If you re in the first few years of retirement and…

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This is just a reminder, if you're in the first couple of years of retirement and you're still kind of feeling like you haven't hit your stride, don't sweat it. I went through the first year, so my first six months of retirement were frankly brutal. Like the transition was terrible. I did it badly. I didn't plan well. And then I didn't do things that I should have done to make it better for me. I just kind of like just powered through it very poorly. Uh, at the end of the first year, I wasn't quite as unstable, so to speak. By the second year, I was starting to actually enjoy it. And now I'm going into the beginning of my fourth year and I absolutely love it. And everybody told me that. So people would come into my comments and in those first few months when I was really like really struggling with the transition, uh, people would come in and say like, don't sweat it, man. In a few years, this is all just going to be a distant memory and you're going to love it. And it's true. Like I look back at those first three to six months when everything just felt so weird and crazy. And it's just like, it just all seems silly to me now. So if you're in retirement and you're in those first couple of years and you're thinking, man, it's been two years. Well, it took me over three. So you get there and some people just do a better job of transitioning. And for some people, there's a saying it's, um, I'd rather spend days in the lab than hours in the library. I just have to do it. I have to get my hands on it and do it. I'm just not good at learning vicariously. I just, I have to just do everything the hard way. And I did retirement the hard way, but even doing it the hard way, three years down the road. And I'm like, this is awesome. It's everything. Everybody told me it would be. It just took me a little, little longer to get there. And if you're wondering, like some people have asked me, like, I don't see as many posts about retirement on your channel. It's because I really post about what's on my mind. And, you know, in the last year, frankly, retirement hasn't been on my mind that much. I've kind of adjusted to it. And, uh, and I've been loving it and you will too. It just takes a little longer for some of us.