Beyond Retirement: Starting Your Endgame
Retirement is often seen as the finish line where you finally relax after a lifetime of work. However, Keep Your Life challenges this notion by suggesting that your last season of life should focus more on how you live, not just what you have. The traditional idea of retirement often revolves around saving money and securing an income. But what if the real goal is creating a life that reflects your values, relationships, and emotional well-being?
Planning for your endgame starts with evaluating the life you want to live in the future. It’s about more than securing a financial foundation—it’s about setting aside time for what truly matters. Whether it's reconnecting with family, spending time on hobbies, or even traveling, the goal is to create space for meaningful experiences.
Ask yourself: What do I want the final chapter of my life to look like? By starting the endgame now, you can ensure that your final years are spent on the things that bring joy and fulfillment, not just on the things you think you should have.
Conclusion:
Don’t leave it to chance. The choices you make today determine whether your future is filled with joy and purpose—or just a string of obligations you’re too tired to enjoy. Your endgame isn’t something you can push off indefinitely. It’s a process that starts now.
Take action today. Schedule a free call to explore how you can start crafting a life that aligns with your values and aspirations. Together, we’ll map out a plan that gives you the confidence and clarity to ensure your best years are still ahead. Click here to schedule your call now—because your future deserves more than a "wait-and-see" approach.
HOMESCHOOLING: Haven or Havoc?
Your child's school years are precious and fleeting.
Now could be your best time to step up where your school is letting your child down. Let this series of myth-busting short chapters encourage you.
2 Major Mistakes
Which one will you make?
Which of these 2 retirement mistakes are you making right now? It's impossible to entirely avoid both mistakes.
You won't know for sure which mistake will work out better for you until it's too late.
How to choose?
Finding the Will
(Part 1)
Part 1: Have the will to arrange for a smooth transition when you’re no longer around to answer questions
Have the will to arrange for a smooth transition when you’re no longer around to answer questions (Part 1)
Ensuring your children or other Loved Ones can readily access your important papers when you die entails a sound process versus one or two conversations. You must overcome aversion to the subject of death, procrastination of anything that is long-term, and the tendency to assume things will be fine. Family dynamics can be sweet, spicy, or dicey.
Finding the Will
(Part 2)
Part 2: Getting Organized
While the internet permits convenient access to accounts, policies, and stored documents, it presents a plethora of password management problems. which too many people avoid by succumbing to password laziness, such as:
- re-using passwords for multiple logins, or
- use simple, easy to remember passwords, or
- writing them on sticky notes placed on their monitor or under their keyboard, or
- keeping them in a spreadsheet on their computer, or
- letting their browser remember passwords for them
Embrace Your Clarence
Is Clarence your future?
Golden insight from a golden retriever.
Post-Pandemic W.E.L.L.ness
Working, Earning, Learning, and Launching to Thrive
Where life drastically changed forever two years ago, everyone adjusted to the best of their abilities.
Here are a few of the key adjustments--"pandemic pivots"--that sustained some and prospered others.
Prenuptial Adulting
Equip Them for Happily Ever After
“Mom, Dad, we’re getting married!"
“Wonderful, congratulations! Here’s what you both need to do first.”
Equipping newlyweds with essentials of responsibility leaves plenty of life yet to be discovered on their own. Adults understand that love isn’t oogly feelings; it’s a hard choice. It’s putting your commitments and your money where your mouth is.
Many of the following steps also apply to one’s turning 18 years old. Becoming engaged adds urgency and a deadline.
Rethinking Competing Funds for College and Retirement
We live in a time of skyrocketing inflation topping decades of unbridled higher education costs.
Is the tension between funding your retirement and funding (at least partially) your children’s college education keeping you up at night?
You’re not alone.
Married? Is Your Endgame 100% or Just 50%?
Are you single? That other 50% could be whoever is most important to you.
Multiple unforgiving players factor into your retirement and estate plans (collectively your “endgame”). Household names include the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Key decisions with these players are nearly impossible to reverse. Plus, if you qualify for a pension, how you activate it is another irreversible decision.
Are you more of a planner than your spouse? It’s all too common for one spouse to blindly trust the planning spouse. Countless endgame “plans” were created by 50% of a couple:
