Within Six Years, I Want To Write This Newsletter And Do (Almost) No Other Work

How my work as a writer fuels and will hopefully complete my semi-retired life in Spain

This isn’t my side hustle. It’s my livelihood.

This is my work as a freelance writer.

As of today, I have four gigs.

I write on Medium. I write a four times weekly personal finance and investing newsletter called The Juice for a private client. I write personal finance and investing articles for CNN Underscored. And I write this Never Retire newsletter.

At the moment, each source of income is tied to one or more purposes. I find this approach is the best way for me to not only organize personal finance, but give myself a realistic chance of achieving a handful of lofty goals. A couple links with concrete examples at the end of today’s post—on what I’m doing now and how I'm doing it—will help illustrate.

But first, a rough six-year timeline you might be able to adapt to your situation.

It’s all about reducing the number of purposes to the most essential. With this reduction, you can spread a larger percentage of your money around to fewer purposes. Eventually, the point comes when you require less money to cover the essential elements—both needs and wants—of life.

This is what I call full blown semi-retirement. Which, for me, is the mother fucking holy grail. And includes just one welcome obligation—writing this newsletter.