From Barcelona To Valencia: Acknowledgement (Of Your Situation)
Today’s newsletter comes to you from a Renfe train headed from Barcelona to Valencia Spain, the second stop on my partner and I’s month-long trip through five Spanish and Italian cities.
We’re thrilled to be awake at this hour (the sun rises just after 8:00 am in Barcelona these days), but, as always, making the best of it. We have fun even when we’re tired.
This is post #2 of 20 for the month of February.
Each post includes:
Photography from the cities we visit.
Thoughts, observations, highlights from the cities we visit.
A breakdown of what we spent each day to compare the cost of living in Spain and Italy to the United States and elsewhere.
A Never Retire checklist item. A total of 20 practical money/work/life-related boxes you need to check to live the semi-retired life you wanna live now and for the duration.
See post #1—From Barcelona, Spain: Assessment (Of Your Situation)
In March, I’ll do 20 posts in 31 days, meticulously detailing each of the 20 items.
Today’s Never Retire checklist item: Acknowledgement.
Once you assess your personal financial and lifestyle situation, you must acknowledge it.
Seems basic, however it’s anything but.
When you come to the conclusion that you’ll Never Retire, you, like most people, initially think of it as a negative, particularly if you have no choice in the matter. There’s a difference between wanting to work into retirement when you don’t have to and needing to work into retirement because you have to.
Therefore, before you think about devising strategies and making plans for today, let alone your future, you probably will—and maybe even should—go through a thoughtful, if not intense practical and psychological process. Steps we introduce in the first three of these February installments and cover in detail next month.
Post #2 in March focuses on step #2—Acknowledgement.
Now the fun stuff - photography, thoughts, observations and highlights from Barcelona, along with what we have spent on the trip so far, with a rough comparison of what it would have cost us in the United States.
