Recently I’ve been having doubts about taking early retirement. What I’ve found particularly interesting is that since becoming financially independent back in July 2016 I just haven’t had the same level of hunger for it. In the past few weeks I’ve been really trying to figure out why. I definitely knew there was an element of institutionalisation in there but it was more than that. There was also fear and plenty of it.
Fear of leaving a career that has plenty of negatives but also plenty of positives. Fear of the unknown. Fear of losing purpose. Fear we’re making a mistake. Fear of not having enough. Fear of our move to the Mediterranean being a mistake and us returning with our tail between our legs. Fear of...