Way back in March, 2008, Maribeth and I decided to commit our plan to writing. We called it "The Five Year Plan," but it reflected a plan we had first discussed three years earlier, and a dream we had been nurturing for nearly twenty years.
As it turned out, of course, the plan didn't come to fruition until 2016. And we ended up with a 34-foot Cabo Rico instead of a bigger boat. ObamaCare solved our health insurance problem.
Implementing the plan was terrifying, and we had many doubts along the way. We realized we'd have to quit our jobs, which seemed irresponsible, even dangerous. We began to call it “Our Year of Living Dangerously.” But the years were flying by (still are) and we felt it was now or never.
We're now three quarters of the way through our year. By the criteria we set eight years ago, we're succeeding. So far. We've got a very few more months of sailing remaining, and then we must face the "get new job when back" part of the plan. I think we'll be ready for it.
We're now three quarters of the way through our year. By the criteria we set eight years ago, we're succeeding. So far. We've got a very few more months of sailing remaining, and then we must face the "get new job when back" part of the plan. I think we'll be ready for it.
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