You can actually practice this method before you retire. Did you know that? Here's how. Get in your car, and you can actually start it. But don't put it in reverse or drive because you don't know where you are going! How about this? This time, get in your car and drive to the store. Grab a cart at the entrance but stop... you have no goal, no list to buy things. You see, not having some type of retirement goal assures failure. Someone said a person who sails without a destination is certain to get there.
I.N.G. Retirement Plan (Imagine No Goals): The Plan With a Goal
Inherent to everyone's walk in life is ING retirement. That doesn't mean you turn into a vegetable and stay in your house. That means for most folks that you step out of your life-long vocation into another season of life. Perhaps even a season that is just as productive or fulfilling as your first. Priorities do change.
So the fact that some type of retirement is in the works, you do have some choices: Do Nothing- well that is a choice. You can stand in front of a moving car and do nothing and I can assure you something WILL happen. Or you can step to the side and let the emergency pass you by. Which means you do have a choice: do nothing or do something. Right?
If your retirement or pension sustains your lifestyle doing nothing here is OK. Meaning, you are already on the side of the road and you don't have to worry about those zooming cars going by. You have prepared well. Some may recall the story of the little Ant that prepared its place during the harvest so when the lean times came there was still something to eat. That means that little Ant worked hard while there was time to work; when it was able to work. And when the Ant quit working, there was still food available.
I.N.G. Retirement Plan (Imagine No Goals): The Plan With a Vision
Having a vision moves you beyond the goal. That means the goal is a step in a long series of steps that point you in the direction of a vision. So from the point of one still working and looking to the future of retirement, is it your goal to retire and just sit around or is it your vision to retire, help others where you can, spend time with your family and take vacations when you want to? You see the difference?
A very good friend of mine, Michael Pink said this: "Vision provides clarity. Clarity allows focus. Focus gives certainty. Certainty encourages action. Action produces results. Results are how we are measured. Measurement shows where to improve."
So here is your measurement. Compare your vision of retirement- that is all the plans you have for retirement to your projected retirement income. Is there enough?
I.N.G. Retirement Plan (Imagine No Goals): The Plan With a Goal
Inherent to everyone's walk in life is ING retirement. That doesn't mean you turn into a vegetable and stay in your house. That means for most folks that you step out of your life-long vocation into another season of life. Perhaps even a season that is just as productive or fulfilling as your first. Priorities do change.
So the fact that some type of retirement is in the works, you do have some choices: Do Nothing- well that is a choice. You can stand in front of a moving car and do nothing and I can assure you something WILL happen. Or you can step to the side and let the emergency pass you by. Which means you do have a choice: do nothing or do something. Right?
If your retirement or pension sustains your lifestyle doing nothing here is OK. Meaning, you are already on the side of the road and you don't have to worry about those zooming cars going by. You have prepared well. Some may recall the story of the little Ant that prepared its place during the harvest so when the lean times came there was still something to eat. That means that little Ant worked hard while there was time to work; when it was able to work. And when the Ant quit working, there was still food available.
I.N.G. Retirement Plan (Imagine No Goals): The Plan With a Vision
Having a vision moves you beyond the goal. That means the goal is a step in a long series of steps that point you in the direction of a vision. So from the point of one still working and looking to the future of retirement, is it your goal to retire and just sit around or is it your vision to retire, help others where you can, spend time with your family and take vacations when you want to? You see the difference?
A very good friend of mine, Michael Pink said this: "Vision provides clarity. Clarity allows focus. Focus gives certainty. Certainty encourages action. Action produces results. Results are how we are measured. Measurement shows where to improve."
So here is your measurement. Compare your vision of retirement- that is all the plans you have for retirement to your projected retirement income. Is there enough?