I happened upon a Substack (essentially a blog hosting service) post this week from a favorite internet writer of mine, Seth Keshel. You can read it here. The post is about the 86,400 seconds of time each of us have to spend every single day of our lives.
I’ve written about spending time in the past. Somehow I always seem to forget how much those choices affect the day-to-day life we create for ourselves. This post was a great reminder. In the more than a month I’ve been back from Wisconsin, I’ve basically pissed (sorry for the language) my time away. It feels crummy.
Because of that post, I went back to the manuscript for Thinking 2 Steps Ahead, which I haven’t looked at since May 26. My bad!
The post also reminded me of another small but impactful book I chose to keep during the great book purge. By Robert D Smith, titled 20,000 Days and Counting, I need to read it again. A swift kick in the rear will help get me moving in the right direction again.
As I’ve said so often, retirement in paradise is the season of my life when I get to satisfy my never ending curiosity, or simply do whatever the heck I want to, even if it’s mindless entertainment. But I don’t want to ONLY do mindless entertainment and sometime, like the past month, I get stuck, spinning my wheels, there.
I may be retired, but man oh man, thanks for reminding me that my life ain’t over yet Seth Keshel. I sure as heck am not going to waste it.
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