Good Retirement Questions

It is never too late or early to plan your retirement. Our retirement questions create a checklist for your new lifestyle and freedom.

Instead of 'retirement', I call it 'retire-ability' because it means you can start at anytime living your ideal lifestyle. You may not be financially ready, but you can get your new life style ready. It is never too early to idealize how to spend your free time and still have meaning and purpose in your life. As early as NOW, you can begin picturing out your best retirement plan.

Below are Good Retirement Questions to ask yourself. These questions are about your quality of life and not about finances. When most people retire there is a lot of support to help them manage their finances and investments.

1. Am I ready, willing and able to start a new lifestyle?
2. What do I enjoy doing alone, with my partner, family, friends and groups?
3. What do I do well (skills, gifts, talents)?
4. What values do I stand for? Define my main personal characteristics.
5. What do I feel about retiring or being retire able? What does my partner feel?
6. What concerns, challenges, and roadblocks do I think are in my way?
7. What can I do to have more fun in my life?
8. What do I want to be? To do? To have?
9. Why do I want the above be, do and haves? Know my motives (my criteria for successful retire-ability).
10. What have I dreamed of doing in the past?
11. What do I enjoy doing that costs under $10?
12. What do I want to learn?
13. What would I do if I encountered divorce, health challenge, market crash, family crisis, etc.?
14. How could I be in service helping others?
15. How can I start living more retire-ability daily, now?
16. Is my will in order?
17. What is my net worth (balance sheet), budget (costs) and income now and for the future?
18. What are my irregular and annual expenses?
19. Where is my financial plan for retire-ability incomplete?
20. Am I going to spend it, have an estate plan, leave a legacy, be a humanitarian, start a foundation and/or give to a charity?

You can start planning for retirement (retire-ability) at anytime. It is often one of the most significant changes one must adjust to in their lives. It is never too early to start. Choose which of the many retirement directions you plan on heading to. Be prepared to overcome hurdles of the biggest transition you may have to overcome in your life.

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