{"id":18116,"date":"2015-08-25T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=18116"},"modified":"2021-06-14T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:50:34","slug":"close-to-the-summit-25-day-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/close-to-the-summit-25-day-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Close to the Summit. 25 day countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

25 working days left to go folks.<\/p>\n

Our tenant moves in on Friday, at which point our oddball plan to get financially free at 43 becomes reality. In another 5 weeks, my contract ends. We’ll have done it, our investments will all be in place. We’ll have reached the summit we set ourselves. Topping out time.<\/p>\n

And to be quite honest, it all feels rather surreal. Perhaps I’m a bit subdued by the 5:30am start this morning driving the Smart to Dudley for project meetings. Or maybe this is just how it feels? Two years ago when I pumped a bunch of numbers into a spreadsheet I was, as they used to say in the old days, totally stoked to realised maybe we could hit our goal much earlier than we expected. We’d initially thought we’d get there at age 50, then maybe 45, then finally the cold cells of Excel stared back at us and predicted age 43. That’s with a bit of off-the-wall thinking with the Cooler<\/a>, and some quite stupid amount of work and self-imposed stress, but nevertheless, it’s still taken us by surprise.<\/p>\n

We’re now faced with fact we never need to work again (well, after the end of September anyway…). It’s a sobering thought. It feels both massively liberating and mildly threatening at the same time. The former is probably self-explanatory. The latter? Well:<\/p>\n

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  1. We have few role models. No-one we know personally has hit ‘FI’ (financial independence) at age 43. Others have done it much earlier<\/a>, but we don’t know them personally. It feels a bit out on a limb. We have very few people to talk to who can relate directly to what we’re doing or why.<\/li>\n
  2. With great power comes great responsibility, as someone once told Spiderman. With the need to spend 50 or 60 hours a week working\/commuting removed from our lives, there is no excuse not to get the damned stuff done in life we know we should do. We’re not awash with money, but we’ll not be penniless either. I personally have to get my finger out, face down a few fears and grab some new opportunities when the arise. I’m nervous and excited about this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ermmm, so what exactly do we do? It feels a bit like all those runners following Forrest Gump at the point he decides he’s tired and isn’t going to run across America any more. Now what? Hitting the road again in Zagan is high on the agenda. The beauty of the world awaits, we have half our own continent still to explore, never mind the others. Conversations with fascinating and inspiring people are out there waiting to be had.<\/p>\n

    But what else? We can’t just sit back and travel for ever? The need for enduring relationships and the fulfilment from work remain, we have to seek them out. This is going to be interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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