Three Years In!!

 

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!