This is Optimal Finance Daily, episode one thousand six.

I'm financially independent.

Now what?

By Chris Reining of Chris Reining.

And I'm Dan, I'm your host and welcome to Optimal Finance Daily where I read to you from some of the very best

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For now let's get right to the post and start optimizing your life.

I'm financially independent. Now what? By Chris Reining of Chris Reining.

Today's question comes from David. He asks, quote,

I happened upon your site today and engaged in some Sunday morning

binge reading. I very much enjoyed reading your articles and

appreciate your efforts to help others and to transform their lives.

In reading through the questions that have been posed to you, I notice that most of the questions

concern ways to save and invest.

Of course, amassing sufficient resources is a necessary step to early retirement, but it doesn't

address the harder, at least to me, question of who one wants to be, nor of what one wants

to accomplish in retirement.

I've been fortunate to have a successful career as an attorney

for the past 16 years. Between a healthy income and a lifelong habit of saving, I can retire

now at a still pretty youthful 41 if I were to choose to do so. While I enjoy the

intellectual aspects of my job and the relationships that I have with many of my

colleagues, I find myself considering the same thought that you mentioned, that is, there must be something

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