Retirement Planning - Quiz Are You Ready for the Option Years?
The answers to the following questions will make up a great deal of
the content of the upcoming retirement planning workshop. Test yourself!
YES
NO
How much money it will take for you
to live for 30 more years in the style to which you have grown accustomed
(adjusted to a 6% inflation rate?)
Do you know what your assured sources of income will be after retiring?
Do you know what your next 2- 3 full or part-time careers will be over the next 40 years?
Do you know how to increase your health and vigor as you get older?
Do you know how to blend traditional western medical care with the best alternative care methods in order to treat future minor and major illnesses in the best way possible?
Do you know how to work your way around your current and retirement health care systems to ensure you get the very best care available?
Do you know how you will help finance the health and well being of your parent(s), if still living, for the remainder of their lives?
Do you know how you will pay for your own long-term care as you live into your 80's or 90's, or even 100's?
Do you know what kind of housing you will want to live in for the remainder of your life?
Do you know what steps you can take now to ensure that your estate will be settled as you wish?
Do you know how to say "no" to your children and grandchildren regarding requests for money, babysitting, etc.?
Do you know what steps you can take now to ensure that your affairs will be handled equitably should you become physically or mentally incapacitated?
Do you know how to cope with becoming a mid-life orphan (upon the death of your parents)?
Do you know if your self-concept is strong enough to cope with the many transitions of mid-life such as retirement, widowhood, a sudden bout of bad health, divorce (yours or your children's), loss of job or of a close family member, etc.?
Do you know what to do when a close family member dies, such as make funeral arrangements, deal with the IRS, Social Security department, banks, insurance companies, employee benefits departments, attorneys and stock brokers, and do you know where vital documents are located?
Do you know how to create fun in your life now and in your future?
Do you know what to do to make the second half of your life twice as interesting as the first half?
Do you know how to use the Web for everything from socializing and bargain shopping to financial and healthcare research?
Do you know how you are going to enrich the quality of life in your local community and in turn incredibly enrich your own life?
Do you know how you are going to express your "elder wisdom" in your family, friendships and community?