Domain 6 of 9
time.
What you'll do with the hours you've just been given back.
Time is the strangest gift retirement gives: forty, fifty, sixty hours a week handed back all at once, with no structure attached. The first weeks feel like a holiday. Then the holiday doesn't end, and for many people that's when the difficulty starts — not too little time, but too much, unshaped.
What fills those hours is rarely the grand plans. It's the ordinary Tuesday. The people who do this well tend to have built some structure on purpose — a standing commitment, a class, a project with a deadline, a reason to be somewhere — rather than waiting for the days to fill themselves, which they have a way of not doing.
Bearings asks whether you've pictured what an ordinary week actually looks like once work no longer shapes it, and whether you've put anything real into that shape yet.
Not too little time, but too much, unshaped.
What the assessment asks.
A few of the 4 questions that surface this domain — less about whether you've done a task, more about whether you've reached some footing.
- —I have hobbies and activities I genuinely look forward to outside of work.
- —How structured do you want your days to be in retirement?
- —I have a clear sense of what 'enough' looks like for my retirement lifestyle.
- —Have you tried a new activity or learned a new skill in the past year?
Reading in time.
See where you stand in time.
The assessment takes about fifteen minutes and covers all nine domains. Find your bearings.
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