Retirement Readiness: A Guide to Creating Your Vision, Knowing Your Position, and Preparing For Your Future - Softcover

Mike Bonacorsi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193180771X ISBN 13: 9781931807715

Publisher: MIKE BONACORSI, 2008

Synopsis

This interactive guide uses anecdotes, and end of chapter questions, to jumpstart the process of retirement visioning and create focus for the dreams/goals of retirement. It's a precursor to, and tool for, successful retirement financial planning. Bonacorsi draws on his 20+ years as a Certified Financial Planner, to offer sound financial advice. He uses a humorous style to bring general interest readers in touch with this sensitive subject, helping them make progress in retirement planning.

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About the Author

MIKE BONACORSI is a Certified Financial Planner, author, and public speaker. He is a current member of the Financial Planning Association. His unique style of combining sound financial advice with humor is effective with clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The Mike Bonacorsi Show, a radio program. He leads an active lifestyle in Nashua, New Hampshire.

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See Your Future >> >> Dream a Little Dream >> >> It's 5:45 in the morning and Tom and Mary are lost in their version of the >> same dream. It's one they've both been having for the past few months. >> >> Tom's dream is that he is lying in the grass beside his grandson on a >> riverbank. They're watching the clouds float by and comparing thoughts about >> their shapes. They see boats, cows, and a car. Nearby, two fishing rods rest >> at an angle held up by two forked sticks pushed into the ground. Their tips >> are pointing toward the sky. Suddenly a rod tip bends and together they yell >> their battle cry: Fish on. They scramble to their feet. >> >> In her version, Mary has just finished a pastry course at a prestigious >> culinary institute. Two days later she is contacted to fill in at an >> important political dinner at a four-star restaurant. Her specialty dessert >> is a success; she hears the room erupt in applause. Diners are calling her >> name and asking her to take a bow for her creation. The restaurant owner >> offers her the position of head pastry chef. >> >> The sound of the alarm clock jolts Tom and Mary awake. They roll over, say >> their good mornings, and then follow a ritual that began about six months >> ago. Each reaches into the drawer of the nightstand on either side of the >> bed. They pull out identical day-to-day pocket calendars, cross out today's >> date, and flip forward to 147 days in the future-a day that's circled in red, >> a day they've thought about for the last twenty years. Now, as it gets >> closer, they feel the rush, shake a little, and sometimes giggle to >> themselves. >> >> This is their retirement day, the day they've decided to walk away from their >> nine-to-five jobs and begin a new life. They stare at the page on their >> calendars for a few minutes trying to bring back their dreams, then sigh in >> unison. They close their calendars and get ready to get through another day. >> Another day that will bring them closer to the date circled in red. >> >>

Edition details

• Publisher: MIKE BONACORSI
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193180771X
• ISBN 13: 9781931807715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104
• Editor: Deidre Randall