Replying to a commenter great question I often forget…

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Leslie asks, when I say retirement transitioning and retirement planning, what do I mean? And that's a great question. So retirement transitioning is just the psychological, physical, emotional act of moving from a worker to a retiree. So just everything we go through to adjust to the idea that we're no longer working and our time is our own. That's the transition. And the transition takes, it took me about three years. It takes some people longer. It takes some people much less time. As far as the planning goes, when I say planning, I don't mean the financial planning. I mean the emotional, psychological planning. What I learned from a lot of people after I retired and I started this channel was that there's a whole process. Some people go through to like mentally and emotionally. They plan for their retirement. I mean the actual act of mapping out how you're going to spend your retirement from day one. And not everybody needs to do it. I needed to do it and I failed to do it. I just raw dogged it. I just stopped working and just tried to figure it out. And I should have planned better. I should have created some structure for myself. I should have identified activities. I don't need to do every day just to sort of mimic my work life to sort of ease me into retirement. It's a good question.