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I can relate. This sounds like me when I retired, up at 6, showered and ready to go by 8, but go where? I had projects lined up and needed to fill the hours until I was ready to let myself enjoy the time off. Now I barely know what day of the week it is. I relish the freedom of not needing to know.

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Goals! I aspire to not knowing what day of the week it is. :)

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Love this. We all need time to lie fallow before we re-bloom.

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OMG! I am dealing with the exact same thing right now. I am trying to launch this course, work a full time job, and do everything else. If my corporate job is slower I'm incapable of taking a nap because I feel like I need to be producing. I'm having FULL BLOWN identity crisis (is the plural crises I can't be bothered to click the dictionary app) on a daily basis because I am realizing I have tied so much of my worth to my production and my work.

Also SWOON CITY OVER HERE->

“I haven’t had free time in 20 years, I’m in identity free-fall,” I text the pharmacist.

“You know you’re priceless, right?” he replies.

It is also my goal to work 4 days per week, congrats on making the jump, you'll find your way slowly but surely and enjoy your rest! I'm going to try to do it more too!

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Hahah I totally feel you on the daily identity crisis!! Good luck on the course launch!

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So true, so true. Waiting for landing during free-fall is excruciating! Good idea to float around Brooklyn Botanic Garden. (Thank you for the memory of living near there...long time ago.) It's almost time for the hellebores again.

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Waiting for landing during free-fall… exactly. And I’m reading this from my happy place in the botanical garden greenhouses. :)

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