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retirement advice.
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retirement advice.

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Oct 12, 2025, 8:59 PM
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Don't run your business, close some bidness sales, communicate retirement and transfer of representative, navigate transition snags of HO client database transfers and income transfers, take delivery of a new car, repair/prep for sale/sell/trade a car that has check engine lights you're trying to fix, and have your monthly volunteer church treasurer reports including budget info for next year, due in the next two days.

Retirement is looking great if I can navigate the near term.

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Congrats and you got this!

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Oct 12, 2025, 9:16 PM
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I retired 6 years ago and seems like one or two. Goes by so fast.

Enjoy retirement, sir.

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Re: ^^This^^

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Oct 12, 2025, 9:18 PM
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Re: Congrats and you got this!

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Oct 12, 2025, 9:45 PM [ in reply to Congrats and you got this! ]
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Sounds like we retired on the same day. It does go by fast. The only advice I have for enjoying it is to quickly decide where one is going to be (geography, socially), then relax and enjoy whatever that is.

I have recently heard several podcasts by very reputable people I respect that said:
- As we get older, it appears we become forgotten.
- That is not an inaccurate feeling.
- This is a good thing. Do not fight it.
- Do not go see family/friends who no longer value you. Do not sacrifice dignity.
- Fewer friends of greater value is a normal stage. Enjoy it. Do not chase what once was.
- Accept with happiness responsibilities of greater value but lesser, if any, visibility.

Or, as I heard a VP at Wells Fargo say: "In one week I went from Who's Who to 'Who's that?' I thought that was what I wanted, then I had to come to terms with the fact. So, I'm a nobody. Kids at church run the simplest things into the ground, and no one thinks to ask me, who could buy the church with a check, what might work better. Fine. I dont have to worry about any of that any more. I'm a nobody. God will show me to whom I'm not a nobody. And he will probably be a nobody. And that's fine."

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Re: retirement advice.

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Oct 12, 2025, 9:26 PM
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And if you dont navigate it? Almost nothing changes. You are doing great.

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