Over the last couple of years I’ve been adding to a list of things that I like to do, or would like to do in the future. This isn’t a bucket list, it’s a list of the type of things that I enjoy, mixed in with a few ideas and...
This post is part of my series on planning for retirement. It’s going to be a short post because it just provides an overview of how I’ve been thinking about the shape that I want my retirement to take and some of the considerations that I’ve factored in so far....
This post is part of my series on planning for retirement. Although it’s not the best of topics to think through, retirement planning demands that you consider how long you expect to live. At least it does for me as I have a mix of money purchase and defined benefit...
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...
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...
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...