Episode 56

I reminded myself again yesterday that sometimes i…

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So I talk a lot on my channel about things that I'm going to do in my retirement, or things that I'd like to do, or how do I find things to do. But one of the things that I've kind of failed to touch on, and honestly I sort of failed to appreciate until recently, is all the things that you don't have to do anymore. And I was talking to a friend the other day, and they were kind of venting about work, and they were talking about this garbage person they have to deal with every day at work. And I thought, you know, I have failed to really appreciate the people that I don't have to deal with anymore. Because it brought me a lot of frustration. And I'm sure I was one of those people to other people. And honestly, maybe they failed to appreciate the fact that they don't have to deal with me anymore. But it is a weird. thing to think about. Like, it's not just the people, but I need to remind myself that retirement isn't all about what I do. It's a lot about all the things that I don't have to do anymore. And I started kind of like listing all of the things that I don't have to put up with anymore, that I had to put up with when I was working. And I mean, the list is pretty big. And I'm not going to go through all of them. And I'm not going to go through all of them. And I'm going to spend more time like thinking about the things that you get to stop doing when you retire. Because that is a unsung hero of retirement.