Creating a retirement budget is key to the enjoyment of your retirement. It’s a roadmap to your retirement goals and to ticking off some bucket list items. Why creating a budget is important Budgeting sounds so boring doesn’t it? Keeping receipts, entering them into a spreadsheet …..yawn. At Retiring not Shy! we are very aware […]
Becoming grey nomads is a popular retirement activity, but was it for us we wondered? A guest post by Estelle from What’s on Watsons. We retired in 2016. For us as a couple, retirement has been a massive period of change. Not only have we retired we have closed a business, sold our family home, […]
David is 58 years old and Gill 48. It is just on two and a half years since David retired as a management professional, or as he describes it, started his ‘gap decade’. Gill continues to work full-time in a busy senior management role. David and Gill are tertiary educated and describe themselves as socially […]
The Wheel of Life is the perfect tool for planning your retirement. Answer the questions, ‘How is my life now?’ and ‘How do I want to be?’ and you are on your way. The Wheel is a great tool for both evaluating your current level of satisfaction with life and for visioning how you wish […]
Your retirement lifestyle planning may start with financial planning, but having a happy retirement needs a much more holistic approach. It is also an ongoing process which you will refine over time. Why you need more than a financial planner for developing a holistic retirement plan We started planning the details of our retirement over […]
