By WayneM on July 30, 2008
Think about this. It would be nice to be that guy or gal sitting on the beach of your choice with not a care in the world and all the money you would ever need in the world to enjoy life to the fullest. Well, you can have that dream soon if you get into [...]
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By WayneM on July 12, 2008
So when you get to that phase of life where your children are grown up and it is not just you and your spouse, now you can focus on trips that are for just you two going places you to go and doing things you want to do. So if you feel that you will [...]
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By WayneM on March 10, 2008
This is not a given for every employee. It used to be in the generation that was in the workplace of the nineteen fifties and sixties that staying with a company for thirty or more years and retiring with full benefits was the norm. That is not the norm any more. We cannot just blame [...]
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By WayneM on March 3, 2008
But if those disasters do happen, you will be very glad you had insurance. But there is one big life event that is coming that you want to do all you can to prepare for financially and that is old age and retirement. While there is no old age insurance, you will find as you [...]
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By WayneM on March 2, 2008
If you desire to make serious money in the stock or commodity markets, keep this one thing in mind. In order for you to be consistently successful as a trader, you have to anticipate the market and never follow it. If you can learn how to anticipate future trends, you can become rich fairly easy. [...]
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By WayneM on March 2, 2008
And with appreciation, that home may be worth twice or three times what you paid for it and you have all the equity from those years of house payments. Therefore, in addition to the joy you have had living in that house and raising your family there, that house is also can be a big [...]
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By WayneM on March 2, 2008
Perhaps it is looking toward the future in terms of insurance, planning for college and other issues such as this also gets your mind moving on how you will be ready when retirement gets here. But if we were able to step back above our lives, the best time to start preparing for retirement is [...]
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By WayneM on March 2, 2008
The basic level of retirement planning is to sign up for your 401k at work, support legislation to keep Social Security intact, buy some life insurance and let it go at that. This system will work so there is reason to call this bad retirement planning. After all, if you began preparing for retirement in [...]
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By WayneM on March 2, 2008
And it is true that a big part of being ready to retire involves being ready financially to be able to step out of the work world and start to take life easier. But just as life is not just about making money, retirement is about so much more than having the money not to [...]
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By WayneM on March 1, 2008
But short of the worst case scenario of an early demise, everyone is going to get old and its far better to do so with a plan then to let it sneak up on you. This is something you do not want to screw up. Is it possible to screw up retirement planning? Of course [...]
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