Never Retire - Creating An All-Important Plan B
Why holding seemingly contradictory thoughts on money can work for you
Those articles I’ve been reading for years turn out to be true.
That life gets better as you get older.
I love the life my partner and I have together. I’m excited about our plans for the future we’re building.
The articles about how amazing life can be in your prime almost always include being with the right person—if you choose to have a partner—as a predictor of this feeling that, yes, life does get better as you get older.
Or maybe it’s simply your perspective on life—how you receive life—that changes, paving the way for life to naturally get better as you get older.
Even if you’re not rich.
I could stop there, rest my case, and be happy.
However, there’s something else I don’t see as much in popular psychology on aging.
Something that directly relates to the things we discuss on Medium and in this Never Retire newsletter.
The best $5 I spend each month is on my Medium membership. You can do likewise at this link, which—in full disclosure—gives me a cut of your membership.
I say this because Medium introduced me to so many great writers—Ben Le Fort, Charlie Brown, Peter Shanosky, to name a few—who write in my ballpark, yet still present opinions on things that differ from how I think and proceed.
Five, ten, twenty years ago my Medium subscription would not have been as valuable.
I would not have—and did not—get as much out of what I read then as I do now.
Because, as I get older, I come closer to mastering something critical to managing your money, particularly under a Never Retire scenario, which tends to be more open and fluid than the typical prescribed path to traditional retirement.
I’ll probably never completely master this skill, but I’m happy with my progress.
I’m particularly happy with one key element of my personal finance it has helped evolve my thinking on.