{"id":3506,"date":"2025-03-24T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2025-03-24T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:29:00","slug":"but-you-havent-said-anything-about-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"But You Haven\u2019t Said Anything about Retirement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note to reader: As you\u2019ve probably guessed, I\u2019m making these blog posts into a book. I\u2019ll keep\u00a0 you posted on my progress. For now, what follows is my draft of the last chapter. Thoughts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But You Haven\u2019t Said Anything about Retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No, I haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually I did.<\/p>\n<p>Because if walking is a metaphor for life, and retirement is a phase of life, then all the things that make for a good walk will make a good retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out for yourself. I think you\u2019ll find an application in every chapter. Can you bring some childlikeness into your retirement years? How about surprise and spontaneity? Will you embrace the mornings and see some sunrises? How about pace? Do you need to find the right pace for these years? And what about places that inspire you? Will you live in or visit them often? Will you be a rebel at times and think outside the box? Will you remain curious and use your imagination?<\/p>\n<p>These are a few of the questions I\u2019m asking myself since hearing from the walkers in these pages.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, there is the obvious. Besides keeping you healthy, walking can be one of your best joys in retirement. In fact, that might be the thesis of this book. I\u2019ve titled it <em>Walking through Retirement: How To Squeeze All the Joy from Each<\/em>. I could have just as easily said \u201cHow squeezing the joy from the first will help squeeze the joy from the second.<\/p>\n<p>Because that\u2019 what it\u2019s done for me.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m ending this book where I started.<\/p>\n<p>With joy.<\/p>\n<p>Joy is what will keep you walking. And joy is what will keep you thriving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note to reader: As you\u2019ve probably guessed, I\u2019m making these blog posts into a book. I\u2019ll keep\u00a0 you posted on my progress. For now, what follows is my draft of the last chapter. Thoughts? But You Haven\u2019t Said Anything about Retirement. &nbsp; No, I haven\u2019t. Well, actually I did. Because if walking is a metaphor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}