Curious about the experience of those who retired early in their 40s

I’m 37. NW ~ $6M + 13 rental properties, a house, and various passive assets like books/courses that generate $500k+ income yearly.

I don’t want to retire. I’m having fun.

Last year, for example, I built a software platform for my industry (fitness trainers) and gave it away for free. There’s 27,000+ coaches who use it with 100s of thousands of clients. It’s cost me ~$500k to build and is helping my community of fitness professionals.

I’m writing another book now because I want to. My wife and I will open a local gym here in Toronto because we want to. She’ll do her art in there and invite the community in for art, because she wants to.

I don’t want to retire. Instead, I want to have fun building stuff I wish existed in my world.

That’s not advice for anybody else. But it’s working great for me. I’m more energized towards work than I’d ever be because now it gets to be okay and I get to dissociate from the outcome and remove financial pressures from It—and build what I wish existed for my communities.

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