The Retirement Newsletter: Procrastinate now!!

Issue Number: 15 — Procrastination and retirement — is it an issue?

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Welcome

Welcome to issue number 15 — procrastinate now!

“Procrastinate now” has always been a favourite slogan of mine as I like the interplay between “procrastinate” and “now.” How can you procrastinate now?

Procrastination and Retirement

There is a saying…. “Never put off to tomorrow what you could do today” and that can be one of the problems with retirement — you can view it as a long summer holiday and continually put things off.

If I think back to the long school summer holidays I had as a kid, there was a pattern. The summer holidays, those glorious 6–8 weeks off between academic years, seemed to take forever to arrive. In the months leading up to the holidays, I would carefully plan the things I wanted to do and when I would do them.

Then, the first day of my holidays arrived. And, if you listened carefully, you could hear my plans flying out the window.

Within the blink of an eye, I would be in the last week of my holiday, and nothing had been done.