๐ข Read this only if you are 55 & above!
(I donโt want to trigger any acts of jealousy with my younger readers).
The Endowment Effect is Wrecking Your Retirement (prove me wrong)
Listen, saving is easy.ย
Stopping the habit is the real battle.
For decades, you have trained your brain to accumulate.
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You measure progress in amounts saved, not moments lived.
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You take comfort in watching numbers grow.
Then one day, youโre expected to do the opposite:
๐ฎ Spend.
๐ฎ Withdraw.
๐ฎ Deplete.
๐ซข Consume.
This feels unnatural.
Almost wrong.
Some people never adjust.
They continue living like theyโre one paycheck away from disaster.
They retire only on paper.
You can earn the money back.
You cannot earn the knee back.
You cannot un-age your grandchildren.
You cannot go back to the year your son needed the house deposit and give it to him then.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐๐ฟ๐๐น๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ท๐ผ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ปโ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐โ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐.
Retirement is not about how much money you have; itโs about how much time you have to do what you love.
And thatโs shorter than you think.*
MONEY HAS NO VALUE UNTIL YOU TURN IT INTO LIFE!
This hard truth triggers the following questions:
1.Does your financial plan tell you when to start using your money for life?
If it doesnโt, itโs unfinished.
2. What if the real risk isnโt running out of money โ but running out of life with money still sitting untouched?
3. What are you actually saving for?
4. If youโre 60, healthy, & financially secure, & youโre still living like youโre preparing for some future catastropheโฆ whatโs the plan?
5. Whatโs the endgame?
If those questions make you uncomfortable, good.
Thatโs the work.
Let’s start here:
โฉ If you died tomorrow with a “perfect” bank balance, whatโs the one experience youโd regret leaving on your bucket list?
Drop it in the comments. ๐๐๐
Join me on a mission to turn that paper wealth into life by front-loading your retirement.
Not your spending, necessarily. But your experiences. Your energy. Your ambition.
The first 10-12 years of retirement should be the richest, fullest, most intentional years of your life.
Not the most cautious.
Not the most careful.
The most alive.
* 12 years. Thatโs how long the average healthy 60-year-old has before their mobility, energy, & independence start to decline significantly. Not before they dieโฆ before life gets noticeably harder. Most of those later years arenโt healthy years.