It’s always been part of coaching. But lately, this topic seems to creep up everywhere.
A friend was telling me how his friends seem lost in freedom — though he didn’t quite put it in those words.
What do you do when you have nowhere to be? Sleep in, maybe. Scroll longer than you’d admit to. Coffee with a friend who still has somewhere to be after her lunch break — and there’s a little thrill in being the one who doesn’t have to leave.
And then?
Then what.
Do you know?
Nobody really tells you that freedom needs its own kind of planning. Retirement, or whatever we’re calling it these days, isn’t just the absence of a job. It’s not a number you hit and then float on. It’s a picture — one most of us never got around to drawing, because we spent all our years planning our way out of something, and never quite far enough ahead to plan our way into anything.
If the money were already solved, what would next week actually look like? Not the one you’d post. The one you’d still want, six months in, once the novelty of nowhere-to-be has worn off.
