Fifth Commandment of “Retirement”

V.  Try New Things

If you sat down for 30 minutes with a blank sheet of paper, how many things could you come up with that you’d like to try?  My wife and I are doing that, in effect, but using a unique approach that my wife thought up.

As I wrote about in Your 4 Biggest Worries About Retirement,  we have a cookie jar in our bedroom, with pens and a notepad nearby.  Each week,  my wife and I each drop 1 “Activity Note” into the Jar.  Neither of us knows what the other is putting in.  In June, we’ll start taking out one activity per week.  We’ve been adding to the jar for a year, so we should have 2 years of weekly activities accumulated in the jar.

We’ll try a lot of new things.

I don’t even know what half of them are (literally).

SOURCE: https://www.theretirementmanifesto.com/the-ten-commandments-of-retirement/