By Mikael
Since this blog is about wanting to retire early and rich I am naturally doing some market research to find out what is driving people to search for ways or solutions to stop working on their job.
Within the last 12 month (if I am not mistaken) Google has grown a lot smarter and are now helping us search based on what other people have searched for. Because of this we can see at what age people want to retire. Not when they are actually going to achieve it but just what they are searching for.
So as you can see from this picture people have goals and wishes of wanting to retire with 5 year intervals (except for the magic number of 21 and the normal retiree age of 62 and 65).
What this tells us is that many young people are full of hope an... Read more
By Mikael
Some of you are reading the headline and might be saying to yourself that it can’t be that important to know why you want to retire rich and/or early as long as it happens.
I have to give you that if it was as easy as it sounds then I wouldn’t want to argue with you. Unfortunately it has been proven time and time again that nothing “just happens” and rarely does anything good come from very little effort.
This does however not translate into it being neither hard nor impossible to quit your job and retire in an early age, but if you have no idea why it is that you want that retirement in the first place then odds are that you will not get it.
Why the WHY Cannot Be Negative
As with most things we want in life, being able to say to y... Read more
By Mikael
If you are looking forward to the time where you’re going to retire then you might be one of the many people that have been asking themselves how much money they would need to be able to retire early. I’ve found that a lot of people seem to find the age of 55 years old to be a great age to retire which I can only agree with. The sooner you’re able to retire or become financially free the better if you ask me.
But in order to be able to retire at 55 you will need to know if you can afford to retire. You might have your 401k plan in place but for most people that might not be enough to retire on and if that is all you have then things might not be as great as you would want them to be.
So how do you find out if you have enough money to... Read more