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Old 02-02-2015, 02:33 PM
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I'm a professor and former journalist. Deadlines are my life. I can't wait until I set my own schedule--and bathroom breaks. We plan to buy in TV this summer and I will retire at the end of the 2015-16 school year...fingers crossed. I'm not sure I can quit cold turkey, however. I've been working at my home desk today for about 12 hours. How do you just stop that kind of living cold?
I started selling real estate in 1973 and was a seven-day-a-week guy. About 3 years ago my wife and I visited TV. The second day I told her that if I ever retired, which I really didn’t think I ever wanted to do, that we would have to live in TV. A year and half later we purchased the home in which we now live. As time marched on, the more I thought about it, the better “retirement” began to sound. While I truly loved my career, the closer we got to my wife’s retirement-date, and the more I thought about my time being my own, the greater became my inclination to also retire. Well, we both retired last August.

We became frogs last September and have not had one moment of regret or of second thoughts since, but then I had the advantage of being able to process, for 3 years, what my life would be like without my career. Even though I really did quit cold turkey, I had those 3 years to consider and evaluate my “new life” and while I loved my career, I love even more that my life now belongs to me. I was blessed with a fulfilling 41-year career but am even more blessed now that I have my new TV-life.

That is a long way of suggesting that you dream of, fantasize about and imagine what your new life will be like, but perhaps, of greatest importance, “process” the change. I am still developing and creating my new TV-life here and I find the process to be exciting and stimulating. My life now is better than I ever imagined that it would or could be. (And BTW, if you’ve been working for 12 hours, and you wrote this at noon, then you’ve been working since midnight. It’s time to retire).  And the very best of luck to you!!