A very warm welcome to the early retirement show, the show dedicated to helping you navigate

the nuances of an early retirement, a non-traditional retirement.

Now let's get right into the episode so we can learn how to retire early.

Welcome back to the early retirement podcast, and I want to start by saying, yes, you can work too long. Now, it's not going to hurt you financially, but I would argue it does something much greater, where it doesn't help you optimize your life. And so today's episode is a very fun one, a very important one, as I see it, which is how do you make sure that you do not overwork? Which, once again, I know that

sounds weird. So this is what we're going to be talking about today. Once again, please keep submitting

your questions. I love getting those questions on my website, early retirement podcast.com.

I will look to answer those in a future episode. I do reply to all of them. And please, please,

keep going and submitting those

questions and let me know. If you want a custom strategy, once again, this is what I do. I love

helping people go through the process to understand when they are in a position to optimize their

investments, their taxes, their estate plan, all of that good stuff. That is what we do. And

without further ado,

let's hop right in. And I always want to start by saying, big picture when it comes to retirement,

what is your dream retirement? Not just, okay, we have food on the table and yes, we're paying for

gas. And yeah, that's what we want. We certainly want to meet our core expenses, but what would

really excite you in retirement?

Sometimes retirement can be a topic that can feel very intimidating for a good reason, oftentimes,

but also we don't focus on the fun of it, in my opinion, as often as we need to,

which is we're talking about creating your dream retirement here.

So this should be fun.

Everything I talk about are the strategies to make sure that you can start dreaming and dreaming with realistic expectations.

So here's when I like to start. I'm going to start by explaining that sometimes as an advisor, I know that it's going to sound very weird to a client, but I will advise that they stop working, which, yes, that hurts them financially,

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