My retirement seminar

I keep thinking about this 2021 blog post by Dave Rupert on a retirement seminar by his financial advisor he "inadvertantly attended" which posed three main questions:

1. Where are you going to live?
2. How are you going to change a light bulb?
3. How are you going to get your favourite ice cream?

At the end of the presentation, the speaker opened up the conversation and asked current retirees to offer advice for near-retirees. A significant part of that discussion was about forming and maintaining relationships... Men tend to build relationships around tasks and often struggle with retirement because they’ve lost their primary mode of relationship building.

The way Dave ended this post has prompted me to think about relationships too.

I feel so far away from the need to think about retirement but, nonetheless, a healthy exercise. It appears to have stuck with me if I’m still rehashing it two years later. Now I think about relationships a lot.