It occurred to me that if I had taken the retireme…

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I had a bit of an epiphany the other day on my retirement transition. If you watch my other posts, you know that I went through all kinds of like anxiety and grief and just a lot of emotional responses to retiring that I had not prepared for whatsoever. I had no idea they were going to happen. And so I created that survey. You may have seen the retirement transition readiness assessment. And a lot of people in response to the survey would say, like, I got a six. I've got a lot of work to do. And I would have gotten like a seven or something like that, a really low score because I was not ready emotionally for retirement. And, you know, when people would say that, I would think, yeah, that's great. Now, you know, now you know what to work on. But then I realized, like, I wouldn't have worked on that stuff. My epiphany was I'm not a person who's going to put in all that work going into retirement. I would just wait until retirement and then address the stuff as it came up. The thing the readiness assessment would have done for me is it would have told me that what I was going through was normal and that, you know, I wasn't going crazy. And and it would have given me some objective things. I would have had a lot of things to start working on in my retirement rather than some sort of huge homework assignment to do in the years leading up to retirement. I do think there are people who would who would take the effort going into retirement. And I think for those people, that's what they should do. But if you see my post on being a fast fixer instead of a perfect planner, I'm a fast fixer. I've met a lot of entrepreneurs are fast fixers. So I wouldn't have done all of that work, even if I knew. But what I would have done is I would have taken that. I would have gone back to that list that I created for the readiness assessment. And I would have said, OK, here's the laundry list of everything that I'm actually going through. And I'm going to start working on this as a project. So one thing I would say is if you did the readiness assessment and you see things that you should probably be working on. First, ask yourself, am I a person who does that kind of prep? If not, it might not be a bad idea to consider whether or not you just kind of like be aware of those things. And then when you go into retirement, you can say to yourself, hey, I feel like I'm going crazy. But I know I'm not because lots of people go through this and it's a normal phase in the process of retiring. And then just work through this stuff as part of your retirement transition. I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea. But looking back, I didn't I don't think I really did it wrong. I think I did it the way I would do it. I just wish I would have known that it was normal. And the readiness assessment would have been a huge help for that. So good luck with your retirement. And let me know your thoughts on this on this subject.