Getting Ready for Retirement

So you think you are ready to retire?  Perhaps you should consider a mini retirement to test the real thing?  Mini retirements is a concept pioneered by Tim Ferriss in his 4 Hour Work Week book.  The idea behind a mini retirement is that you alter your current job such that you can do it on the go with total mobility.  And then, rather than waiting your whole likfe to suddenly jump into a retirement that you may or may not like, you test the waters by doing a "mini-retirement".  A mini retirement is when you spend a shorter period of time - maybe 6 months - doing what you thought you wanted to for a real retirement.  But it lets you test the waters rather than spending years planning for retirement only to discover that you don’t really like i=what you thought you would.