Retirement tips - ditch deadlines forever

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Never do deadlines again. Deadlines are part of our old work life. And when we go into retirement, we'll have these little projects we want to do, and we'll start to sort of trick ourselves into reliving our work life by creating these deadlines. And I'll tell you how it goes. This is how it went for me. I was retired, you know, I'd been retired for, I don't know, maybe three, six months, whatever. And I was like, I've got all this time. I should be doing things. When I was working, I would have done anything to have this amount of time to just work on projects, hobbies, et cetera. I've got to get busy being retired. I've got to do some things, accomplish some stuff. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to knuckle down and I'm going to get serious about getting some of these things done. So I'm going to set myself some deadlines. And what I found was I was just stressing myself out to try and live my retirement. I'm going to try and live my retirement better or something. So I decided I'm never setting a deadline again. And it's worked out amazing for me. I have projects that are literally two years old. I started years ago and I haven't finished them because I haven't felt like it. But then I just finished a project like in the last week, two weeks that I started over a year ago. And it's an amazing feeling to feel like there's nothing I have to do. And for us as researchers, as retirees to recreate that old work environment by self imposing deadlines because we feel like we're responsible to be more productive or reliable or whatever in retirement. In my opinion, it's just wasting our retirement. Enjoy retirement!