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If you've been watching my videos from the beginning of my retirement, you've seen me kind of struggle with like how I perceive the value of my time in retirement. And it started with, I need to be doing meaningful, valuable things with my time. And then I got past that and I was like, it doesn't matter how I spend my time, but I want to spend it. I don't want to save it. I don't want to maximize it. I want to spend my time. And recently it occurred to me, I was trying to figure out like, why is it that I don't care if I spend two hours changing my oil? Like, do I think my time's worthless? And I realized, I want to say that I really see my time more as priceless, but that's kind of a cheesy way to look at it. But it's the closest I can come. Because if someone offered me, you know, some amount of money for my time, I wouldn't take it. Unless it was something that I already would be doing for fun. So I've realized that I can't put a value on my time. If I, you know, if I change my oil, it's because I don't want somebody else leaving a bolt out or not replacing the crush washer. Which, by the way, happens every time I have someone else change my oil. So I don't care that it takes me time to do things. And I don't care if I spend forever doing a thing. Because my time has no value. Meaning, I can place no value on it. And it's just kind of neat because in the first year of my retirement, I would have said, well, I guess my time has no value. I guess my time's worthless. But it really is more like no price can be paid. I can be placed on it. But I don't like to say priceless because it's just something cheesy. I feel like I would see on a brochure of some retirement huckster trying to sell you a portfolio or something. But that's what it feels like. It feels like my time is actually priceless. And by the way, I'm just rolling into year five. And I do think it takes three years to get used to retirement. I think it's in year five that I've really started to understand. Retirement. And people told me that in my early videos, they were like, it's going to take three years to get accustomed to being retired. And some people said five years. And I think I think the fifth year is when you start understanding retirement rather than just becoming accustomed to it.