Category: Retirement planning
How to retire happy, find out with retirement planning goals
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Real Cost of Long-Term Care in Retirement and How to Prepare Financially
If there is one topic retirees love to avoid, it is long term care. I get it. It is not exactly dinner table conversation. Most of us would rather talk about travel plans, grandchildren, or which beach chair is best for an afternoon nap. But long-term care is one of the biggest financial risks in Read more
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Why Some Couples Struggle After Retirement and How to Fix It
Retirement should feel like a long vacation with your favorite person. No alarm clocks. No commutes. No office politics. Just freedom. And yet, some couples struggle after retirement for some reason. Yet I have seen, and personally experienced in moments, that retirement can quietly strain even strong marriages. The shift from structured work life to Read more
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How to Find Your Purpose in Retirement Before You Leave Your Career
Retirement planning advice usually focuses on money. Build the portfolio. Reduce debt. Optimize Social Security. Control taxes. I have written about all of that, and it matters. But after years of studying retirement, psychology, and health research, I have come to a simple conclusion. If you retire without a clear purpose that inspires you, your Read more
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Try a Six Month Trial Retirement for Best Results
Retirement is often sold as a single, dramatic moment. One day you’re answering emails and setting alarms, the next day you’re sipping coffee at 10 a.m. in your pajamas wondering why everyone else looks so rushed. That image is appealing, no doubt about it. But after years of working with retirees and living through parts Read more
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The 10 Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself Before Retiring
Retirement has a funny way of sneaking up on us. One minute we’re counting down vacation days, the next minute we’re staring at a calendar with absolutely nothing circled in red. When I first started thinking seriously about retirement, I assumed the biggest questions would be financial. How much money do I need, will it Read more
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How to Reinvent Yourself After Retirement
Reinventing Yourself After Retirement: A New Chapter, A New You Retirement is often seen as the grand finale—the long-awaited golden years of rest and relaxation. But for many, it can also bring uncertainty, boredom, or even a sense of loss. The structure of a career, the social connections made at work, and the daily sense Read more
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Retirement conundrum – what to do when I retire?
Most people spend their entire lives making money, which of course is needed to survive and have the things we want in life such as a house, nice car, etc. and to pay for raising our kids. But the entire time we are working, our minds are occupied with the thought of the next Read more
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Are you retiring before or after your spouse?
Another thing to consider is if you are married, or living together as a couple, have you thought about who might retire first? How does the other person feel about that? For most couples it isn’t practical or convenient to retire at the same time, or even the same year in most cases, unless you Read more
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Retirement – the perfect time to enjoy life to the fullest!
When we’re young, we don’t really have a filter on our thoughts about what we want to be when we grow up. I wanted at one time to be a professional tennis player, since that was what I felt passionate about in high school. Of course, the reality set in when I found out how Read more
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Why do you want to retire?
That may seem like an obvious thing to answer, like who doesn’t love the idea of not working any longer? But if you really give it some thought it’s not so obvious. Most people may not love their jobs (it’s been said that anywhere between 50-85% of people in the US are not satisfied with Read more