It s really easy to overbook yourself in your firs…

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Don't overbook yourself with honeydew items in your first year of retirement. A really common approach that a lot of new retirees take is they say, I'm going to knock out all those projects that I've been putting off all these years in my first year of retirement. So a common one is clean the basement, clean the attic, clean the closets, organize things, and then they start tackling all the little broken things around the house, around the property, etc. There's nothing wrong with that. It's great because a lot of us enjoy doing those things. But what can happen is we start feeling guilty when we aren't accomplishing those tasks. So I would say it's absolutely reasonable and healthy for most people to use the first year of their retirement to knock out a bunch of those sort of nagging tasks around the house. Where it becomes problematic is when you start saying, you're setting yourself deadlines, you start feeling guilty that you aren't getting enough of them done, etc. I've given the example before that, you know, I've taken sometimes a week to mow the grass. And I've heard, I learned this here on the platform. People have told me that. They've said, it takes me four days to mow my lawn. And you just have to give yourself permission to take as long as you want on any task. And you can't, like, don't start making promises. People who deal with shame oftentimes use deadlines. And promises to shame themselves into finishing a project. Don't ruin your retirement by becoming your own worst boss. By trying to shame yourself into finishing things through some sort of ill-conceived accountability scheme. Just don't make promises to yourself or anyone else about what you hope to accomplish. And then work on things when you feel like it. It's your retirement. Kick back. Have fun with your retirement.