Author: Murray Gottheil

This is Part Four of my series on retiring from the legal profession. In the first three parts, I did not even mention “the Number.”  

We all know what the Number is.  That is the  amount of investments that you supposedly require so that you can retire.

I spent many years waiting to finally hit the Number and be able to retire.  I asked my friends about their Number. I read articles about getting to the Number. I spoke to my financial advisor about getting me to the Number. I pondered the impact of my lifestyle on achieving the Number. I obsessed about what the right Number was and when, if ever, I was going to get there.

In Part One of my series on retirement, I defined retirement as being “when you are doing exactly what you want to be doing,”   and I wrote about needing to figure out what exactly what that is. In order to do that, you need to know yourself. For some of us that is easy. For others, not so much.