On Tim Ferris's podcast with Ramit Sethi they spoke about your Rich Life.
The idea is what would define a 'rich' life for you?
It doesn't have to be about finances or even items - but what feels luxurious to you.
What do you do to spoil yourself and make your heart sing?
How often do you feel joy by doing something you love?
And they also talked about dreaming into the future - of planning for a richer life experiences.
To put goals out there, and ways in which you can achieve them.
Ramit said that we are taught to save; but we are not taught how to spend.
Often we don't know how to spend what we save when we arrive in retirement.
We find security in the big bank roll - or how we so diligently have secured our retirement years - but never talk about how we will spend that retirement money.
He also has a challenge to spend $100 on just you - It can't be for your kids/grandkids or someone else. Just you. To think about shopping for yourself.
What I loved about the conversation was that there were exciting dreams and ways in which we can save to experience things we love - to go places and plan and dream.
In my first 46 years, I didn't know how to focus on what I loved. But, in the past 16 years I have learned to this quite well. And, it isn't selfish feeling at all. It is self-loving.
I love myself enough to have purchased a kayak, bikes, skis etc.
I see clothing that will work well in the outdoors and spoil myself buying it.
As a couple we have been good of taking care of us.
We go out to dinner and splurge - to take rides and weekend getaways. We not only save but enjoy the fruits of our labor.
I have little bits of dreams for retirement - ideas that need to be fleshed in and planned for.
Road trips, bike trips, kayaking, camping, hiking, art fairs...
With family and friends.
Mostly what I am doing already; but maybe bigger, longer and further away.
Perhaps retirement opens up the landscape of time to do more of what you love.
My rich life is what I am living today.
Often we wait to be delivered 'riches' when the richness of life is doing that which you love to do.
How grateful am I to be living a life full of riches!
And the greatest richness we can own is the relationship we have with ourself and then with others.
