The Best Time to Plan for Your Retirement Is Right Now
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Wealthy After 40: Retirement Planning and Budgeting for Gen X
18 min
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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, money coach and retirement strategist, to help you gain clarity and confidence with your money by creating a spending plan that aligns with your financial goals and dreams so you can spend intentionally, save consistently, and feel at peace about your future. Join me every week to understand your money, simplify your decisions, and take intentional steps toward the life you want. Today's episode, we are diving into why do individuals want to keep putting off retirement planning?
Why do people procrastinate on retirement planning and feel it's intangible?
I hear this from a lot of people who are in their mid 40s, late 40s. And it just saddens me that there's not more of an urgency. And while it doesn't need to be an urgency thing, it is important that we start planning for our retirement. And as I've said here more than one time, if you've been a longtime listener, is it's not just all about savings. If you're in your 20s or 30s and happen to be listening to my podcast, welcome. And for you, yes, you've got to save. You've got to build that. You've got to keep going. You can also jump into these steps earlier. And this is how people retire early. But that's not the topic that I want to really cover today. But I want to talk more about why people are delaying.
Why I hear from people I'm talking to that they're sharing their thoughts, their ideas with me. And they're like, I've got time. I'll worry about it later. I've got this going on. And putting off retirement planning with managing your own finances is I get why it's easy because retirement maybe is not tangible. You're not clear on what you want. And with the information out there, all you're really told is just to save. The other thing I hear is, am I saving enough? Am I on track? Am I going to be there? Because the information out there is lacking.
Why is it important to start retirement planning right now even if you're 45–55?
And it's just save this amount. Just save this amount. And that amount is blanketed for everybody. We're going to get into all of those details later. But just know that I understand why you want to keep putting it off. But this episode is going to show you why and how that planning for retirement today is very important. So as you listen to every episode on this podcast, just know that it will support your understanding of the retirement journey. And it's going to help you learn how to be better with your money so that your retirement journey is easier. Because guess what? Even though we retire, we still have to manage our money. We still have to budget. We still have to track. So we want to find a way that makes that easy because we want to enjoy retirement in multiple ways.
And secondly, if you're stuck and not sure how to start your retirement planning, I would love to have you join my Accelerate Your Retirement Challenge inside my new Facebook group community for Gen Xers called Retirement Ready Hub. The link is down in the show notes. You can also search that. Come find me. And we will be covering in that challenge the first three steps in retirement planning. This will give you a good overview, a good start, a good understanding of what things mean from here. And just know that at that point, right from this point, every little step matters and you don't need to make leaps or bounds. It's not about finding that one thing that is going to solve everything. That's instant gratification.
And in the health and wealth journeys, that's just not going to happen. We've got to put in the work. We've got to find instant gratification in other ways. So come join that challenge. If this is you're listening to this after June 4th, it's still over there. Come join us and take those first three steps. And then as I go live every Friday, I subject to change, then you'll learn some more information, more topics. Those topics are different than what you'll hear on the podcast. So today I want to share like, why is now the time to figure this out? Why should you do this now? Say you're 45 and you're like, I've got plenty of time.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–0:58
2
Why do people procrastinate on retirement planning and feel it's intangible?
0:58–2:27
3
Why is it important to start retirement planning right now even if you're 45–55?
2:27–5:51
4
What personal wake-up story illustrates the impact of getting serious about retirement early?
5:51–18:15
Speakers
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