You know, if I was just to arbitrarily chop up your retirement into four chapters, your one,

your two, your three, your four, which of those was the most difficult and which has been

the best so far?

The first year was the hardest.

It was the most difficult just as a psychological component, like we talked about before.

This last year has to be the best.

And so it's kind of been a

evolution, finding out what I'm going to do. And I'm kind of locking into that now. And so now I

can make some progress. Retirement is not a death sentence. I mean, we all are going to die,

but it's not like I'm going home to die kind of thing.

And retirement, if you look over the history, is a relatively unique thing.

A hundred years ago, our great grandparents didn't retire per se.

They still had to still had to work on their farm.

So we have to figure out how to survive this retirement, and more survive, how do we thrive

in a new environment?

Jim retired at 59, but his retirement was challenging.

Listening as he talks about his loss of identity and purpose, and in many cases, didn't

even feel like getting out of bed in the morning.

What turned that around was a move to a new environment pursuing his creative

interests and some serendipitous interactions. All this and more on today's episode of retirement

reality. My guest today is Jim. Jim, thank you for joining me. How long have you now been

retired for? At the beginning of October, it was four years. Four years.

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