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ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT MORE BY SUPPLEMENTING YOUR INCOME

Guest post by: Janet Houghton

Article Overview: Being a Baby Boomer myself, and nearing retirement age, my thoughts have been turning to how I am going to survive retirement while enjoying life to the full, and doing at least some of the things I’ve been promising myself during all the years of slogging away in various offices. I wrote this article to help those of you in a similar situation, and covers very simply the whys and wherefores, and what to do about them.

ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT MORE BY SUPPLEMENTING YOUR INCOME

Being a Baby Boomer myself, and nearing retirement age, my thoughts have been turning to how I am going to survive retirement while enjoying life to the full, and doing at least some of the things I’ve been promising myself during all the years of slogging away in various offices. I wrote this article to help those of you in a similar situation, and covers very simply the whys and wherefores, and what to do about them. If I were to ask you when you want to retire and what you’d like to do when that time comes, I guess a great majority of people would answer “as soon as possible” to the question of when (I also realise that some men and women just can’t see themselves ever retiring). What you need to ask yourself is WHY you want to. It seems obvious I know, we spend most of our adult lives working, and look forward to taking life a little easier; maybe you would like to spend more time on your hobbies, be it golf, gardening or home brewing, or perhaps you’re looking forward to doing some travel – possibly seeing more of your home country, taking that cruise you’ve been promising yourself or catching up with friends who moved overseas. You may be looking forward to having time to do some courses and learn more about things you’re interested in, such as photography or computing, or perhaps you’d just to get to know your partner all over again. We all have different plans, but whatever they may be our aim is the same – to enjoy the latter years of our lives. However, the reality of retirement can be very different, especially with the economic downturn the world has just experienced. If you’re lucky, you have plenty of savings or superannuation put away for the “retirement and beyond” time. If, like me, you started work years before the superannuation guarantee was paid by employers, there’s not so much in the piggy bank. So although you may want to go travelling, or doing the renovations to your home, you just don’t have enough money to do those things – at least not in the style you’d always promised yourself. And for those of you who think you will never retire for whatever reason, just take time out to think of what you haven’t seen or done yet, and you may change your mind. No dreams can be achieved without some sort of action though, and YOU are the only one who can implement that. So the first thing to do is make a list of places to go, things to see, people to catch up with – after all, if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you ever get there! Then you need to work out your budget. This is where you may start thinking you need to supplement your income in some way, but without going back to work, how are you going to do this? Presumably since you’re reading this your computer skills are reasonably good, so do some searches online about using the internet to run a home business. You could also check out another article I wrote “Creating an income online – the Basics” which as the title says, gives you the basic knowledge of how to start making money from home. Using your laptop computer to create an income also gives you freedom to travel, as you just take it with you. Choose the right business, and you can create many streams of income, which in itself gives you more time and money to enjoy the things you want to do in retirement. The company I found, and which I talk more about in the previously mentioned article, gives you full training and backup on just how to go about doing this. Do take the time to check it out for yourself at the link in my bio, as there are many thousands of Get Rich Quick schemes on the internet. This particular company isn’t one of them, rather it takes you methodically through the various steps needed, using training calls from such speakers as Michael Force, Aaron Parkinson and Jimmy Davis. You can then apply the skills you learn here to market either your own business, or go with the product they recommend. Whatever you decide to do, I wish you a very happy and fulfilling retirement, and hope you have found this article both interesting and helpful in making some of your decisions. If you did enjoy, you can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook or find out more about me at my blog.

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Re: Balancing Your Man & Business - This is SOOOO real. . Keeping first things first has kept the balance. First God, then everything else. When I start the day with prayer and meditation, I prioritize better. There are certain things I must do each day in business but I remember to schedule quality time with my mate AND I'm attentive too. I noticed when I don't put God first, I struggle to keep a balance and wonder how we'll add kids to the paradigm. When I do it right EVERYTHING falls into place. Besides that, we BOTH really ENJOY business. We're both self-employed. I like this thread. This has been BIG discussion with us of late. We've both gotten MUCH better. It's no small thing either.


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