Living The Semi-Retired Life: Trust And Enjoy The Process
We actually love our life in Los Angeles
The whole idea of living the semi-retired life springs from the increasingly untenable cost of living and retirement situations in America.
While many possibilities exist, there’s a good chance people who follow and are active participants in this conversation fit into one of two categories:
Like me, they have a good life in America, but don’t see it as sustainable, particularly into and beyond relative old age. They structure their expenses so they don’t have to participate in the backbreaking grind that merely getting by in this country often requires. While they want and—to best live the second half of their life (or more)—need change, there’s not a ton of urgency.
To survive or to pursue and attain the American dream, they have bitten off more than they can and/or should chew personally, professionally, physically, mentally and/or financially. They require immediate change or things might implode.
I like to think this newsletter is a worthy companion to people in both camps, and myriad scenarios in between.
Focusing on the first point today, I’m getting better at not only trusting, but respecting and enjoying the process.
As my girlfriend and I often say to one another, we have a great (semi-retired) life in Los Angeles. In America. We spend a lot of time doing “nothing” and just as much time doing a whole bunch of something with reasonable amounts of work sprinkled between. We can do this because of our relatively low cost of living. If we want to maintain—and improve—our quality of life, we know we must move. But, because there’s no urgency and we love our life in Los Angeles, we can follow, trust, respect and enjoy the process.
A process I provide a rough sketch of in today’s installment.
The Spanish tapas and vermouth aren’t going anywhere!
¡Las tapas españolas y el vermut no van a ninguna parte!