The Retirement Myth

12/05/2025

When you want what you want, then you have to stick to the Process.

Process - What I need to do to get what I want. If you want something you must follow the process. Start with Step1, then Step2, then Step3 and keep going. I...

03/04/2025

Holistic, many interconnected parts, retirement - A teddy talk. Retirement is not just about one thing, like finances. It’s about many things, and we should ensure that we pay attention to them all.

02/04/2025

Finding my niche in writer’s cyberspace. Many years ago, if you wanted your writing to be read, you had to write a book. These days, you have to find your niche in the ocean of writers that inhabit cyberspace. I finally found mine.

19/03/2025

Diversify your income streams:
The days of surviving on one income stream are over, especially on retirement. In the old days, a term used to describe yesterday and all the days before that, most of us worked for one employer, or ourselves and received an income from one source. However, nowadays and all the days that follow, this is not necessarily the best strategy. Even in retirement we have to diversify and set up multiple ways of creating an income.

12/03/2025

Something you've always wanted to know ...

12/03/2025

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The Retirement Myth

12/03/2025

How to save money and eat better on retirement, bake your own bread. Retirement means saving money. Usually that means eating cheaper, more unhealthy, less natural food and less of it. What if you could eat much better for the same money and learn some new skills at the same time. I’ll teach you to bake a loaf of bread.

06/03/2025

There seems to be a scale so choose your retirement country wisely. 😀

06/03/2025

Ep8 - Retire, but watch the money through budgeting. Retirement means many things and one of the most important is to keep track of your money. If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it someone once said. In this episode we look at a budgeting tool in Excel that can help us track our finances.

05/03/2025

Ep9 - Retire, but budget for future events through a clever little savings account. Retirement means budgeting is more important than ever. Today I unpack an Excel spreadsheet that helps me keep track of a dozen or so mini-savings accounts so that future expenses can be saved for now.

28/02/2025

Ep7 - Retire soon so that you don’t have to do anything. That’s maybe the romantic or not-so-romantic myth that we have with the concept of retirement. Retirement is many things but doing nothing is not one of them, for long periods of time anyway. Today we have some fun and I get to show you the rich collection of birds we have in our garden.

28/02/2025

Ep6 - What can I do with my RA once I'm retired?