Making A Healthy Connection Between Work, Money And Life

Never Retire Checklist: #7

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In today’s Medium article, here’s a taste of what we did one year ago — in 2023 from Spain and Italy.

This year, we’re doing something similar from Spain and France.

Source: Author / The view from our apartment in Lyon, France

By design, the last two installments of this series lead into today’s on organizing money and work around your life, not the other way around.

In part five on working less now so you can work less longer, we focused on health, well-being and longevity —

Putting in 40-plus hours a week, particularly if it’s intense and keeps you from living a full, well-rounded life, can wear you down, physically and mentally. It’s not only the work that wears you down, it’s the absence of abundant leisure and rest time.

By limiting work today (I’m in…