By Aida Mounkes

For all the big decisions in life you prepare for, Retirement is one of the biggest. You plan, you save, and then in the last month many let one thing change their mind. They will obsess over that one thing, no matter how small or minor that one thing is. Doubt begins to dictate when you will retire and may even postpone your retirement. Retirement is not the time for doubts.

Obsessing on That One Thing

In the last few months leading up to retirement you will go through a myriad of emotions. Joy, Guilt, trepidation… They will all run through head at some point in the last few months before you retire. Usually, during this time you will let one thing stress you out to no end. It could be your financial advisor said something weird, “How can I retire when I am not sure I trust the financial advisor that I have been with for years?” Or the grandchildren will be going into soccer, “How can I retire when the grandkids are going into sports?”

Staying on Course

It is important to write a list of all the reasons that you wanted to retire in the first place. There will always be reasons not to retire and if you let yourself obsess over them, you will never retire. How do you stay on course? You remember, all the reasons you wanted to retire in the first place. Maybe you wanted to be the one to go to every soccer game. If that is the case, you will probably have to be retired to do so.
Remember your retirement plan and everything you were going to do. Everyone has a retirement plan and it is best to retire to something, rather than retire from something. There are many things that people retire to do. Volunteering, going back to school, and even taking the part time job in something you have always been interested in, all help in staying on course toward retirement. The point is to have a plan to turn the doubt in your retirement into conviction. Don’t let anything steer your retirement off course. It is your retirement, not anyone else’s.

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