personal growth

How Do I Want to Feel Today?

Moving from doing to being in semi-retirement. Choosing to ask myself how do I want to feel today?

I lost my mind during our mini-retirement, or did my mind lose me? My life will never be the same.

The goal is to run farther each year than the previous year. It will be the eighth consecutive year.

Which of the five regrets of the dying hits hardest? A funeral visualisation and deathbed reflection to live more intentionally.

Life is a marathon. Knowing my why turned struggle into strength during my first marathon.

I’ve run further every year for seven years straight. Now it’s time for my first marathon.

Less is more, less is enough. A few questions about clutter, clarity, and letting go.

We’re learning Spanish before our South America mini-retirement. Here’s the Pimsleur frugal hack for a fraction of the cost.

What gets measured gets managed, for my finances and my running. Here’s my yearly tally, and my first marathon on the calendar.

Living early retirement life now: exploring scuba diving in the Maldives and Vanuatu. Turning 40 and choosing experiences that matter.

Life is not a race. Lessons on pacing, persistence and running my own race.

From landlocked beginnings to learning to surf. Finding joy, freedom and fulfilment along the way to early retirement.

Sometimes growth means walking away. When a pay negotiation failed, I walked and it led to an offer 1.3 times higher.