What’s Coming . . .

The first priority as you approach the next journey in your life . . . retirement . . . is to be sure you know the route. Most of us wouldn’t think of traveling into territory that’s unfamiliar to us without a map! You could follow the sun, westward, and find your way to California. And you could wind up on deadends, cul-de-sacs, roads “under construction”, etc., and perhaps land in San Diego or Spokane when you really wanted to arrive in Northern California. You will have wasted time, fuel and fires.

Instead, we should study a good map; a map that will help us visualize the continuity of our path. A companion to that map, might be a guide to hotels, motels and restaurants along the way — maybe even an auto club guide with information on the quality of not only the restaurants and lodging but even where the roads are “under construction”! In short, planning our trip will get us where we are going with the least outlay of time, and cash.

To approach retirement, is no less important, yet some of us arrive at the gates of retirement with no idea of how we got here and less of a clue as to what we are going to do now that we’re here!

Much of what you’ll read here, is about planning for retirement — whether you are in your forties, twenties or sixties! We’ll take a look together at the journey from the point of view of planning and mapping it out, financing the trip, packing the car, hitting the road and reaching our destination.