As you re working through the triage phase of your…

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When you're in the triage phase of your retirement transition, which is those first few months when all of these different emotions just hit you that you did not anticipate. I mentioned in another video that the most important thing is to break out of the doom spiral. The second most important thing for me, and I did not do this, is to recognize that you're experiencing grief. You're grieving. You're experiencing grief for your old job, for your old friends, your old company, your old paycheck, all those things. Like you've just experienced a massive change. You could say you've just experienced a significant loss, like some big part of your life is now gone. I didn't know that, so I was trying to fix all these other things. Later, someone here on this platform actually pointed out that those are all symptoms of grief. So just know that you're going to experience grief. It's easier.