Things we gain in retirement - self care - managin…

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When we're retired, we also get to manage our sickness on a much more proactive basis. I mentioned in a previous video how once you retire, you can manage your health so much more effectively. You can cook better, you can shop better, you can eat better, you can exercise more consistently. But even when we're sick, it's better when we're retired. Because we can manage our recovery at our own pace, under our own terms. And it's not like we're looking to get sick when we retire. But I got a little bug last week, and I was laying there under my blanket watching The Good Place. Just locked in on Good Place, just pounding through episode after episode. Not really watching it, just sort of drifting in and out of sleep under my little blanket with my dog with me. Just getting better. And I remember at one point thinking, man, if I were still working, I would be thinking this whole time, dude, you better wrap this up. You've got a day. And then you're going to be managing this at work. You're going to be taking whatever this is, you're going to be taking it to work with you. And you're going to be figuring out how to work with this. And it's so much harder to get better when you've got that recovery countdown clock just hounding you the whole time. And it's just something that I want to recognize that's amazing in retirement. Even when we're sick. We can manage it so much more effectively. And I know there are a lot of people who are dealing with real health issues in retirement. And I'm not minimizing that at all. I'm just saying, if you get like a common cold or a stomach bug or a flu or whatever, and you're working, it is so much harder to manage than when you're retired. So it's just another thing we gain in retirement. The ability to take care of our sickness, not just our wellness.