The Retirement Newsletter: One year and counting

Issue Number: -52 — Time for a wobble?

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Welcome

Welcome to issue -52.

If you’ve been following along, you will realise that I use a weird numbering system for the editions of The Retirement Newsletter. The numbers are negative and counting down to zero.

I am counting down the number of weeks until I retire, and as this is issue number -52, there are 52 weeks, that is, one year, until my planned retirement.

One year to go and some wobbles

It doesn’t seem possible. But it is. And I must admit, I have had a couple of wobbles over the last month about my retirement.

The wobbles

I regularly talk to some of my friends who have retired in the last couple of years, and most will admit to having some last-minute doubts and some early post-retirement jitters.

Last-minute doubts

Last-minute doubts seem to be about money, age, time, and identity:

• Money — do I have enough money to retire, and will my money last?
• Age — I am too young to retire?
• Time — what will I do with my time when I am retired?