But what are the things that you are looking forward to doing now that you were not able to do while you're still working?

It is. That's a wide-up book, and that's the great thing about retirement. You can do what you want when you want to do it. And everything flows down. I mean, I'm not in a hurry anymore. You know, used to, you know, with your job and your responsibilities at home and everything.

You know, you seem like you're always in a hurry to get things done so you can get back home or get back to work or, you know, if I want to, I can take a leisurely hour and a half,

two hour lunch somewhere if I want to.

Michael always wanted to retire early, but it wasn't until his wife's major scare with cancer

that reframe the way he thought about work in the first place. Tune in as Michael shares about his journey and his wife's journey

through her chemo treatment, how this perspective, along with the death of other loved ones,

led him to retire early because life is precious and were never promised tomorrow.

My guest on today's episode of retirement reality is Michael, Michael,

if you could choose one word to describe your retirement so far, what would it be?

Liberation. I'm no longer chained to a desk for eight hours a day. No longer under,

you know,

I work from home,

so no longer under house arrest all day long,

you know,

eight hours a day.

I can do what I want,

when I want.

Suffer with my wife telling me that.

But it is.

It's just,

it's real liberation to be able to do things that maybe I was not able to do before

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