There's something in psychology called the arrival fallacy.

And it's the illusion that once we make it, once we attain our goal or reach our destination,

then we will have lasting happiness.

Then, of course, we reach our goal, we reach our destination, and we find that lasting happiness

has somehow alluded us.

This is something I see quite a bit with retirement.

You think that as soon as you have a big enough sum of money, then you'll automatically

experience that freedom and that happiness that you've been searching for. Fortunately, you think that as soon as you have a big enough sum of money, then you'll automatically experience

that freedom and that happiness that you've been searching for.

Fortunately, that's really actually the case.

And to help us understand why we have guests, Sin Meyer, on the show, Sin is a retirement

life coach and the founder of Second Wind Movement.

Sin, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited.

This is another episode of Ready for Retirement. I'm your host, James Cannell, and I'm here to teach you how to get the most of life with your money. And now on to the episode.

I am too. I didn't tell you this actually before, before hitting record, but this is actually going to be the 200 episode of Ready for Requirement.

So a milestone, I guess you want to call it that.

And sometimes on those milestone episodes, you want to talk about something extra special or

extra important outside the usual Social Security, Medicare, investments, taxes.

And I think that this is one of those milestone topics of who cares how big your portfolio is,

who cares how much you saved in taxes, who cares if you had the perfect estate plan.

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