Is Your 401k On The Right Course? Without a 401k check list how would you know if your 401k is on the right course? You wouldn’t, which is why we have come up with a check list for you. If you review your 401k once a year you stand a better chance of reaching your retirement … Read more
Your Retirement, Your Way Accumulating enough money for the retirement of your dreams is still possible. The best advice you can follow about retirement planning is to stop listening to the negative chatter about dream retirements not being attainable. They are attainable if you follow a few simple retirement rules. #1 – Set Your Savings Goals Before you … Read more
Avoid These 3 Common Retirement Planning Mistakes #1 -Things Always Come Up Putting off retirement investing until all of your other expenses are taken care up is the number one mistake investors make. The cable bill, car repair or additional school supplies for junior should not interfere with saving for your retirement. Other things will always come up. You will … Read more
Retirement Limits? Ahh, retirement, that dreamy place where you have no limits. Your time is yours. You can do anything you want; you can go your own way. Sounds fantastic, no limits on anything. Well, that only works if you can afford it. You need money to live the dream retirement. If your source of money … Read more
Don’t Neglect Your 401k Financial planners sometimes give so much good financial advice that you may feel overwhelmed and just tune-out their advice. One bit of advice you best not tune-out is the advice they give about never neglecting your 401k account. The most important financial discussion you can have with yourself is the one … Read more
Find Money By Managing Your Credit Score The common discouragement among investors trying to save for retirement is not having enough money to do it all. In tough times people cannot find enough money to cover their living expense plus invest in their retirement plans. If that scenario is all too familiar you may be … Read more
Are You Too Young For Retirement Money? Are you too young to think about investing money into a retirement account? Do you take retirement planning serious enough? Is retirement investing a waste of good money? If you think you have better places to spend your money and retirement planning is not one of your priorities, … Read more
Need More Retirement Money? Reaching your retirement goals is a two-step process. Step one is to change your financial habits. Step two will be investing into your retirement accounts that extra money you saved from step one. If you need more retirement money you need to squeeze it out of that which you have available … Read more
Will You Have The Money For Retirement? You know that retirement is more than just a splurge, it’s a new lifestyle. You also know that this new lifestyle will require money. When you hit retirement it will not matter one bit how many travel plans, golf outings, or friends you need to catch up with … Read more
Your Retirement Planning Is Urgent If you want to retire some day you will need to do some retirement planning. It usually takes until your 50’s to realize the mistakes you made in your 20’s. Do yourself a favor, don’t wait that long to make the mistake of not planning for retirement when you are … Read more
Reach Retirement, Avoid Retirement Traps Planning and investing for retirement is a journey. It takes a lifetime. At times during that journey, you may feel overwhelmed, frustrated and discouraged. Make your trip a bit more palatable by avoiding these 4 retirement traps: Trap #1 – Oblivious Investing Even though the American stock market has historically … Read more
Your 5 Practical Retirement Resolutions Now that the campaign glasses have been lifted and lowered in good cheer for the new year it’s time to get down to work. If you expect to celebrate your retirement some day you may want to start getting serious about your retirement resolutions. Retirement planning takes not only time … Read more
Ready To Ask 4 Retirement Questions? You need to have a serious talk with yourself before you think about retirement. This talk should focus on how much money you have and how much you will need to live the retirement lifestyle you envision. Retirement is a funny thing, it’s success depends on factors outside of … Read more
Focused Retirement Training When young lads train to be Boy Scouts they are taught to “always be ready”. Retirement training is very similar to Boy Scout training. One is wilderness training the other is financial training; both require you to “always be ready”. When you are a Boy Scout a stick and a rock can … Read more
Ask Yourself The Right Retirement Questions If you are like most people you want your path to retirement to be seamless, smooth and stress free. Envisioning the type of lifestyle you will have in retirement is the easy part of retirement planning. The more difficult part is deciding whether or not you are “ready” for … Read more
Will You Choose Your Retirement Option? If you do not have enough money when you are ready to retire you will have 3 options. One, you will have to keep working. Two, cut back on your lifestyle. Three, rely upon your loved ones for financial support. Once you are ready to retire will you honestly … Read more
What Are You Missing About Retirement? Isn’t it true that you work so that some day you can retire. Most people get that part. What many people miss is the time shortage. You only get so many years to work and save for retirement. If you fail to use your 40 working years to save … Read more
Understanding IRS Humor Is it possible that when you do the right thing with your financial life the IRS actually thinks you are cheating on your taxes? Could your financial efficiency raise a red flag for the IRS? Unfortunately it is possible because it’s such a rare occurrence. Why IRS Red Flag The best way … Read more
Social Security Warning Do You Believe Everything You Read? Warning, warning social security is failing. Your retirement planning will be a lot easier to manage if you just forget about social security. Plan for not having it then if it happens to still be in existence when you retire consider it bonus money. But … Read more
How To Save Money For Retirement You Ask? If you are interested in learning how to save money for retirement you must be keenly aware of the value of time and money. If you are asking the question you must have the interest to improve your current financial situation. There are many ways to approach … Read more