Retirement tips - be prepared for the effects of l…

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Be prepared for the effects of loss of validation from work. Once you leave work, you're not going to get that validation that you got every day from solving problems, helping people, teaching, coaching, mentoring. And it will put a pretty good hit on your sense of worth and your validation. What can happen is, and I've done other videos on this, is we can accidentally go looking for that validation elsewhere. Like something I call the get off my lawn syndrome, where we sort of start looking for areas to start nitpicking at or we start picking fights, things like that. Because we just are feeling unimportant and that no one's listening to us anymore, which is to a degree true. And, you know, the second thing that can happen is when we start losing our source of validation, we feel less validated. So we might start looking to the people around us. Wondering, are they validating us less? They're not validating us less. We're just feeling less validated. And we may accidentally feel like they're lowering their amount of respect and validation they've been given just because we feel like we're getting less respect and validation. So you have to watch for the effects of the loss of validation.