Never Retire - Work Less, Invest Less, Stress Less
Consider today’s installment a follow-up to this recent Never Retire post—
What’s your number?
Mine is $2,000 a month. It’s all I’ll need to make if I successfully enter phase three of my Never Retire strategy…
In a nutshell, you want to start from the least stressful work and expense situation possible and wiggle your way down from there.
Living in the middle of core element #1, I’m comfortable at $5,000 or so a month. I don’t need to drive myself into the ground to make six figures so I can service significantly higher and unnecessary—no matter how you slice it—overhead.
As you shed expenses—as you find the floor—you have the luxury of choice to work less.
Even though you might be earning less your lifestyle won’t feel a thing.
In fact, you’ll ultimatley upgrade your lifestyle throughout this process, which is what we’ll cover in the next installment of the Never Retire newsletter—
The opposite of lifestyle expansion.
In that post, I detail the core concrete elements of my Never Retire strategy.
Today, we dig into the philosophy—really an outlook on life now and going forward—that drives this strategy.
Of the 110 or so posts I’ve written on Substack, this one might be my favorite.
When I refer to Never Retiring, I often get a response along the lines of that sounds absolutely dreadful.
It’s instructive to consider why large swaths of the population react negatively to the notion of Never Retire.
It’s even more helpful to explain why—and I can only speak for myself—it’s actually a super positive thing. This idea that you’ll Never Retire.
I’m partially inspired and informed by the Netflix documentary, Get Smart With Money.
Anyhow, let’s go—