THE HARDEST YOU'LL EVER NOT WORK

"Nothing is the hardest thing in the world to do."

Unknown

Ever wish you'd wake up independently wealthy, never having to work again?

Or maybe you're nearing retirement and can't wait for the time when you have absolutely nothing to do.

Nothing.

Think about it.

THE RETIRING LIFE

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian writer.

Planning for a time when we have nothing to do is the most important planning we all should (but don't all) do.

Left with nothing, you can best hope the time left to you is blessedly short.

OVERLY RETIRED

"Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name."

Jean Paul (1763-1825) German novelist/humorist

True under any circumstance, even more so when self-imposed in idle retirement.

Think carefully what that will mean to you.

THE HARDEST JOB OF ALL: DOING NOTHING

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer

Give thought to what you will do when you no longer work.

"Nothing" wears thin pretty quick and too much leisure . . . is.

YOU CAN'T SLOW DOWN WITHOUT FIRST HAVING SPEEDED UP

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

John D Rockefeller

19th and 20th century American industrialist/philanthropist

You can't really appreciate the pleasure of doing nothing if you've only done nothing.

(Not) The Retiring Type?

"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."

Henry Louis Mencken

20th century American journalist

One day you could stop working.

Should you?

You Can Only Play So Much Golf (Fishing, Cruises, Sleeping In, Etc.)

"Leisure is a beautiful garment but it will not do for constant wear."

Unknown

Approaching retirement?

What will you do?