Category: Insights
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I’m now nine months into a twelve-month health and fitness program I commenced back in November 2025. A big part of this is an early-morning 2-hour walk as the sun comes up, and this gives me time to reflect on life in general and matters like my progress on this health plan.
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After completing both Stage 1 (01 November 2025 to 09 April 2026 i.e. 160 days) and Stage 2 (10 April 2026 to 13 June 2026 i.e 65 days) it is now time to create and commence the final Stage 3 of this one-year plan. The major goal of Stage 1 was getting to a Body…
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After 224 days, commencing 1 November 2025, today 13 June 2026, I’ve completed Stage 2 of my Health and Wellness plan having achieved a body mass index reading of 24.9 (considered healthy) so I’m no longer medically consider overweight / fat. I’ve made a significant investment in myself during this time starting with a blood…
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One of the major goals of my transition to retirement was to improve my health. Last week I completed stage 1 of the weight challenge moving my body mass index from 45.1 (obese) to 29.9 (overweight). This represented a 32 kilo loss over 150 days which is way ahead of schedule. The next goal is…
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With the start of 2026 I’m started thinking about retirement and in particular transiting to retirement over the next 3 years. I’ll be eligible to take early retirement in January 2029, but my tentative aim is May 2029. To have a meaningful retirement I feel I need to work out what I want across the…
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Now I’m into my 50s my mind is turning to the next phase of my life and what I want to get out of it especially as I transition to retirement. Education, health, spiritual balance and new travel and cultural experiences are very possible with the right focus, attitude and commitment.
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Over the last 12 months, I’ve been slowly upgrading and fixing up my apartment. This started with painting the apartment, replacing an old bed, replacing the toilet, replacing the blinds / curtains, and replacing the couches.
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As a fan of tennis, and a regular attendee of the Australian Open every since it moved to Melbourne Park (previously Flinders Park) in 1988 I had a unique and unexpected COVID related opportunity this year to attend the AusOpen 2022 Women’s Singles Final.
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Now that 2022 is here after the crazy rollercoaster years of 2020 and 2021 living with the COVID pandemic it is to be hoped that this situation now becomes more like a endemic situation i.e. contained to a degree or at least only expected cases but relatively mild. Back in February 2019 I started a…
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Well two months early I’m calling the wealth, weight and wellbeing plan that started in February 2021 finished and more importantly a success! For background you can find the first check in here (15 April 2021), the second here (25 June 2021), the third here (02 September 2021) and fourth here (13 November 2021).
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