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The Retirement Newsletter: Making plans….
Welcome
Welcome to week -133 — yep, still counting down*.
And a big welcome to the first subscriber to this newsletter. Thank you for subscribing, and please tell your friends about the newsletter.
This week, I will say a little more about planning and how you might want to set up your plans for tracking your journey towards retirement.
Planning
A busy old week in the day job. And that is always the problem. The day job getting in the way of planning for retirement.
So, how did I go about making my plans?
Well, I like lists. I like ticking things off lists. So, for me, it was natural to create a series of lists, but for a thing as big as retirement, you need many lists. I needed lists of lists.
First, as discussed in the last newsletter, I needed a date to retire — something for which to aim. And for me, a significant deciding factor, besides wanting a change of career, was money — my pension pot.
Now, thanks to one of my earlier retirement plans — the one that had failed — I had discovered, through playing around with the ‘pension pot prediction tool’ on my pension provider’s website, that if I retired…
