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Dave Buck

⌚Providing senior business professionals with a post-career lifestyle strategy of purpose, fulfillment, ease and joy. ⏳Start your journey by taking the Retirement Time Analysis (RTA) Lifestyle Quiz. https://infinitylifestyledesign.com/rta/

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Why Retirees Feel Lost: The Identity Gap No One Prepares You For

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 207) If you only read one sentence: Retirement isn’t disorienting because people stop working — it’s disorienting because they haven’t defined who they are without their work. This Week's Feature Why Retirees Feel Lost: The Identity Gap No One Prepares You For 🔥 There is an obsession with the money side of retirement. 👇 When the day comes, the hardest may not be financial. It’s identity. For 30+ years, work gives...

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 206) If you only read one sentence: Busyness isn’t caused by too much work; it’s caused by too little leverage, and small time multipliers can quietly give hours back every week. This Week's Feature The Time Portfolio: Managing Hours Like Assets “I don’t have time.” That’s the most common objection I hear when introducing systems like CRMs. And it’s always ironic—because not having time is exactly the problem they...

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 205) If you only read one sentence: Your calendar is a portfolio—every hour is either compounding toward the life you want or quietly increasing risk in the one you don’t. This Week's Feature The Time Portfolio: Managing Hours Like Assets ⏳ Your calendar is your portfolio. Not your 401k. Not your stock picks. Your TIME. You’ve only got 24 a day — and most people are spending them like junk bonds. Endless emails....

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 204) If you only read one sentence: The first 90 days of retirement aren’t a vacation — they’re an onboarding period that quietly determines whether the next 20 years feel purposeful or adrift. This Week's Feature Mapping Out the First 90 Days of Retirement 🕰️ The First 90 Days of Retirement Can Define the Next 9,000 Yet when people retire — stepping into the most significant transition of their adult life — almost...

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 203) If you only read one sentence: Most couples don’t struggle with retirement money—they struggle with misaligned expectations about time, identity, and daily life once work ends. This Week's Feature The Retirement Misalignment of Couples 📊 Part 3 of the 2025 Year-End RTA Report series Most couples assume retirement will just work itself out. The data says otherwise. One spouse is ready. The other isn’t. And...

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 202) If you only read one sentence: The moment that a career is is gone, many people don’t know what to say about themselves anymore. This Week's Feature Avoiding the Retirement Identity Trap 📊 Part 2 of the 2025 Year-End RTA Report series You may feel like a leader. You may think like an executive. But once you retire… nobody’s calling you that anymore. And for a lot of people, that reality hits hard. In the 2025...

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 201) If you only read one sentence: Most people’s current lifestyle doesn’t even remotely reflect the one they say they want. This Week's Feature The Retirement You Want vs. the Life You’re Living Now 📊 Part 1 of the 2025 Year-End RTA Report series 🚨 Retiring without a lifestyle plan? That’s a recipe for regret. Everybody’s got a dream about retirement. Yet... 👉 If I looked at your calendar today… would I see any...

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 200) Thank you for reading - this is issue number 200! If you only read one sentence: Time optimization isn’t about doing more — it’s about building habits that protect uninterrupted focus, because attention is the real productivity bottleneck. This Week's Feature Building Habits That Prioritize Time-Optimized Work 💥 You don’t need more time. You need fewer distractions. 📊 Part 3 of the 2025 TMA Report: Build...

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 199) If you only read one sentence: Most professionals aren’t struggling with systems — they’re struggling with focus. The 2025 TMA data shows teams are highly organized but consistently distracted. This Week's Feature Organized but Overwhelmed: The Paradox of the Modern Team Teams are organized but overwhelmed. 📊 Part 2 of the 2025 Year-End TMA Report You can have the cleanest calendar in the world… and still be...

The Time-Optimized Newsletter Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 198) If you only read one sentence: Your body isn't a side project — and according to this year’s TMA data, ignoring personal care is quietly costing people 10–12% of their overall performance. This Week’s Action Step (2 minutes) Look at tomorrow’s calendar and choose one of the following to commit to: Add one 5-minute break (every hour if you can). Go to bed 30 minutes earlier. Schedule one 20-minute walk. Circle...