How to Live Like You Are Already Retired
Money For the Rest of Us
J. David Stein
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
How to create and sustain a life of freedom and happiness you don't want to retire from.
Topics covered include:
- What are the physical and mental aspects of living like you are already retired
- What is the good life, and what are the basic goods that contribute to it
- How we handle time is the key to the good life and living like we are already retired
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Show Notes
Soloing: Realizing Your Life's Ambition by Harriet Rubin—HarperCollins
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell—Penguin Random House
An Early Resurrection: Life in Christ Before You Die by Adam S. Miller—Deseret Book
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman—Macmillan Publishers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Money for the Rest of Us. |
| 0:02.9 | This is a personal finance show on money, how it works, how to invest it and how to live |
| 0:08.4 | without worrying about it. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm your host David Stein, today's episode 437. |
| 0:13.3 | It's titled How to Live Like You're Already Retired. |
| 0:17.2 | If you're a long time listener to the podcast, that phrase and title might sound familiar. |
| 0:24.6 | It was the title of episode 19, released in August 2014. |
| 0:29.4 | At the time, nine years ago, our youngest daughter was in high school or other son was |
| 0:34.0 | in high school and we had a son at university. |
| 0:37.2 | The day that I recorded that episode, I had just dropped off our daughter for her first |
| 0:42.3 | day of school. |
| 0:43.3 | I drove out to our farm and recorded the episode and I said the one piece of advice to my |
| 0:48.2 | children is to live like you're already retired. |
| 0:53.1 | Retirement is the freedom to pursue the activities we find most rewarding. |
| 0:58.6 | When you think of somebody who's retired, they can wake up when they want. |
| 1:01.9 | They pursue whatever activities bring them happiness. |
| 1:06.0 | Wouldn't we rather live in a manner today that brings us happiness and in a manner that |
| 1:12.1 | could be sustained for decades into our 70s and 80s rather than put off our dreams until |
| 1:18.0 | we're retired? |
| 1:19.0 | I thought about this a lot recently. |
| 1:20.6 | I was listening to a class by Joshua Sheetz of Radical Personal Finance. |
| 1:25.6 | I wanted to support him in a retirement class that he's doing and he records it live |
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