Retire Y'all


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With stunning beaches, world-class golf, rich history, delicious cuisine, and no shortage of Southern Hospitality, South Carolina provides an incredible backdrop to live a fulfilled and abundant retirement. It also offers a unique set of challenges. Adam Curran, CFP®, believes each and every Palmetto State retiree ought to have a living, breathing, and dynamic retirement plan designed specifically for life in their ever-changing state. In his latest book, Retire Y'all: Your Guide to Retiring in South Carolina, he shoots straight on all matters retirement: changing tax law, market conditions, investment strategy, real estate, health care, and more! A good retirement plan gives retirees the permission and confidence to spend money to create meaningful experiences, without the fear of outliving living their savings. After all, no one wants to wind up the wealthiest person in the cemetery. Throughout the book, Adam drives home the message that the result of good financial planning means you can finally reap the rewards of years of grinding and saving and truly enjoy all of South Carolina has to offer. The book is short and sweet, written and designed to be read in just one or two sittings. With quick, digestible chapters you'll learn exactly what you need to know as you embark on this new chapter. Order your copy today!




The Power of a Plan


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Here's How To Create a Plan for a Worry-Free Retirement Doesn't it feel like Wall Street is broken? The Stock Market is more volatile than it's ever been before. In previous generations, retirees could buy bonds and fixed instruments and live comfortably off their interest. Not anymore. On top of a difficult investing environment, we have an inept government that has mismanaged the Social Security program while racking up a federal debt that is bound to result in increased taxation. The biggest concern of all might be the massive demographic shift which will put a strain on baby boomers getting quality medical care. Times have changed, and retiring and spending money with confidence has never been more challenging. That's where Adam Curran and his new book, The Power of a Plan, will help you develop and implement a plan for a worry-free retirement. Most people think they must suffer the volatility and stress of Wall Street in order to have a good retirement. Now you can benefit from the power of a plan and enjoy a worry-free retirement.




Work Optional


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A practical action guide for financial independence and early retirement from the popular Our Next Life blogger. In today's work culture, we're expected to hustle around the clock. But what if you could escape the traditional path and get on one that doesn't require working full-time until age 65? What if you could wake up every day without an alarm clock and do the things you love most? Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist lifestyle to live their dream life in Lake Tahoe, retiring early from high-stress careers. Now Tanja will help you map out a customized plan for freedom and make it easy to succeed, whether you're good at math and budgeting -- or not! Work Optional is more than just a financial plan: it's a plan for your whole life -- designed by you, not by an employer or clients. Tanja walks you through envisioning your dream life, accounting for variables such as health care and children, protecting yourself from recessions and future unknowns, and achieving a purpose-filled early retirement, semi-retirement, or career intermission with completely doable, non-penny-pinching steps. You can live a happier, more meaningful life, free from the daily grind. Regardless of where you are in your career, Work Optionalwill get you there.




Keys to a Successful Retirement


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You're finally retired! Learn how to make these the best years of your life. Congrats on your retirement! But now what will you do with all that free time? With Keys to a Successful Retirement, you'll discover everything you need to know to get your retired years off to a great start. Covering topics like finances, embracing your passions, and dealing with feelings of aimlessness, grief, and depression that may crop up, this in-depth guide to retired living answers all the burning questions you want to ask—as well as those you're afraid to. Take a complete look at your newfound freedom and explore what it really means to have a successful retirement. This in-depth guide includes: Essential basics—Make sure you're retirement ready with advice for managing your savings, dealing with healthcare, staying fit, and more. Handling tough times—Dig into the more challenging aspects of retirement, like how to best handle the effects it can have on your mental health. Be your own boss—Get guidance that teaches you how to decide what you want your retirement to be and how you can lean into the things that you love. An exciting new chapter of your life is starting—get a helping hand ensuring it's the best it can be!




Retire Inspired


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When you hear the word retirement, you probably don't imagine yourself scrambling to pay your bills in your golden years. But for too many Americans, that's the fate that awaits unless they take steps now to plan for the future. Whether you're twenty five and starting your first job or fifty five and watching the career clock start to wind down, today is the day to get serious about your retirement. In Retire Inspired, Chris Hogan teaches that retirement isn't an age; it's a financial number an amount you need to live the life in retirement that you've always dreamed of. With clear investing concepts and strategies, Chris will educate and empower you to make your own investing decisions, set reasonable expectations for your spouse and family, and build a dream team of experts to get you there. You don't have to retire broke, stressed, and working long after you want to. You can retire inspired!




Early Retirement Extreme


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"How to retire in your 20s and 30s (without winning the lottery). This book provides a robust strategy that makes it possible to stop working for money in less than a decade."--Page 4 of cover.




How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free


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Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.




Ready... Set... Retire!


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Most investors spend too much time trying to outguess the market and not enough time thinking about their long-term financial futures. That's why today's retirees (and soon-to-be retirees) need strategies, not stock tips. Nationally recognized Certified Financial Planner, radio talk-show personality, and author Raymond J. Lucia shows you little-known concepts that can fatten your savings and boost your standard of living in retirement. In an easy-to-understand and often humorous style, Lucia details how ideas such as non traded real estate investment trusts, 72(t) elections, and equity-indexed annuities can give you, the investor, a leg up on the path to retiring in comfort and safety. Lucia brings his 30 years of experience to bear in revealing how and when to tap your retirement plans, ways to use your home as a source of retirement dollars, and how to lower taxes on appreciated company stock. He'll also explain how investing in low-income housing tax credits can help you tax-wise even as you assist others. Filled with hands-on, in-depth insights and practical advice, this book will give you all the tools you need to win at the retirement game.




The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security


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A timely guide to overcoming the retirement challenges we all face The Great Recession has placed a wake-up call to America's baby boomers. Many have not saved enough for retirement and have not taken a hard look at how many post-work years they may need to finance. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security tackles the tough questions about retirement in the new post-crash economy. Page by page, it puts retirement in perspective by touching on important issues such as insuring against the risk of outliving your assets, recalibrating damaged retirement portfolios, managing the risk of health-care expenses in retirement, and career strategies for workers who are 50 years old and up. Reveals how to boost lifetime income through better planning, and working just a few additional years Offers advice on how to hire a financial advisor whose first loyalty is to you, not Wall Street Discusses why you should rethink housing in the wake of the real estate crash Offers detailed advice on career reinvention, the 50+ job market and midlife entrepreneurship Engaging and informative, this practical guide provides the strategies needed for a truly fulfilling and secure retirement.




Choose Your Retirement


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As seen in Woman's Day, US News & World Report, and Money Magazine Uncover the truth about planning for retirement! From financial advisors and pundits on television to colleagues and family members, everyone has something to say about retirement. But how much of it is true? Whether you're looking to move into a senior living community or travel the world, Choose Your Retirement shows you how to realistically prepare for the future you desire. Inside, you will find expert advice for choosing the best retirement path for you and your family as well as information on common myths like: -You will only need 80 percent of your current income in retirement -Medicare will cover all your health-care needs -Switching investments over to bonds is the safest retirement option -Social Security will run out in 2033, leaving millions without their promised benefits Filled with hundreds of facts about retiring, Choose Your Retirement helps you set attainable financial goals and plan for the retirement—and life—you've always wanted.