Things we lose in retirement - the big list

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I've been working on creating a list of the things we lose in retirement. It's not all the things we lose in retirement. It isn't that every one of us will lose these things in retirement. It's just some of the things that we lose in retirement. Some of these things we get back, some we don't. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's bad. But the idea behind the list is to create a list of things that you can be on the lookout for when you're preparing for retirement or when you retire so that you aren't scrambling around trying to fix the wrong things because these things go missing. I'm coming up on the end of the list that I had formed in the beginning. So I had like 10 things that I wanted to do videos on. And I'm coming up on the end. I think today I'll do my last video from that original list. And I have to be honest, I'm kind of glad to be through it because it has felt a little bit like I'm creating almost like a list of things that I'm going to lose in retirement. And I'm going to lose a lot of things that I'm going to lose in retirement. And I have a list of reasons not to retire. And that isn't the objective. Like retirement is awesome. But if we can recognize the things that will go missing once we retire, we'll know them when they happen. An example would be when I retired, I lost a lot of my source of validation. So I started feeling like the people in my personal life were moving away from me because I felt like they weren't validating me as much. They weren't validating me as much as they used to. What I learned was I had actually lost all my work validation. The people in my personal life were validating me as much as or more than they ever did. But I felt less validated because I left work. So I started wondering like, what's going on with the people in my life? That's why I created this list. So when certain elements of our life go missing in retirement, we can recognize them for what they are and not sort of go on this wild goose chase of things that aren't even related. So I hope you enjoy the list. It should be down here. If not, you can click my profile and you'll see the playlist across the top of my profile. It's called, I think, Things We Lose in Retirement or Losses in Retirement. I forget. I think it's a great list. It's compiled from everything I've experienced. And hopefully it'll help people prepare for either when they're going into retirement or when they've retired. They can. Recognize some of these things in action and hopefully it'll be helpful.