6 Retirement Planning Steps to Make Before It’s Too Late
Retirement planning – if you shudder hearing these words, don’t. While it’s stressful to think about this, if you take care of the basic steps starting from today, you stand a great chance to retire earlier and also enjoy your golden years. Don’t rely on anyone to care for you, you can set yourself for retirement. In most countries the state pension plans are almost bankrupt or not looking great anyway. We both know that the baby-boomers generation won’t happen to soon anymore, as most of us have no kids at all or have 1-2 the most. This means that, when we’ll grow old enough to retire, there will be fewer young people to pay taxes for our pensions. Hence the reason why we should all consider the state pension to be amazing and wonderful, if we get any, but don’t expect anything from it anyway. We’ll get older, there’s nothing to do about this, so, if we cannot avoid retirement, we should get financially ready for it. Here are 6 steps to consider for your retirement planning 1. Curb your spending and get control over your money If you routinely overspend and have absolutely no idea about where your money goes, I have bad news for you – when you retire, you’ll get into bigger troubles than now. At least today you have your salary, most likely, imagine your reckless spending with a fraction of what you earn today. Not pretty at all, right? Start budgeting, even if it’s a very simple system, like we already showed you on Pftoday, and see if you can start saving some money this way. Having an emergency fund ready will also make it easier for you to further achieve your financial goals. 2. Pay off debt as much as possible If you […]