Life after retirement

If anything, keep it simple. Don’t collect clutter. Have a place for everything like in the military. My son just retired from the air force in April officially. He quickly started working and school. Going from cut and dry and regimented to help someone set me free in crazy town not easy. Manage your own life as you did in the service. Make a schedule like you want for what tasks you want, but not like ocd type. Get enough exercise to spend that extra anxiety and stress! At work have your station neat, and try to realize you can’t control your boss. Just like the service. Just deal with it! That’s all you do.

Think about goals you want to achieve in every aspect of your life. Then break them down into lists of tasks that help you get there. Break those tasks down into a regimented schedule.... if there is extra down time, maybe volunteer work or getting involved with something that also helps others......

I studied in a militar fundamental school and everything was pre programmed, the system, the rules helped me to stay organized. When I went to college, the freedom to choose the way you want to have things done was a hell for me, it completely ruined me and I got so lost, I was one of the best students in my military school but I couldn't finish college. It makes me feel a fraud. So I kind of understand what you said, although I wasn't in the army