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Early Retirement Guide

How To Retire Earlier Than Old, Because There's More To Life Than Work!

The key to a financially secure early retirement is good planning. Even though that's an obvious truth, surprisingly few people follow through on the obvious.

  • According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute fewer than half of working Americans have even bothered to calculate how much money they need for a secure retirement - let alone an early retirement.
  • According to the Retirement Confidence Survey only about a third of workers aged 45-54 (early retirement age) have saved at least $100,000 - let alone enough to retire on.

Clearly, the path to a secure early retirement is "the road less traveled".

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  • How much money do you need?
  • What special concerns must early retiree's overcome?
  • How can you succeed when so many others fail?

The answers to these and many more early retirement planning questions are contained in the articles below:

  • Twelve Tips To Systematically Build Your Wealth For Early Retirement: How to retire early and wealthy.
  • Leverage - How to Fast-Track Your Financial Goals: If you aren’t using leverage analysis then you’re working harder than you should, to earn less than you could. Here's a complete leverage system to fast...
  • How Much Do I Need To Retire? Are you financially ready for early retirement? What's the magic number for retirement savings and how much can you afford to spend? How do you calculate it? Is it an accurate estimate? Find out here...
  • Early Retirement Planning - What You Must Know: If retiring early is on your radar screen then here are six strategies worth paying attention to.
  • 5 Essential Questions For Pre-Retirement Planning: Discover the "what", "where", "when", and "how much" of pre-retirement planning so that you can prepare for a successful transition into retirement.
  • Are You Making This Early Retirement Mistake? It may be time to change your mind about early retirement. It's a seductive facade that is supposed to be about freedom and success, but my experience shows it's usually an avoidance mechanism that cleverly hides a more important issue...
  • 27 Retirement Savings Catch-Up Strategies For Late Starters: If early retirement wasn't fully expected so that your nest egg isn't ready then this article can help you catch-up fast.
  • Will You Retire Early And Wealthy? Take This Test... Find out if you are on schedule to retire early and wealthy or destined for financial mediocrity, and learn how you can make your wealth grow faster.

Cover for How Much Money Do I Need to Retire bookIn my book, How Much Money Do I Need to Retire?, you'll discover how retirement really works before it's too late.

"This book is the best I've seen on how to navigate the retirement savings questions." (Forbes)

This book takes you beyond the scientific facade of modern retirement planning. You'll learn the 5 critical assumptions that can destroy your financial security, how to reduce the amount you need to retire by as much as $600,000, 3 strategies you can use to maximize spending today while protecting for the future, and how to calculate the amount of money you really need to retire on the first try - without software, online calculators, or being a math genius.

Buy the book today so you can retire with confidence: Amazon | iBooks | B&N | Kobo

Plan your early retirement with these educational articles, resources, calculators, and tools. A complete guide, because there's more to life than work...

To ensure a financially secure early retirement you must make the right choices years in advance. Use these articles to educate yourself on the principles that work so that you know how to do it right the first time.

Below you’ll find a listing of our most recent articles about early retirement planning with additional strategies and information so you can take the next step...

How Anyone Can Retire Early In 10 Years (Or Less!)

How Anyone Can Retire In 10 Years (Or Less!)

Surprisingly, it’s not that hard. It doesn’t require hitting the lottery or inheriting a windfall from ol’ Aunt Myrtle. Similarly, you don’t have to become a brilliant investor or possess any unusual skill. After all, the title to this post claimed “anyone” can do it so the strategy has to be repeatable and predictable. We’re talking science – not random luck. Here’s how you do it…

Leverage – How To Fast-Track Your Financial Goals

Photo of money balancing on a wooden block depicting the concept of leverage with text overlay Leverage How to Fast-Track Your Financial Goals

Nobody gets rich without leverage. If you aren’t employing leverage in your business and wealth plans, it means you’re compromising the speed, time, and work effort necessary to reach each level of success. Leverage isn’t difficult to master; it’s something you can implement right away and then reap the benefits for years to come. It’s time for you to stop working harder than you should to earn less than you could. Discover how to accelerate your financial growth in this article…

FM 025: FIRE Case Study with Chris Mamula

FM 25 - FIRE Case Study with Chris Mamula

Get FIRE! Discover Chris Mamula’s failures and wins to achieve financial independence early retirement in just 5 years. It’s easier than you think.

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5 Ways To Reduce How Much You Need To Save For Retirement By $300,000 (or More!)

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If your retirement looms large, but your nest egg doesn’t, then this article can help. You’ll discover 5 simple strategies to reduce the amount of savings you need in retirement by $300,000… or more! Surprisingly, it’s much easier to reduce how much you need to save than it is to increase your savings. This is a frequently overlooked strategy that can allow you to reach your financial goals faster, and with greater security…

How To Retire Early: 6 Essential Strategies You Must Know…

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The goal of retiring early means you have less time to accumulate assets and more time to live off them. Traditional methods for building wealth that work for others won’t work for you. In this article, you’ll discover the 3 paths you can take to accelerate you asset growth, 3 simple rules to create perpetual income streams, and how you can beat the inflation enemy…

12 Tips To Build Wealth For Early Retirement

Build wealth easily by following these two simple guidelines.

Building wealth for a secure, early retirement is actually very simple – in theory. It requires just three easy-to-understand principles. However, few people ever retire early because it has little to do with understanding these principles, and everything to do with taking effective action. Discover how you can overcome the two hurdles that block action so you can achieve breakthrough results…

FM 015: Early Financial Independence With Luke Landes

Early financial independence with Luke Landes

Sure, you want early financial independence. But how do you achieve it? What are the necessary action steps to reach the goal, and how can you expect your life to change afterward? Surprisingly, it doesn’t work like most people think. In this latest addition to our podcast series, Luke Landes shares how he achieved freedom from day-to-day financial worries at such an early age, and what his life experience has been like since reaching the goal. Surprisingly, it’s not what most people would expect…

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FM 014: Life Reimagined and The New Retirement with Richard Leider

Life Reimagined Book Author Richard Leider

The “New Retirement” is gathering momentum and catching major media attention. In fact, no less than AARP has gotten behind the initiative with a new book titled “Life Reimagined” by Richard Leider. If you have any interest in retiring with financial security and enjoying a happy life (who doesn’t?) then this interview is a must listen. Richard and I reveal new insights to help you…

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FM 012: The New Retirement – A Little-Known Path To Fulfillment with Ken Turek

The New Retirement with Ken Turek

If you think retirement is about old age and endless rounds of golf then think again. Increasing longevity has changed all the old rules for retirement planning. When you understand the new rules you can retire younger with less money, greater financial security, and greater life fulfillment. This isn’t your father’s or grandfather’s retirement. It is a whole new definition of what it means to “retire” and explains how you can completely redesign your life for fulfillment far earlier than you ever imagined possible…

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FM 004: Early Retirement Success Story with Doug Nordman

Early Retirement Success Story with Doug Nordman

Early retirement is simple. Discover how to do it with confidence and security in this interview with Doug Nordman illustrating the essential principles nearly everyone must follow. Doug’s story is a great example because his path was unusual, but the principles he followed are not. They are timeless and essential to achieving the goal. Discover how…

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