The Retirement You Want vs. the Life You’re Living Now


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 of that in action?

Or would I see a jam-packed schedule full of “someday” habits and zero time for the life you claim to want?

You can’t expect to live a meaningful retirement if you haven’t practiced what that looks like.

🛠 Want to know if you’re ready?

Take the RTA. It’ll show you where you’re aligned—and where you’re lying to yourself.

📥 Read more about it.


This Week’s Action Step (2 minutes)

Look at Tuesday on your calendar:

  • What open time needs to be filled?
  • What time needs to be removed?
  • How much personal time is planned?
  • Now...men tally clear it. How will you fill it if there is no career?

Your future will likely be very open. Understand now how to fill it.


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2025 RTA Year-End Report

The 2025 RTA Year-End Report combines data from all Retirement Time Analysis assessments in 2025 to highlight areas of time vulnerability when career ends and retirement life begins and what can be done.


Recent Articles

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 Habits That Create Time-Optimized Work

Here’s the truth most leaders don’t want to admit:

Your people aren’t burned out because they’re lazy.

They’re burned out because they’re never allowed to focus.

Time optimizing isn’t about doing more. It’s about protecting the space to do what actually matters.

Read the full article 👉

Then go create the space that builds momentum.


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 completely unproductive.

Let that sink in.

The 2025 Time Management Analysis (TMA) data says teams are killing it at staying organized — 84% use calendars consistently — but only 33% avoid distractions and 46% avoid procrastination.

Are you managing time, or is time managing you?


Personal Care is the Weak Link in Corporate Performance

Part 1 of a 3-part series highlighting some of the key insights from the 2025 Year-End TMA report.

Personal care ranked dead last in all five categories — sleep, breaks, and exercise were the lowest-scoring attributes of the entire assessment.

This article breaks down the full TMA dataset on personal care — why scores are low, how it impacts performance, and what people can do today to improve sleep, breaks, and exercise with very little time investment.



Time Insight of the Week

Develop Gap Fillers

  1. Audit Your Time Weekly: Are you making space for the activities you say matter? Track it honestly.
  2. Test Your Retirement Lifestyle: Want to spend more time outdoors, mentoring, or creating? Try it now—even if just in small doses.
  3. Build Structure That Isn’t Tied to Work: Replace meetings and deadlines with routines, self-assignments, and meaningful goals.

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