Institute a work complaint ban: Impatience seems most likely to arise when work is the busiest or most stressful. And it’s in those moments when it’s easy to get into a downward spiral of feeling sorry for ourselves for the very fact that we have to work and aren’t retired yet. This can be harmful to your mental state, but it also detracts from the whole journey to early retirement because it makes you forget how lucky and fortunate you are to be able to pursue early retirement at all. For us, nothing made the journey feel faster than when we instituted a rule that we weren’t allowed to
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