Updated: March 24, 2025
I intentionally don’t do much with social media, but it’s nice to have a place where people who are interested can keep up with what I’m doing. This page is designed to do just that. I typically update it about once a month.
What I’m Up To
- I’ve been completing one module each week in a Certified Professional Retirement Coach course I’m enrolled in. I’m learning a lot, but I’m also finding areas where I would take a different approach than the authors. For instance, they use the old “Define your primary values and build your life around them” approach. I’ve always found this unhelpful and useless in making practical decisions. Instead, I use my friend David Sparks’ life roles approach. My roles tell me what I think is important, and by defining the behavior I aspire to in each role, it helps me to plan what I do. See the Productivity Field Guide by David Sparks.
- I’ve been busy the last few weeks writing new blog posts, mind mapping them, then dictating a first draft and editing them. I’m committed to publishing two blog posts a week, so it’s important for me to have a lot of posts ‘in process’ making their way to publication.
- Next week will be the beginning of a new quarter. I’m planning on spending a lot of time doing my Quarterly Review. I’ll rewrite my Arete statements from scratch, and decide what I want to work on for the next quarter. I’ll also spend time thinking about what directions I might want to go in with retirement planning teaching.
- I will likely set up a new website featuring retirement issues and planning. I’ve already purchased a domain name, RetireReinvented.com. This will be a minor side project until I complete my training course, so I don’t expect it to be live for at least a couple of months.
Adventures
- Not many adventures this past month; too much snow, wind, and now rain. We did go hiking on a section of the Centennial Trail in the Black Hills. There was still snow in patches and in depressions in the trail, which resulted in many muddy spots. But it was energizing to be out in the woods again and enjoy the beauty and smells of nature.
Media
Recently, I’ve read (or am reading) two books:
- Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. A fantastic book filled with amazing insights into productivity and life. It has changed my perspectives about a lot of things and has changed my life to make me more experimental and pursue my curiosity. Highly recommended.
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Michael Greger. This book has resulted in a complete change in our diet. We’re now eating lots of vegetables, beans, and whole grains.
I got the idea for this page from David Sparks, aka MacSparky, who got it from Derek Sivers. I don’t like using social media for updates, so on this page I can update you as to what I’ve been doing lately