One Simple Step To Help You Plan For Your Retirement
episodePreviously titled “Ep 156 | What to Focus on in Retirement Planning Right Now” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
Wealthy After 40: Retirement Planning and Budgeting for Gen X
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Why does retirement planning feel overwhelming and urgent?
When you think about retirement, does it ever feel like everything is urgent? Pay off debt, save more, catch up for retirement, cover today's bills? No wonder it feels overwhelming. The truth is, trying to tackle everything keeps you stuck. What if you only needed to focus on one priority to start building your momentum? In today's episode, I'm going to show you how to determine your best next step so you can stop spinning your wheels and start moving forward to retirement. Welcome to the Wealthy After 40 podcast, the show for Gen X women and couples who are ready to ditch financial stress and feel confident about retirement. I'm your host, Dailene Higgins, financial and retirement coach, helping Gen Xers master their money and create a personalized retirement plan so they can stop spinning their wheels and step boldly into their dream retirement.
If you're feeling behind, don't worry. Continue listening to this podcast as well as be sure to grab your free guide, Five Must Do Steps to Start Retirement Planning Now at elevatefinances.us backslash must do. And remember, let's make retirement possible together. When you think about retirement, and maybe you're, you know, researching, searching, Googling, whatever, like, what should I do? What are the steps I need to take? What are the things I need to check off? And before I continue on, hopefully you've grabbed my retirement ready checklist.
What are the common competing money priorities people face (debt, savings, retirement)?
If not, you can find that at elevatefinances.u backslash checklist. And it'll give you those steps, but hopefully you'll stay listening to this or come back after you've done that. But as you're doing that, you find that you're not sure what the best step is for you to take. And you feel overwhelmed. And honestly, you feel like everything on that list is important and needs to be done today. It's like so urgent, everything on there, because you might be thinking you're starting late, that you're behind, whatever those feelings are. And honestly, trying to tackle more than one thing is not going to be supportive. You're not going to find support. that you're making any progress. So what should you do?
That's what I'm going to help you solve today in this episode. Specifically, how do you know your best next step in retirement planning? And honestly, this will help you determine the first step, the second step, and so on and so forth. So last episode, I shared about choosing your priorities with money. If you missed that episode, be sure to listen to that. It will also support you in defining your direction. A little bit different than this, but hopefully kind of, it's going to cover what I will later talk about as rules and things like that. So that will make sense. So be sure to go back and listen to that if you have not. So you fill, looking at your list, whether it's a list I gave you or the list you found somewhere else or just the things you know you need to do, and you fill the poll of several priorities.
I need to pay off debt. I need to build my savings. I need to catch up on retirement savings. Do you remember those years where money was tight and we weren't contributing at all? Everybody's been there. Everybody's done it. And right now, you may be shuffling your money to savings. You're like, okay, I've got to save. But then you look at your debt and you think, well, I've got to get this paid down. You kind of pull back and go to doing that. And then you experience a tight month and you're like, oh, that was a lot of expenses. Am I doing things in the right order? How can I make progress in any of these areas? Ultimately, you do know that you want to retire. But how do these, quote, priorities fit together, come together, support you in achieving that?
First off, there is no right order. Somebody can dispute me all they want, but I will tell you there is no right order. Being stuck in that, that there is or that there's a magic wand that's going to fix it will only keep you, you know, spending more time looking for that, spiraling, all of those things. What do you need to do?
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