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Have you ever wondered what impact a properly designed retirement makes to your quality of life and your plans for retirement? What is the difference between standard Retirement Planning and Retirement Designing? Find out more in this week's blog -

Retirement Planning vs Retirement Designing (4 minute read + video) – Retirement Navigator Retirement Planning def’n – determining if you have enough money for the rest of your life based on a annual spending amount. 

Close to 30 years of crafting customized retirement income plans has taught me a very valuable lesson - mental preparation for retirement is at least, if not more important, than financial preparation.

Not only will the process of mentally preparing for what you want to do, when you want to do it, who you want to do it with, and how big you plan to do it, not only significantly reduces the emotional stress of retirement, it also provides the clues to identifying where and when to rely on your many cash flow sources during your draw down years. Good choices lead to the ability of doing even more and worry even less.

Unfortunately, most retirement conversations are solely focused on preparing for the financial side of retirement. It has people chasing numbers - not desired life outcomes. Richard Quinn's article does a very good job of capturing important retirement lessons from a more balanced perspective.

10 retirement lessons from a retired retirement pro How to plan, save and keep calm.