But What Now?

I have countdown clocks in a few places, including my work Outlook calendar. My Google countdown clock reports that as of today I have 298 days until my earliest possible retirement date. As the number goes down, the dreams in my head go up.

A Facebook friend wrote that I am too young to retire, that in truth what I am doing is re-starting. Yes, I know it all comes down to language and semantics. In our culture, retirement has connotations of old age and sitting around with nothing to do. I don’t think that anything could be further from the truth.

My truth is that in about a year from now, I will have the resources and the time to do something new. While I am not completely dissatisfied with my current job, I know that I am looking forward to moving on to something different. There are aspects of my job that I no longer enjoy and I love myself enough to do what I know is best for me.

Besides, I love challenges. Some people find their challenges on the job and I have surely been one of them. Now I am facing an even greater challenge. I am starting a new business. Today, with everything else I have on my plate, I don’t know what this will eventually look like, but I do know that it is shaping up. What was a big lump of clay even less than a year ago is starting to look like a lumpy mountain. The tectonic plates of my entrepreneurial spirit are moving and shoving and taking on a life of their own.

For now, I am learning all that I can, reading everything I can get my hands on (spending plenty of money on Amazon these days!) and writing.

How have you re-started?