Mr. Fates retired several years ago. An executive for a Fortune 500 company, he left millions of dollars in future earnings on the table in favor of a life of freedom.
As fate would have it, there’s been a fair amount of turmoil in his post-C-suite life. A health crisis. An end to a marriage. An ongoing pandemic. Moving to a new state.
The real magic is that the future cannot be coaxed to share itself, even by the most accomplished of fortune-tellers. The true beauty and magic of living a life is the constant uncertainty. The not knowing.
As the classic adage goes, “timing is everything,” and indeed it has certainly been a profoundly interesting time to have recently retired.
We all pay close attention to and model out numbers attempting to somehow get those shining silver stars to assess what our real sequence of returns risk might actually be.
I have stumbled on a few interesting revelations that have fundamentally shifted my perspective in a positive way, allowing me a level and depth of clarity that I previously lacked.