Coming up with a retirement plan

Time for a plan.

Well dont know where to start but its time to start putting a plan on paper.  What do I really want to happen when I retire?  Where am I going to live?  How much will I have to live on?

I could go on and on with the questions.  So this week, I will be trying to answer some of these questions and posting some links to the places I find some answers and hopefully you can gain a little more knowledge about coming up with a retirement plan.

A guy I communicated with through a hunting web site, is in the financial/retirement planning buisness. He says this:

  I actually don’t start with investing. There are 4 parts to financial planning…Estate planning, business planning, retirement planning and wealth accumulation(investing). Some clients don’t need help in all areas. I typically ask them a whole lot of questions and try to find the most pressing or important issues and deal with them first. I approach the investing aspect of it as well. There has to be a reason to make a particular investment and to me, it needs to coincide with a plan.

 

So now what do I need to do?  Estate planning, whats that?  Well I guess Im going to find out and the next few posting will list what I can come up with.