Wow! Holy cow!
It has been three years already! Unbelievable! Time certainly does fly when you are having
fun and I am having fun! Yesterday
marked the third anniversary of my retirement and looking back I’ve come a long
way baby! Has my life gone the way I had
planned it when I first retired?
Nope. It’s even better!
By doing a lot
of planning and preparing ahead of time I have been able to manage all of the
financial aspects of taking early retirement which included a super thrifty lifestyle for the first three years. I knew in order to make
it work I would need to be very careful the first three years of retirement for
the numbers to work out the way I would need them to.
Many of the
things I initially planned to do when I started the planning and preparing
process for retirement did not happen.
But, that is completely okay. I
had to work around a few health issues that cropped up and made early
retirement even more important to me. I
did something that isn’t always easy for me to do. I kept an open mind, loosened my grip a bit
and made adjustments in order to get through whatever I needed to get through to
make my retired life work. And it has!
As I sit here
now I am healthier and stronger, both physically and mentally, than I have been
in quite a while and I couldn’t be any happier about that if I tried. I do more things that bring me joy and make me
feel active and productive. I spend more
time with my friends and my circle of friends is expanding. It is a joyous life in my tireless
retirement. I am happy. I feel so grateful for where I am right now. I’m ready for year four!
