Category: Retirement planning
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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
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Questions to ask in retirement
There are many questions to ask yourself when you are seriously considering retirement for the first time, or even the second time. Most of those questions surround the financial arena, such as “do I have enough money” or even “will I run out of money” – these are the most serious questions we all ask Read more
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Retirement planning – when to start
If you wanted to retire right now, would you be able to? What would stop you, is it the money or something else? We all think we want to retire ASAP – but when we start to think more clearly about the reasons we want to retire, it is not as simple as it sounds. Read more