Am I Actually Ready to Retire? Try This 90-Day Test

And I don't mean practicing quitting your job and going back.

I don't mean getting everything ready and actually retiring by practice, but, but practicing living on the income with the money coming in that you want to be doing during retirement.

I wanna explain why this is so important.

Like I said at the onset, you've never done this before, and you only do it once.

Hopefully, you only do it once.

So getting yourself comfortable with being responsible for your own paycheck is, is... it's life-changing.

It, it's supposed to be.

You've worked your butt off for the last 40 years to get to this point.

You shouldn't be losing sleep over it.

You should be celebrating it.

And it's funny, just over the weekend, we had dinner with some friends of ours, and they are getting ready...

She is getting ready to retire.

The wife is getting ready to retire.

And even though they've practiced, she's still uneasy because she's never done it before.

You've worked so hard.

You've gone to school.

You've worked your butt off.

You've worked overtime.

You've done all of these things to earn and create and build, and now it's time for e- all of the, the culmination of that life's work to start paying you to not have to work anymore.

So all of that change is uneasy to begin with.

It's human's nature to be resistant to change and uneasy around change, let alone uneasy around change and trying to figure out how the hell you're gonna pay your car note because you don't have salary coming in anymore.

So that's what the dry run is.

And w- and, and very simply, what you do is you just live on the income that you're gonna live on when you retire.

That's it.

Your salary's still coming in.