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  Texas Brisket mmmmm My previous post addressed the financial aspect of retirement.  Now for the second major goal: fulfillment.  This is a much less defined piece of the retirement model.  One can use many of the models to determine how much money is required for retirement then you can simply look at your bank account to see if it measures up.  Fulfillment is more difficult to measure.  How do you even measure it.  If I get to the end of a day and have not gone crazy is that a good day?   Also since this is a less defined topic it will take me a couple of blogs to get through it all. Rather than get too deeply into the psychology of this field.  Let me tell you what I have been up to and see if I can make some sense of it. At first I took time to read.  To make this easier on the budget I got an online library card from the local library and was able to borrow books for free.  Free is good.  Looking at the history of bo...

  It seems as if I have readers block for over a year now.  The reality of this situation is that I have not really had anything interesting to say.  I am not sure if that is a good reason for my lack of posts.  All one must do is to peruse Facebook for 5 minutes and you will be inundated with posts that do not seem to say very much.  Social media seems to be a substantial repository of empty works. A quick update: The biggest change is that I have fully embraced retirement.  I left the IT industry in 2021 (May/June time frame).  I took a job at one of the big box Home improvement stores for a while.  I was not really into it so in June of 2022 I quit and decided the take on the task of retirement full time.  Almost all of the retirement resources available fully support making a plan for retirement.  I did not have a plan.  I may as well begin this chapter of my life lost and lacking focus.  Why not that is pretty much how I h...