Once you re 6 months into your retirement you ll w…

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Once you're six months to a year into your retirement, it's pretty easy to sort of fall into a groove. Develop a routine that's comfortable and you know it, but routine is typically the enemy of contentment. And we want to find ways to disrupt the routine so we don't get into this groove that just becomes like something we put on repeat every day. Studies after studies show that it's not great for us to just fall into the same routines every day. So we need to find ways to break our routine. What I do is I have an activity hat. It's just this guy right here. You can see it. But I just have a bunch of post-its in there of just little things that I like to do. Some of them I don't even love to do. I just like to do some of them. And I pull one out. And if it's too rainy for it, I put it back. And I pull. I add another one if it's too cold, etc. But I eventually pull one out that fits the climate. And I'll just go do it. And it helps me to break up that routine that I sometimes fall into. And it also reminds me of things that I may have forgotten that I enjoy to do. Bowling's a good example. So I don't love to bowl, but I kind of like to bowl. And I would say I like to bowl once every two to three months. So sometimes I'll get into my little hat. I'll pull out an activity. And it'll be bowling. I'll be like, oh, man, I forgot. I like to bowl. And I'll go bowl a couple of games. But then I won't want to do it again for three months. But that's cool because I just would forget about it if it wasn't in my hat. Another one I have in there is just called Village. And there's a village about, I don't know, maybe 25 minutes from here that is super walkable. It's really cute. And if it's a decent day, I'll just drive down to that village and walk around, sit on a bench, just kind of hang out for a little bit. And it's nice. But these are really great ways for me to break up that routine. And also remind myself of little things that I like doing.