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Danny says, remember, you only have to change eight hours of your day when you retire. And I think for some people that might be true. Like some people retire and their evenings, mornings, weekends are just the same as when they worked. And they really only have to adjust their, you know, normal work time. For me as a business owner, that was not my experience. And I think there's a lot of people, especially workaholics and people who, you know, kind of get their identity from their work. This would not apply to, um, like for a few years when my business was really struggling in the beginning, I essentially drank myself to sleep most nights because I was just so stressed out that I couldn't go to sleep unless I had a little buzz on. And I sorted that out. But like, that just gives you a small picture of what it's like to be a business owner. And I think that's a really good thing. What it was like for me outside those eight working hours, you know, when the business was struggling, um, again, in the early years, if I, you know, if I wasn't doing anything in the evening, I was worrying about it. I was worrying about the people. I was worried about the finances. I was worrying about sales. I was worried about something. So once you retire, that all goes away. Now the last probably five years of the business, I've been working for a long time. I've been working for a long time. Business were great. Like we had sorted out all those fundamental things that, you know, growing pains that businesses just go through. So when I retired, I didn't go from, you know, that degree of stress to no stress, but I still had the business stress when I retired. And when the business stress went away, I had, um, accidentally started trying to replace that stress because my, uh, my physiology was just accustomed to a certain degree of stress all the time. So I had to address that. And it was nights, weekends, when you wake up while you're asleep, before you go to bed. So I don't disagree with you. I'll bet there are a lot of people who only have to adjust that eight hour period. And I'll bet a lot of those people are the people that I hear say retirement was smooth for me. I just slipped right into it. Um, but there are a lot of people in my situation who was a work was a whole lot more than just the eight hour period. And I don't mean that as a, as a point of pride. It's just, it's just what it was. You know, I ran a small business and it pretty much occupied me 24 seven.