Refresh the soul — Friday the 26th — Change

The Biggest Change Is On Its Way.

If you have trouble accepting change, this will be a big problem for you.

Oh yeah, it’s coming. It has its own unique name:

Retirement

This is what everyone is supposed to look forward to in life. But what if you don’t like change? How’s this going to work for you?

Yes, it is possible to fail at retirement, and there are many reasons for it:

• Fail to plan
• Fail to plan financially
• Failure to create the life you want in retirement

Does your version of your retirement match your financial planning? You can also have the best-laid plans. Once there, you realize that’s too much change.

In the words of the songwriter Paul Simon, “you make a new plan . . . ” How many of us dreamed of becoming . . . something? What you wound up doing, your reality, was quite different. Retirement is like that.

My wife worked for a single company for thirty-five years. After retirement, we moved into our forever retirement home to find that it was not as expected. We spent two years making it ours, our dream. After we finished, within ten days, my wife (and the…