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Kiplinger
Kiplinger
Business
Maurie Backman

Lost Your Spark? 6Ways to Break Out of a Retirement Funk

An older woman closes her eyes, smiles and lifts her arms out in happiness.

You wake up naturally on your first day of retirement, with no alarm, just as you dreamed of doing during decades of a stressful career. You delight in the freedom from work responsibilities and schedules, and the chance to travel and spend time with friends and family. You are, in short, enjoying the honeymoon phase of retirement.

But after a few years (or even months), something inside you might shift.

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