About Arctic Blond Living Empowered
"It's not gray, it's Arctic Blond."
Arctic Blond Living:
The story of "About ABLE" keeps changing.
But the story of how you and I got to this moment—right here, right now, together—has not.
The “About” keeps evolving because ABLE is new. It’s a toddler—just learning to walk and speak.
But the core? The essence of ABLE?
It’s simple:
Use the time we have left to wring out as much JOY as we can—every day if possible (it is!)—and leave this life with zero regrets.
Between naps, of course.
The keywords?
Joys and Regrets
So it went. A lifetime of faster and faster, more and more. Then stop.
The idea for Arctic Blond Living was born by accident in late 2024.
I’m just a regular guy who hit retirement age and stepped off the treadmill—the rat race for more.
You know the one: no matter how great the week, month, quarter, or year, it’s never enough. More money, more status, more pressure. Usually for someone else’s benefit.
Stepping off created this huge, unexpected void—time and headspace we haven't had since childhood.
Daily Grind. ✅️
Adult responsibilities done. ✅️
Families raised. ✅️
Retirement: wide freaking open. ✅️
It was the rare, once-in-a-lifetime chance many of us have to reinvent ourselves.
We’ve all worked hard to get here.
Now it’s time to spend some of the joy we’ve deferred, the money we saved, and the time we’ve earned.
Arctic Blonde Living: Where Your Dreams Take Center Stage
Great. I’ve got the power. Now what?
I had all these things I said I’d do in retirement. But I was doing... nothing.
WTF?
I needed to figure it out. What do I really want—or need—to do with the time I have left?
So I asked myself some uncomfortable questions:
If I died today, what would I regret?
What have I always wanted to do—but never did?
What would I regret not seeing, not trying, not saying?
That cracked something open.
I answered honestly. And then I asked more.
One answer kept showing up: I want joy in my life.
Simple joy. Daily joy.
But I had a lifetime belief that I wasn’t allowed to have joy. Childhood trauma will do that—imprint “you don’t deserve it” right into the marrow of your bones.
Bullshit.
I deserve joy. So do you.
Why Joy?
Because I can.
So I dug deep to understand what has brought me real joy in my lifetime:
Writing
Making people laugh
Bringing people together
Doing good
(Wow, as I write this now, I just realized: every one of those joys ties back to childhood pain. Some of your are probably like: "No shit Sherlock," but it was a new revelation to me.)
So I got intentional about building some of that joy into every day.
Turns out, that became what is now Arctic Blond Living Empowered. It checked all four boxes.
Writing ✍️
Making people 😃
Bringing people 👨👩👦👦
Doing ❤️
Creating this—writing it, sharing it—brings me joy.
Whether it helps no one or 100 people doesn’t matter.
I’m selfishly doing it because helping others brings me joy.
Stop Waiting. It’s Time to Live Your Dreams.
But having the idea wasn’t enough. I needed to do it. One problem:
My superpower is procrastination.
I'm a professional at it.
So thought, what if I gave myself a hard DEAD line?
At 68, actuarial tables say I’ve got maybe 11 years—about 4,000 days left. Enough time to successfully procrastinate.
So I made up a number:
855 days.
What if I only had 855 days left to live?
What do I want—or need—to do so I leave with no regrets?
Boom. That did it. It lit a fire, and gave me focus.
This Is Where YOUR ABLE Starts
Now it’s your turn.
Stop waiting.
1. Ask the hard questions
2. Identify your joys and regrets
3. Get intentional
4. Actually do it
(Between naps, of course.)
YOU can create the YOU that YOU want to be now.
YOU can live the dreams you’ve been putting off for too damn long.
If you need help, I made a free Fast Start Guide right here to help you get going.
You can also join our new Facebook group, right here to join others.
Arctic Blond's Unite 👩🦳🧑🦳🧓
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Arctic Blond Living is:
Empowered lives.
Intentional Laughing, Loving, Learning, and Living with Zero Regrets.
It’s about being the most joyful, most authentic, most empowered version of YOU.
So let’s go.
–Ken