The Retirement Myth

I’m convinced that retirement is a myth.  We are taught from an early age that the secret to success is do well in school, get a job, work for 40 years and then put our feet up or go play golf.  Totally absurd.  The penny dropped for me 8 years ago that there was a better way.  Whether you are an entrepreneur, looking to invest your way out of a job or have never thought about the alternatives, it’s not an easy path, but it is worth striving for.

So what is retirement?  What does it mean?  Do we ever really retire anyway?  Isn’t the secret to long life finding something that makes you leap out of bed for in the morning, (incidentally, I don’t recall doing that very often when I had a J.O.B)  A project that has your full attention that you eat sleep and breath it every day.  And when you are not working on it, you are thinking about it.

Does that end when you get to some government defined retirement age?  I don’t think so, at least I hope not for all of us.  So my view is that retirement is really just a plan that we are supposed to have in place to pay for our life after we are no longer deemed useful to the system because we are now too old to function as well as the young.  Boy, that sounds cynical even to me…but unfortunately I believe it to be true.

We have choices, and we need to act on those choices.  There is nothing wrong with having a job or a career, but we must have it because we love doing it, no other reason justifies the time.  So if you are doing something that is not your passion, look to invest or trade your way out of it.  Trading can get you there, you just need a good teacher, time, money and discipline to follow a plan.  I created this site to help people get there, as no one ever really held my hand when I started out, they just taught me a whole bunch of stuff I barely knew how or why to use.  So I know this site will get you there, only your starting capital determines how long it will take you….

May today be a profitable day…for all of us.

John