Renee De Four

So let’s generalize this and say that retirement without doing what excites you is not a good retirement. What we actually need to understand here is the different perceptions of retirement: To some retirement means sitting in Florida and staring at a wall, to others it’s hang gliding in Tahiti, and to some it simply means not having to work.

Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly… No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

— Pat Barker

Grab My Planner

Not being caught up and controlled by trends, political narratives, hunger, momentary pain, other peoples' opinions, comfort.

The more you are controlled, the less autonomy you own.

The less autonomy, the less fulfilment.

“In a world where you are constantly asked to be ‘committed,’ it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.”

~ Tom Hodgkinson