Thinking about retirement, make sure you do this. Okay, we do this. Great question to kick it off with. It's a question from Gail.

It says, I'm transitioning to retirement

in the next few years.

Oh, congratulations.

What are the most important things to think about?

Mm.

Yeah, man, this one is really interesting and this is one we get a lot because everybody, they

dream about retirement. retirement is this thing that we look to the future and it's this amazing

thing and we have this goal that one day I'm going to retire,

one day I'm going to do this thing.

But since we're only going to likely do it one time and we want it to be pretty special, we want to make sure we're doing

the things on the front end to make sure it's successful because the last thing we want

us to work for our entire career and get to retirement and it turns out to be something less than what we thought it was and unfortunately

we've seen this happen a little bit because we're gonna kind of talk through

okay what are some of the things that you ought to think about but I think just on a high level kind of zooming out a little bit

obviously there's the mathematics obviously there's the knowing your number and walking

through that kind of stuff but one of the things that I tell people is the biggest thing that you need to figure

out as you're thinking about retirement, as you're thinking about financial independence, as you're

transition to that stage of life is don't just understand what you're retiring from. I'm getting away from the

nine to five, I'm getting away from that boss, I'm getting away from those colleagues, I'm getting

away from whatever that thing is, but really have a laser clear idea of what is it I'm retiring too because it's that

thing that you are retiring too that is going to give you the staying power

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