How Much Will You Need to Retire?
There are levels of preparedness when it comes to looking down the road at your retirement and how much you will need when you get there. The basic level of retirement planning is to sign up for your 401k at work, support legislation to keep Social Security intact, buy some life insurance and let it go at that. This system will work so there is reason to call this bad retirement planning. After all, if you began preparing for retirement in your early adult life and stayed with it, you will have a resource to retire on and that’s a ...
Getting a Professional into the Act
Do you see planning for your retirement as your responsibility or something someone else should do for you? That is a pretty shocking question isn’t it? It is the kind of question that makes it sound like if your retirement funds are under the care of your employer, that you are not being a responsible person. Of course that is not the purpose of the question. If you have taken the step of participating in your employer’s retirement program or 401K, then you are definitely showing plenty of personal reasonability for your retirement planning. But when you think about it, what ...
A New Life – A New Career
For many the idea of retirement comes with the automatic translation that it means that you will stop working is just not acceptable. For many, retirement from work is equivalent with no longer living. If you have been a productive worker all of your life and someone asked you what your dream retirement might look like, you might respond “to work” because you may be one of those people for whom work is what gives meaning and purpose to life. It isn’t fair for us to impose the same standards of retirement on everyone. To say that to enjoy your golden ...
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Your Financial Future Is In Your Hands All of us have one big transition facing us not that far down the road. Of course life is all about transitions. We make a transition from childhood to adolescence. We transition from being a child of a house to adulthood and independence. And we make big transitions through marriage, parenthood and even becoming a grandparent. But of all of these,... [Read more of this article]
Turning that Mortgage Around Your house that you bought so many years ago represents one of the biggest investments of your life. By the time you approach retirement, if you have stuck with it, you may well have that house paid off. And with appreciation, that home may be worth twice or three times what you paid for it and you have all the equity from those years of house payments.... [Read more of this article]
The Who, What, When, Where and Why of Retirement In the newspaper business, when a reporter wants to find out all about a case, they always ask the big five questions which are who, what, when, where and why. If the reporter can get these basic questions answered about any story, that is considered good research. We can use the same approach as we begin to process the idea of retirement planning.... [Read more of this article]
The Many Levels of Retirement Planning The concept of retirement planning brings up the image of you working with your investment counselor or setting up your 401K so you have adequate financial resources when you retire. And it is true that a big part of being ready to retire involves being ready financially to be able to step out of the work world and start to take life easier. But... [Read more of this article]
The Hidden Dangers of Retirement We can all remember a time when we took the children to some event or theme park that was supposed to be “totally awesome”. Then when the kids get there and see that Mickey Mouse is a guy in a suit and that the rides are about the same as the local Six Flags, an inevitable let down and disappointment sets in. And that is no fun for the parents on... [Read more of this article]
Taking Your Retirement Around the World One of the most common dreams many people have for their retirement years is to travel. So often when you are in the middle of building a career and raising a family, your travel consists of trips to Orlando for Disney World or doing something focused on the kids. So when you get to that phase of life where your children are grown up and it’s just... [Read more of this article]
Scaling Back the Farm When you are in the middle of your years of raising a family, there is nothing like owning your own home to make that experience rewarding. So if you bought a home with the conventional yard, fence, neighbors, dog and all of the trappings of suburbia, you no doubt have many happy memories that you had “back at the farm” as you may have called it.... [Read more of this article]
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