RETIREMENT
PLANNING

Bob: Do you have a
retirement plan?
Ted: Yup, lottery tickets.
Bob: Lottery tickets? That's
it?
Ted: Of course not. Retirement
Plan B is to sue some mega-corporation for a million
bucks.
No doubt you have heard that retirement
planning is important. Anyone who plans retirement lightly may
pay for it heavily later on.
My
retirement plan is to find a
shopping cart with good snow
tires.
- Patty Doyle
In other words, you must take steps to
ensure that when the bell rings to announce your retirement,
you are ready for what is in front of you given the
new retirement paridigm.
Planning for the new
retirement does not only involve the financial aspects
of retirement, however. The time available for marital,
personal, social, creative, and family activities expands
considerably when the hours previously taken up with
full-time employment cease.
How you manage your time in retirement is
just as important as when you are in the workforce and just as
important as how you manage your financial affairs.
When
men reach their sixties
and retire, they go to pieces.
Women go right on cooking.
- Gail Sheehy
Retirement Planning Subjects
and Articles
You can try to create
your retirement plan based on the following retirement
advice on this website to help you retire happy, wild, and
free (Go to the links below to see the articles posted on
the Retirement Cafe Website):
- Retirement Advice
Retirement Advice on The Retirement Café: You Are Never Too Young to Retire — Indeed, the Younger, the Better; 7 Things That You Can Do with Your Extra Time in Retirement; Early Retirement Is an Incredible Retirement Gift; Being Retired Can Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
;
- Saving for Retirement
Saving for Retirement on The Retirement Café: How much should I save for retirement. Is 2 million enough to retire?
- Retirement Income
Retirement Income Resources on the Retirement Café to Help Increase My Retirement Savings and with My Retirement Money: Increasing Your and My Retirement Income; Top 10 Sources of Retirement Income; Retirement Income Resources to Help Increase Your and My Retirement Savings and Your and My Retirement Money; Retirement Income Money Quotes
- Winning a Lottery-The Retirement Plan with the Most Bugs
Winning a Lottery: The Retirement Plan with the Most Bugs to Be Worked Out (Better Known as The Retirement Plan for Dumb People)
- Fears about Retirement
Fears about Retirement: What People Fear Most about Retirement. The Many Fears People Have Before Retiring and in Retirement Itself
- Retirement Speeches
Retirement Speeches Compliments of the Retirement Cafe to Help Prepare You for a Happy, Wild, and Free Retirement
Retirement Planning Wisdom That You
Won’t Get from Your Financial
Advisor
Besides the above webpages,
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free also comes into the
picture if you would like your retirement plan to be as good as
my retirement plan. For the most part,
The World's Best Retirement
Book offers retirement
wisdom that you won’t receive from your financial advisor.
Contrary to popular wisdom, many elements -
not just having a million or two in the bank - contribute to
happiness and satisfaction for today’s retirees. As they plan
retirement, retirees should look at the many non-financial
aspects of retirement. Indeed, physical well-being, mental
well-being, and solid social support play bigger roles than
financial status for most retirees.
All of these elements of retirement should
be part of your retirement plan just as it is for my retirement
plan.
Heaven, that’s my
retirement plan.
- Author
Unknown
In this vein, what sets
The World's Best Retirement
Book apart from all other retirement
books is its holistic approach to the fears, hopes, and dreams
that people have about their retirement years.
How to Retire Happy Wild, and
Free goes way beyond the numbers that is
often the main focus of so-called "retirement planning" in
most retirement books.
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free helps retirees
address what is truly important in their lives through a wide
range of topics including:
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what retirement activities are the most
satisfying
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how to have a
happy retirement even if you do not a
million or two saved for retirement
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why physical exercise should be part of your
daily routine
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why you probably should get rid of your TV
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how to keep your mind sharp and active in
retirement
In short, How to Retire Happy
Wild, and Free allows employees and
clients to plan for their retirement in new and more
meaningful ways.
The traditional retirement planning industry
falls short on providing retirement planning tools that help
individuals gain insight into what truly matters most about
their lives and their retirement. For example, The Retirement
Planning Association of Canada (RPAC) provides a
multitude of resources to its members via a variety of
education programs but all its members are not preaching a
holistic approach for retirement planning.
My
retirement plan is to start
thinking about my retirement before
my boss does.
- Author
Unknown
Of course, there are people who realize the
new retirement planning model requires new styles of
planning and preparedness that are covered in the world's
best retirement book. U.S. News retirement
reporter Emily Brandon in her Planning
to Retire Blog tells her readers how to plan
financially for retirement as well as how to make the best
use of their time in their retirement years.
What is important is that different
individuals will have different retirement needs. How to
Retire Happy, Wild, and Free allows individuals to
meet their particular needs like no other retirement
resource has done to date.
There are many ingredients of a happy
retirement and several retirement tools that you won't find
anywhere else and which help retirees plan for their
retirement in new and more meaningful ways.
The Ideal Retirement
Plan: "Marry an old rich broad
and wait for her to die."
- Ivan Wilson (commenting on an
online article about retirment
planning.)
One of the most powerful retirement
planning resources is The Get-a-Life
Tree in Chapter 3, which you won't find in any
other retirement books.
The Get-a-Life Tree is
particularly useful for those retirees who haven't
cultivated interests outside the workplace and are destined
for unhappiness and perpetual boredom if they don't develop
"active retirement activities" such as adventure
travel and taking courses through Elderhostel
instead of "passive activities" such as watching TV and
gambling.
Ernie Zelinski emphasizes that if you manage
to retire happy, wild, and free, then your retirement will
be more rewarding than your career ever was.
The elements of such a retirement plan
should include a variety of passive and active retirement
activities, great friends, a sense of purpose, some
structure in your day, plenty of healthy exercise, something
to stimulate your mind, and spiritual growth.
Various chapters are devoted to the
consideration of
retirement activities that enhance body, mind, and
spirit.
See a
Review of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free on Quintessential
Careers.
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of The
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RETIREMENT PLANNING ARTICLES
- COMING
SOON
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Winning a Lottery - The Retirement Plan
with the Most Bugs to Be Worked Out (Better Known
as the Retirement Plan for Dumb People)
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Is Your Retirement Plan a New
Job?
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Why Most Americans and Canadians Suck at Retirement
(Planning)
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The Joy of Being Retired: 365 Reasons Why
Retirement Rocks
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Are You Prepared for Retirement - Think hard!
- Retire Before You Expire - Why
Tempt Fate and Die Working?
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Retirement Allows You to
Pursue Your First Love - Which Is to Live Life to
the Fullest
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Retire Early - Here's
How!
- Ready to Retire Happy - Get Real!
(Surprise - Retiring Happy Isn't
All about Money)
-
Retirement Planning
Tip - Get More Serious about Leisure than about
Finances
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7 Secrets to a Happy
Retirement
- Don't Let How Old You Are Dictate
When You Retire or Enter Old Age
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Forget How Old You Are - This
Gets More Important the Older You Get
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Live Gloriously, Live Happily,
and Live Dangerously!
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Magical Retirement Plan #27 -
Make the Creation and Maintenance of
Friends Your Overriding Purpose
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Be a Child Again
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Magical Retirement Plan #137 -
Remember That Being Over the Hill Means
Picking Up Speed!
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Find Creative Ways to Kill
Boredom Without a Gun
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The Magical Retirement Plan
for High Achievers - Don't Retire!
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The Ultimate Retirement Plan -
Make Retirement the Beginning of Life,
Not the End!
- Plan Retirement #26 -
Assume You Have One More Shot at
It! (Already Written in Retirement
Article Files)
- Retirement Plan # 49 - Find
Creative Ways to Kill Boredom
Without a Gun
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Ernie J.
Zelinski Author of
The World's Best Retirement
Planning Book
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