The 4% retirement rule refers to a particular strategy that is used by retirees when they want to use their savings. The rule says that the best strategy when using your retirement savings is to withdraw about 4% of the savings every year, adjusting the sum for inflation every year. According to calculations made by …
Passive income is income you don’t have to work for day by day. It can come from stock dividends, blog income, affiliate sales, rental income or other forms. While passive income is something we would all ideally prepare to live off of in retirement, the reality of creating it during one’s traditional “working years” isn’t …
Building your dream career doesn’t have to be challenging. With a few little changes, it is possible to advance in your career and meet or exceed all your professional objectives. To help you onto the road to success, we are providing twelve ways to build a successful career. Self-Improvement The learning process should never end …
You probably read plenty of articles that tell you how to make money when you’re retired, or getting close to it. However, many of these options and routes mean having to work. Sometimes having a part-time job or consultancy role can be incredibly fun and rewarding. You get to keep on working with interesting people, …
The biggest purchase you will make in your life is a home and making the right decision will take some time and effort. Usually, you will have a number of options when it comes to housing in your area. Trying to fight your way through this terrain of houses can be a bit difficult and …
Are you interested in pursuing a new and exciting career? If the thought of staying in your dead end job is too much to bear, there really is a way out. You’ll have to put in the time and effort to study for your Nevada real estate degree. But this is no biggie if you can stick …
What does retirement mean to you? Does it bring up lots of questions and uncertainty? When did your parents or grandparents “retire?” Talking about the topic of retirement today is difficult because everyone has a different idea of retirement. I used to think I knew what it meant to retire, but my understanding is changing …
As I mentioned in my post detailing my alternate retirement plan, I don’t look at retirement the same way that most people do. Instead of building up a lump sum, I am creating income streams. One of these income streams, which is more long term, is real estate -more specifically residential properties. When I was talking …
I started this blog to keep track of my progress towards early retirement because I wanted a change. I had come to the realization that I found something that I liked: blogging, or more generally, running my own business. Many people have critiqued my early retirement plan as not being true retirement. If they are talking about stage 2 of my early …
Early retirement – the dream of many, the accomplishment of few. So many people long for early retirement, yet few actually accomplish their goal. What is it that prevents people from obtaining early retirement? If you follow my blog, you will come to find out that I am actively pursuing early retirement. It is not just some …