Welcome back to the early retirement podcast. I mentioned this on the last episode, which is I'm no

longer rolling the intro. I'm just going right into the episode because I want to start providing

that value right away when I listen to podcast myself, as I'm a big podcast listener, both

financial podcasts and non-financial podcasts, that I just tend to skip the first 10, 15, 30 seconds.

And I just get right into the episode. So I want to start doing the same for you all. I will promise that I just tend to skip the first 10, 15, 30 seconds, and I just get right into the episode. So I want to start doing the same for you all. I promise that I will not be saying this every episode because that would defeat the purpose of this. But I just wanted to once again mention that if you did not see last weekend's episode. So what I want to talk about today is a really fascinating topic in my mind and this is what clients tell me

which is how do you get more life out of your money what are the best things you can do once

you're retired to really fulfill what's most important to you and how do you are aligned your

money to do exactly that so that's what i'm going to be talking about today if you haven't already

checked out the youtube videos that i've been making recently please please check those out. I ask strangers about money. What's been successful to them,

how they retired, what can they do today now that they couldn't do before because they had to work

and how their mindset has shifted. So once again, always like to start this by saying,

thank you so much for all those who have been submitting questions and rating the show and reviewing the show. It helps the show grow and helps me get to help more people retire early. So very special for me. I don't take it lightly that you all take the time to listen to this. I hope, of course, it has been valuable. If it has been, I kindly ask that you rate the show. So that is my only ask.

I appreciate it. And what I'm going to start with is how do you think about aligning your money with

what's most important to you? Where do you start? Well, everyone's heard the phrase. No money can't

buy happiness, but it can buy, enter whatever you want there. And that's kind of the same thing,

because people want to think

about money in a very interesting way because there's biases and there's heuristics involved with

money. And the way that you grew up around money, I know a lot of you have shared with me,

which by the way, I love when you submit this on my website, you'll tell me, Ari, I've never been

a good spender. I've always been a good saver.

And now you're asking me to be a good spender in retirement when that's not what I've been doing.

I've been a good saver. And that saving mindset has got you until retirement. And you're

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