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Show Notes
Retirement Segment
- Dave is the creator of RetireFabulously
- Dave’s first book is Design Your Dream Retirement.
- His latest book (Dec 2017) is Smooth Sailing into Retirement: How to Navigate the Transition from Work to Leisure.
- It covers the 6 months prior to retiring and into the first year of retirement.
- It guides us through the changes that you’ll experience.
- You can find out more about Dave’s books, including how to purchase them, on his website.
- We get into his chapter about Curating Your Retirement which is analogous to how a museum curator selects what to display from the entire collection.
- A great quote: “The self is not something one finds but one something creates”.
- Like the museum curator we need to design our day.
- Retirement is one of life’s top 10 stressful events. It creates disruption.
- When you retire you confront a lot of changes at once.
- Time
- Cash flow
- Relationships
- Moving
- Social interaction
- A lot of identity and purpose is wrapped up in a job. You can read about my experience in My Identity Crisis.
- It’s better to say I’m something new instead of a former or retired something.
- Dave identifies 8 retirement personality types:
- Perpetual worker
- Volunteer
- Doting grandparent
- Traveler
- Fun seeker
- Self actualizer
- Lifelong learner
- Decelerator
- Dave plans for 2019 to be his year of no commitments as he is very busy and wants to see what emerges especially regarding travel and writing.
- Designing you day includes what you want to let go of as well as what you want to add.
- How you live each day is how you live your retirement.
Beer Segment
The beer segment begins at the 14:18 mark.
- Dave is a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of beer experience.
- He has gone to beer pairing dinners and has enjoyed them.
- He’s more into cocktails and wine.
- He has a bar at home that he refers to as his grownup chemistry set.
- He likes rum and vodka.
- Dave’s favorite cocktails are mojitos and maitais.
- His first drinking experience occurred at a freshman orientation in Ohio.
- The beer was Bush 3.2 which he did not like.
- I selected Sierra Nevada’s Juicy Hazy Little Thing New England style IPA.
- Color is deep gold.
- Aroma is a sweet and fruity.
- Taste = grapefruit and orange.
- IBUs = 40
- ABV = 6.7