In retirement, follow again what makes you human. Re-discover what you lost before you were a slave to the clock.
As originally appeared in MarketWatch’s Retirement Weekly.
What’s been my greatest advice to people once they seriously consider retirement?
No it’s not create a budget.
It’s watch the movie “Castaway.”
Take notes. Life is about to get bumpy.
Money is at the bottom of the life list for surprises. There are enough academic studies that prove how people with formal retirement planning are more successful than those who don’t plan.
No, there’s another storm front to weather.
In the 2000 film Tom Hanks portrays a frenetic FedEx systems employee obsessed with time and productivity. During a Christmas evening flight to Malaysia, his delivery plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean. He is violently tossed and cast to a remote island where he remains trapped and surrounded by cascading ocean currents. Over four years, while loved ones consider him lost (they had a funeral), and the love of his life marries and…
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Random Thoughts of a Money Muse 
“Find what you lost.” I’m looking forward to the excavation.