Tag: #retiregradually
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Phased Retirement: What are you Chasing?
A recent Wall Street Journal article (1) delved into the interesting concept of why we’re so busy and what we’re each chasing that keeps us so frenetic. According to one person’s opinion in the article, in Italy the professional class are chasing a better tan, showing where they’ve been on vacation, and portraying how much…
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Retirement Plan = Career Plan
As you think ahead and plan for your retirement or you begin a phased retirement, you could improve your preparation by looking back at how you planned and managed your career. Your career didn’t just happen. It required thoughtful planning and careful consideration of moves to different roles or even different companies. As your career…
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Phased Retirement: Boomerang Boomers
The percentage of retirees who return to the workforce varies depending on the specific study, but it can be significant. For example, according to a 2020 survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, approximately 57% of American workers expect to continue working in some capacity after they retire. Another survey conducted by the Federal…
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Retirement: Location, Location, Location
It’s often a real estate motto for determining the best housing, but location is often a key decision point for where to spend your retirement as well. For the ultimate flexibility, remote work allows those who are ‘ratcheting back’ their workloads to explore new areas. Many cities in the United States offer a great environment…
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Retirement – Go Find your Magic
I’ve been writing about retirement – specifically a phased approach to retirement – for quite a while. Even though I think of this as a somewhat novel approach, compared to a traditional ‘retirement day,’ I’d still been thinking of it as happening at the end of a long-ish career where you or I slowly exit…
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Living in Uncertain Times
Recently I’ve seen a lot published about the challenges we’re facing as we live “…in these uncertain times.” But here’s the thing; they’re always uncertain times. Yes, we’ve experienced a pandemic that forced us all into a ‘new normal.’ There’s a war in Ukraine, unsettling economic times…and the list goes on. But no one ever…
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Don’t Ruin Your Average
I’ve seen several posts lately where the author encourages us to “Show up every day!” Similar refrains can be worded like, “No matter what your day looks like, get up, dress up and show up.” And I’m no Woody Allen fan, but he got a lot of mileage out of his quote that, “80% of…
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Phased Retirement: Tap the Historians
And everyone in your life – including you – is a historian. In terms of thinking about and preparing for your eventual retirement it’s helpful to read and do research. It’s helpful to work with professionals to plan for your financial needs, insurance, etc. All of that is certainly prudent. But you have riches all…
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Phased Retirement: Throwback Thursday
I started writing about phased retirement over one year ago. One of my first posts was on LinkedIn and was titled, “Retire Slowly: Land the Plane.” I hadn’t yet surveyed people – both informally and on platforms like LinkedIn – for what the best term to describe a gradual retirement might be. ‘Phased Retirement’ was…
Retire by Degrees 