Why do we work full-time for 40+ years… only to stop completely and try to cram all the fun and freedom into the final decades?

What if we did it differently?

What if we worked longer — but with more breathing room along the way?

More travel when we’re younger and more energetic.

More time with family. More living, not just earning.

And truth is, most people I speak to don’t actually want to stop working altogether.

Even those who’ve “retired” often look for ways to stay engaged and contribute.

Maybe it’s not about stopping at 60 or 65.

Maybe it’s about spreading the good stuff more evenly through life.

I don’t have all the answers.

Just questioning the script we’ve been handed — and wondering if there’s a better one.

And maybe that’s what Henry David Thoreau was getting at when he said:

“We spend the best part of our lives earning money to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.”