Milton
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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If you keep track of your annual expenses and contrast them with the annual income produced by your investments, you should be able to see the evidence in pre-retirement.I would imagine that my first years in ER will be pretty nerve-wracking until I have shown myself that I can indeed support myself over a long period of time without working. That's a non-intuitive idea for me and the best way for me to believe it will be the reality of seeing it happen.
I have done this for the past several years, and it was encouraging to see a (hypothetical) deficit become a surplus. I certainly don't want ER to be nerve-wracking!