You may think you need $2 million to retire.

You might think you need $3 million.

You might actually not know how much you need to retire.

But the reality is none of that actually applies to you.

Now, I know that's not super helpful.

So what I'm going to do on this episode is tell you that if you have about $1.5 million

or if you're on track for $1.5 million, what that could mean for you if you were to stop working

tomorrow? Now, most of the time, when I speak to someone and they're interested in retiring early,

it's not necessarily, hey, I'm trying to do that tomorrow, but it's mainly I would love to know if

I'm working because I want to or because I have to. Because if I really had enough money, I probably wouldn't keep working at the rate that I'm working

because it's really impacting my health, time with family or friends or relationships.

So I just want to know when is it possible.

Now, the idea that you need a million or five million or ten million, none of that applies to you. You need to make sure you have enough money

to live the life you want to live. Why is that important? I had a client who, and I often will share

stories when I record these different podcasts or YouTube videos because I find this is the most

fun way to learn. I watch YouTube videos myself, and this is how I like

to engage content. So I make YouTube videos, and I watch a lot of YouTube videos. So I hope this

resonates with you. But this person reached out and said, hey, I really don't think I can retire early.

I only have about $1.2 million. My neighbor actually has, I know more than that, because we're very transparent with finances, and I asked them to tell me how much. And they said, it's just more than that. That's all you need to know. And I said, why are you hesitant to retire? And they said, well, because they have more than me, and they don't seem like they're anywhere close to retiring. And I said, that is complete head trash. You don't know if they want to spend

50,000 a month. You don't know if there's three kids that they're supporting. You don't know if

there's a second home they want to buy. They might have completely different goals. And the fact that

you're considering not retiring, even though you're actually in a pretty good spot to make it happen

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