Life Plan for Retirement
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Life Plan: Make Your Retirement a Golden Dream
I am outta here! Life planning? No kidding, it's retirement. Thirty five years of working for "the man" and the feet are going up. The money is just about enough...the debts are nil.....I've done fairly well..... give me my parachute!
Getting to the magic age when we can say good bye to our 9-5 job and enjoy our freedom is a big golden dream that carries many folk through employment thick and thin. Lawyer, manager, caretaker or caregiver...the vision carries us on.
We look forward to this as we work our hours and pay our retirement and pension plans, like a desert hiker looks forward to a glass of water. Schemes and dreams as we build the means and endless panting blather to whoever will listen. The plan is solid.....we think, without realizing that we are just focusing on the financial part of retirement and forgetting what we really need is a life plan.
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This is livin
T he first day.....the first month....maybe the first six months......"man...this is livin'" After a year in retirement, when we have read books till we Kindle Calluses and played golf/tennis/tai chi till the image palled. When we have visited all the places on our bucket list and listened to Bach until our eyes were crossed.... so many retirees realize that the books look blurred, the games are slow motion and the travel budget is competing with the insurance bills. Hmmmmmm.
Life Plan for Retirement
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How is retirement like?
Having fun?
Retirement can be boring
So plan for life not retirement
T he dream is thinning like a New England fog. A massive billboard comes up on the Life Highway with an Uncle Sam like finger pointing at our forehead saying "YOU ARE BORED".
OK...something part time so I don't have to stare at the dog 24/7. Not so easy. We can hardly find jobs even at the burger flipping level because there are so many young ones in line ahead. Even volunteer jobs are tough to find as students compete to complete their community involvement points required by most schools. Try to get an extra street to canvas in the annual Stroke and Heart door to door and the granny mafia will attack with umbrellas!
How has been your life after retirement?
Did you make of your retirement a life worth living?
S ome have gone online, opened a blog and are doing very well. (Thank goodness for Squidoo and its ilk). Others build trains, fly miniature planes, paint and sculpt or just become pests as an unwanted neighbourhood watch peeking out their windows. Each of us has a different experience. I have friends who are very happy working in their garden, doing crafts, becoming full time grandparents and washing their cars.
How retirement will pan out we don't know
We need some kind of a life plan
T he key thing is we don't know how retirement will pan out until we get into it. And without some kind of plan B or C, many just go into full couch rot or become scowling mall walkers or become judges in speed grass growing. So, plan now. Ten years before bail out time, start working on an action based life plan that keeps you feeling like a human and not a dust devil under a low bed.
A Healthy Life at Retirement
Why we need a life plan
B ismarck, the master planner of 65 as the key retirement age didn't talk much about life planning as he assumed we would all be dead at 67. (He was right in the late 19th century) A lifetime of bad food, dangerous jobs and quixotic health care usually didn't result in a long leisurely retirement. The world was a bad Dickens novel with brutish and short as key descriptors of life. This does not seem to be true now when people are still healthy when they retire and hang on for 2 decades or more before eternity.
Life planning for retirement
Why the plan for retirement is necessary
What others say about life planning for retirement
Let's hear those who have the experience
- Age Is A Major Factor When It Comes To Retirement Planning
- Your age also plays a role in what you need to do to avoid retirement account penalties. Age 21. Employees can generally first join a 401(k) plan at age 21. Plan sponsors are allowed to exclude employees younger than 21 from 401(k) plans, ...
- Retirement planning for the North Sea
- Amec's Europe and Africa managing director of natural resources, John Pearson, said Aberdonians (and he speaks as one) are rarely given to outbursts of enthusiasm, but he is clear in his near- and long-term optimism about what that retirement planning ...
- Canada Retirement Planning: Majority Plan To Work To 66 And Beyond, Sun Life ...
- Sun Life Financial's annual Unretirement Index poll, released early Wednesday, found that only about three in 10 Canadians surveyed said they plan full retirement at that age. Nearly five in 10 _ about 48 per cent _ said they plan to work part-time or ...
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- Retirement advising prerequisite: Psych 101
- (Reuters) - In 2005, after 20 years as a New York state trooper, Nicole Wilder was able to start her retirement at age 48. Then the 2008 economic crisis hit. Half of her life savings, which had been tied up in a 401(k) account, was wiped out.
- Age Is A Major Factor When It Comes To Retirement Planning
- Your age also plays a role in what you need to do to avoid retirement account penalties. Age 21. Employees can generally first join a 401(k) plan at age 21. Plan sponsors are allowed to exclude employees younger than 21 from 401(k) plans, ...
- TV journalist Belva Davis announces retirement
- By Chuck Barney Belva Davis, a trail-blazing journalist and Bay Area television fixture, has announced that she will retire from the anchor chair later this year. Davis was the first black female TV journalist on the West Coast and has been in ...
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Ladymermaid
Sep 10, 2011 @ 8:26 am | delete
- There are indeed many extremely lonely senior citizens because they failed to plan for retirement and then found themselves terribly bored and dissatisfied when they wound up just sitting at home watching television or their spouse passed on. Planning for retirement is very important.
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aesta1
Oct 14, 2011 @ 11:43 pm | delete
- You are right especially when we live much longer now after retirement.
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CaraLarose
Jan 30, 2011 @ 9:59 pm | delete
- If ever time comes when I'll retire, I wanted to live at one of the retirement homes, Pennsylvania-based. Since most of retirement homes, PA-based have skilled nurses and have good facilities, I'm sure I'll live in a safe place.
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glockr
Dec 22, 2010 @ 11:39 pm | delete
- Nice lens. I'm a more than a few years away from retirement but saving as much as I can and trying to get our house paid off early. It's sad that so many people think they'll be able to get by on SSI when they retire. I'm not counting on getting anything from SSI.
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DinosaurEgg
Dec 20, 2010 @ 3:23 pm | delete
- Great lens. I haven't retired yet, but I'm definitely planning it, well semi-retirement anyway. And thanks for featuring my early retirement extreme lens. Seems that we have an interest in common.
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