Both Sides of the Retirement Planning Coin
Steve Juetten has a great post this morning titled “Six retirement traps and how to avoid them.” He’s a financial advisor who really gets it! His first two “traps” are lack of a retirement map and self-limiting attitudes. He goes on the mention four financial bad ideas, but it’s great that his post starts where those who are thinking about retirement need to start–with what they want to DO and how they want to go about it.
There are a lot of pieces to this retirment puzzle and we each have a different set to work with. Is a move to a warmer, drier climate really what you need? Or are you going to be oblivious of the weather of you get involved in that amazingly cool thing you thought had already passed you by? Are you assuming you know the answer to those–and similar –questions or have you taken the time to carefully check them out?
Do what you can to get the financial piece to work. Do even more to know yourself well enough to have a clear idea of the lifestyle, involvement, and adventures you want when you decide it’s time to step into this next stage of life.
Tags: non-financial retirement planning, Retirement strategies