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Countdown to Retirement by Decade!

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

September 12, 2023 — Even if you are in your 30’s you have probably started the countdown to retirement. Probably with a mix of dread (will I be ready?) and anticipation (can’t wait to be free!). No matter what your current age, we’ve set up a retirement countdown in 10…

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Published on September 12, 2023
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Retirement 101: Online Preparation Course

Category: Medicare

March 3, 2021 — The problem with retirement is that there really isn’t a school for it. One day you are working, and the next day you could have twenty or even thirty years ahead of you with no plan as to how and where you are going to fill…

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Published on March 3, 2021
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Module 5: Overcoming Loneliness and Making Friends in Retirement

Category: Health and Wellness Issues

March 23, 2019 — This is the 5th module in our “Retirement Preparation 101” online course. The social aspects of retirement was one of most frequently requested topics for the series. Here is where you can see all of the Modules and all the Member suggestions for the course.

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Published on March 22, 2019
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Retirement Planning 101 – An Online Course: List of Modules

Category: Retirement 101 Course

February 28, 2019 — We thought it would be a good idea to have a central page where all of the various Modules in our Retirement Planning 101 Course would be listed. So here is that list. As new modules are produced we will include them here. When we produced…

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Published on February 27, 2019
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Retirement Preparation Quiz Results

Category: Retirement 101 Course

February 20, 2019 — By now you have hopefully taken our online “Retirement Preparation Quiz” and seen your score. If you haven’t, you can take it here. Please realize that the original passing score (70%) was chosen subjectively – your opinion of the state of your retirement preparation is…

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Published on February 19, 2019
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Retirement Quiz: Module 4

Category: Retirement 101 Course

Note: The 4th module in our Retirement 101 Online Retirement Preparation Course is a 20 Question Quiz February 20, 2019 — One of the wisest pieces of advice we have ever heard is to “know what you don’t know”. The adage applies perfectly to the world of retirement, where good planning can lead to a…

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Published on February 19, 2019
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What Kind of Retirement Community Is Right for You? Module 3

Category: Active adult communities

Note: This is the third module in our Retirement Planning 101 online training course. Here is a link to the entire retirement planning series. Updated Oct. 2023 (originally Feb. 2019) — If you are visiting this website the chances are you are thinking about living in some kind…

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Published on February 5, 2019
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Retirement 101, Module 2: Retiring on $1 Million (or a Lot Less):

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

Note: This is Module 2 in our Online Retirement Planning 101 Series. See end of article for full list. January 26, 2019 — The overwhelming #1 suggestion for our Retirement 101 series was “How to Retire on Less than $1 million” (smaller numbers were suggested to). Certainly most retirees…

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Published on January 25, 2019
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Your Suggestions: Retirement 101 Course

Category: Retirement 101 Course

January 23, 2019 —   We had so many wonderful suggestions (48 comments in all!) on the future direction of our Retirement 101 Course (Module 1) – thank you! They were so helpful that we felt it important to summarize them here. This is a list of all the current “Retirement…

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Published on January 22, 2019
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