Retirement is sold as an ending and experienced as a Tuesday.
The party happens, the cards go in a drawer, and then there's a Tuesday morning with nothing in it. For a great many people, somewhere around week six, a strange flatness arrives that nobody warned them about and it's almost never about the money.
A job quietly supplied four things at once: a reason to get up, a structure to the week, a set of people, and a sense of being useful. All four stopped on the same afternoon, and only the alarm clock was one anybody was glad to see go.
This book is a list of replacements.
• Get Out of the House ten things you can do this week, within an hour of your own front door
• Travel and Bigger Adventures now that you're no longer confined to two weeks in August
• Learn Something New ten things nobody is too old for, where adult beginners are the majority
• Make Something With Your Hands ten crafts where hours vanish and the internal chatter stops
• Get Moving ten ways to be active that are actually enjoyable
• Food, Cooking, and Growing for the fact that you now have time in the afternoon
• People the part nobody warns you about: work supplied most of your company, and it has stopped
• Give Something Back, Turn It Into Something (hobbies that pay for themselves), and Just for the Joy of It the section people skip and then come back to
Pick one. This week. Get your copy today.