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Now that you’ve officially retired, home

breakfast plate at outdoor cafe
Creativity: How can i (we) pause while walking 8-ish miles per day and enjoy an affordable power breakfast, and then finish the daily walk. Note: There are two breakfast places near us. This is one of them, this past Friday (48 hours ago).

Now that you’ve officially retired, will your priorities change?

Of course.

Why?

No more working in exchange for financial gain.

What do i think will be the biggest change or adjustment?

Candidly, and literally immediately, the thought of rarely (perhaps never) using LinkedIn is the first thing that comes to mind.

All the posturing, FOMO, selling, bragging, “hey look what I’m doing”…

Mental, spiritual, career freedom.

After that, creative brainstorming on how to capture my life’s professional wisdom in forms that benefit our Son.

And after that (most likely simultaneously), figuring out how to scale and sustain an adventurous, and grateful, way to enjoy life’s sunset phase.

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Got home vibrancy?

One question can change a person’s life.

But it has to be simple.

Easy to understand.

Personal.

Supremely important in the long run.

Got home vibrancy?

Five questions today.

Five answers.

Five yeses required for personal vibrancy.

Easy peasy.

Just kidding.

It’s not easy.

Not until it becomes a habit.

Not until it becomes supremely important in the long run.

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January 31, home

Reflecting on 2025, last year, how has that positioned you at home for this year, 2026?

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January 30, home

At home, how is your January 2026 going compared to how you planned it to go?

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Mirror of my lifetime, home

What do i see in the mirror of my lifetime at home?

Casual.

Curious.

Shy.

Active.

Sports.

Cross-country, solo bicycle ride with only $75 cash and no tent.

Married.

Poor. But won a low-interest mortgage lottery for low income, first-time homebuyers (1985).

Health was almost always top priority – it’s the only thing i was really good at.

Then work at Walt Disney World became top priority.

Parenting looked hopeless.

Then a priority realignment.

Then teaching at Disney Institute, 1999 start (1999-2014).

Then parenthood, 2000.

Converted from (inactive) Lutheran to active Catholic, also 2000.

Then daily writing in 2009.

Then early retirement (2014) from Disney to start my own (risky, never-guaranteed) keynote speaking business (2014-2026) to have more control of my global travel schedule.

Empty-nester.

Personal vibrancy.

Sunset of life.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.