Episode 74

When the daily stress of my job went away I found…

· 1:25 · Adjustment

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Another issue that I had to get over pretty quickly early in my retirement is what I'm calling the get off my lawn syndrome and it happened probably in the first six months of my retirement all of the stress of my work had pretty much disappeared by this point and I didn't have the day-to-day things that I needed to sort out and I found myself starting to kind of hone in on little things that didn't matter like I was watching what my neighbor was doing on his land over there I was getting super frustrated with little things that normally wouldn't bother me before because frankly I had bigger fish to fry but what I found was I was basically trying to replace all the stress that I had experienced running the business with just this and once I realized I was doing it I started thinking I'm turning into that old dude who's like hey you kids get off my lawn and I had to get a hold of that pretty quickly but once I did I started questioning like the things that got on my nerves and I had to do a pretty thorough analysis of what I was going to let myself fixate on and what I wasn't