of some of my ideas and I plan to add to and refine it as the big day gets...
As part of my retirement planning I’ve been wondering about how much time to devote to learning and what I want to learn. In the past I’ve never been a big learner, always doing the minimum that I needed to do to move on to the next topic, or to...
I watched a video recently about lifetime extension and the burgeoning science that supports it. I started to do a little reading on the topic trying to understand the people who are seeking to extend their lives and am surprised by how hugely motivated they are by the prospect. I’ve...
I’m following the Wahls Protocol at the moment, a primarily dietary approach to treating intractable auto-immune problems. The basis of the protocol is the need to have about 12 servings of vegetables and berries a day and lots of healthy oils and no grains. That’s a lot of vegetables, especially...