Jan Jachimowicz

Retirement is often seen as the end goal.

This is what I'm retiring from.

You know, I'm no longer doing work.

And instead they reframe it in a way that I think is really helpful.

What are you retiring to?

Not seeing retirement as something that is the end of a journey, but it's just a stop along the journey.

And what's the next destination that you're going to go to?

And then in that process, you can start thinking about what are the things even while I'm still working that I might want to do to prepare myself.

Perhaps that means I need to explore more of the things that I might want to do after retirement.

Perhaps that means that I need to engage in a little bit of a self-focus, exploring my identity.

Who am I?

What do I want out of life?

What is something that I've always wanted to accomplish?

And perhaps even experimenting, dipping my toes in a number of different things.

Is this really something feasible for me?

Is this something that I could see myself doing?

Is this something that I can do while I still live where I live?

Is it available where I am?

Or would it require a very different way of living?

But being more thoughtful and intentional, I think, is really helpful.