Retirement Starts Today Radio

As you prepare yourself for retirement, you probably have a vision of your retired self traveling, spending more time on your hobbies, or with loved ones. Retirement will give you time for all that and more. I read an article recently that describes the 6 phases of retirement. I had never defined it that way before, but this was an interesting way to delineate a natural progression of this time period. Press play to learn what these 6 phases are.  Outline of This Episode [1:42] There are 6 identifiable phases in retirement [4:25] If you retire mid-year, is it better to reduce pretax and post-tax deductions? [7:06] What should we do if our RMD rules violate our safe spending rules? [11:04] What about using the 4% rule? The natural progression of retirement Have you ever thought about the natural phases of retirement? This week’s retirement headline is written by Andy Millard from AndyTheAdvisor.com. In the article, Andy mentions that much like the 5 stages of grief, retirement can also be broken into 6 ident