Nearly everyone we know who achieved early retirement hit a patch of impatience or two while in the savings phase. It absolutely happened to us. In our case, the impatience grew out of a feeling of burnout at work, something that plenty of people who aren’t saving for early retirement experience. And it’s possible that our secret plans actually exacerbated our feeling of burnout, because we felt so close to being able to retire instead of having to survive our jobs like most people. The experience taught us a lot, though, and we found some excellent ways to tamp down impatience whenever those
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