COMMENT | When I left full-time work for good, I felt a whiff of freedom. Free to do whatever with the occasional pleasantries of retirement. It was liberating – for a while.

With full-time work routines - gone, social interactions - gone, professional recognition – gone, mental focus getting fuzzy by the day, what now?

I eventually reverted to my normal baseline of making a day well spent.

Can’t just let life slip by.

The Japanese call it...