What retirement lifestyle do you want?
Start to shape it now with this new Retirement Quiz
Shape up your retirement lifestyle planning with this simple retirement quiz
Most people don’t like to think about retirement beyond their 401K, IRA or home value. This fill-in-the blanks retirement quiz makes it easy to expand your perspective.
You will quickly realize, retirement is about more than just your financial retirement plan. It is a Retirement LIFESTYLE plan.
There are many lifestyle changes after retirement you cant forsee right now. But it is a lifestyle that you have the opportunity to shape how you want it. You just need to align it with your Career Plan by cultivating it.
This means the smart way to shape your future retirement lifestyle is by how you conduct your career planning now.
Your current career planning and retirement planning should both take into consideration:
- When should I retire?
- Where should I retire?
- Will I be emotionally ready to retire
- Investing for retirement math and calculations
What is your version of the ideal retirement lifestyle?
Everyone has their own version of retirement. For example there is the retire early lifestyle. You may want to retire early, but you may think you can’t retire unless you have a certain sum of money or you may never want to retire.
But if you want to do it your way, in your desired lifestyle, it must align with your Career Destiny to manifest.
Find out how to fashion the retirement you want with this easy Retirement Lifestyle Quiz
Note: The two columns on the right are fillable fields. Write in your answers and save the page or print it out.
- First, go through this list of retirement lifestyle beliefs and check off which Retirement beliefs that you have now
- Then, go through the list again, and in the right column, write in your own words the retirement beliefs that you want to cultivate
- Once you are done, take your final list of retirement beliefs you want to cultivate, and write a paragraph or two about the lifestyle you want to manifest: the living environment, the monthly cashflow, the people you want there, even the tools, toys and vehicles you want!
Let’s get started! What retirement lifestyle do you want to cultivate?
What Does Your Ideal Retirement Lifestyle Mean to You? | Retirement Beliefs that I have now | Retirement Beliefs I want to cultivate |
| I have to work full time as long as I am physically able | ||
| I want to veg out and relax on the porch of a retirement home | ||
| I want to make a difference when I retire by volunteering | ||
| I can never retire due to poor planning | ||
| I can’t retire till at least 72, then live a very frugal life. | ||
| I can retire at 65, live on Social Security and reverse mortgage | ||
| I can retire at 62, live on an annuity and reverse mortgage | ||
| I can retire and live comfortably on savings & investments | ||
| I am all set for an awesome retirement | ||
| I don’t live for retirement, when I’ll be too old to do stuff | ||
| I live for retirement, when I have all kinds of free time | ||
| Retirement means hang out with grandkids and do hobbies | ||
| My retirement income is based on a side business I’ve set up | ||
| I want to start a second career or business when I retire | ||
| Retirement means I stop working and live on a fixed income | ||
| Retirement means I stop working full time and go to part-time | ||
| Retirement means I continue to work doing what I love | ||
| Retirement means I slow down, work as much as I enjoy it | ||
| Retirement means curtailing my life and hunker down in poverty | ||
| Retirement? it’s too far off to even think of | ||
| I’m too scared to think about retirement | ||
| I don’t understand retirement | ||
| Retirement is a chance to better manage my life in the now | ||
| Let’s just see what happens when I get there to retirement | ||
| I don’t have to ever retire, because my work is play | ||
| I don’t have to retire because I’m living my Career Destiny |
What retirement Lifestyle scenario do you want to cultivate?
Compare the “Retirement beliefs you have now” answers with “Retirement beliefs I want to cultivate” column. Are you happy with the retirement beliefs you have now? Are there some you definitely need to change?
If you have half-baked ideas or are not clear about the retirement lifestyle you want, now is the time to cultivate the beliefs you desire.
By defining your retirement lifestyle beliefs in written form, and nurturing them through your career path planning, you can make them a certainty.
One way to make them a reality, is take your answers and write down a short paragraph that you can refer to regularly. Watch your mind manifest it into a tangible development over time.
Note: This retirement quiz is only a small part the complete treatment of your retirement beliefs found in my career path planning courses.
Your Career planning has a huge impact on your Retirement Lifestyle
Your retirement beliefs will affect how you approach your career or business destiny in a huge way.
For example, if you believe retirement is going to be an exiting, fulfilling adventure, would you just slag along in your career to earn and save in a lackluster way? Of course not, you’d be focused on earning and saving the maximum amount you could!
Thankfully, you can shape and cultivate your career path planning to decisively influence the retirement lifestyle you want. They can work together to give you the most wonderful retirement you can imagine.
Cultivating a Career Destiny that honors your retirement and abundance beliefs are covered in my one week home study course, Define Your Career Destiny.
It identifies the 5 Factors that reveal the career or business you are meant for. The course covers retirement beliefs extensively.
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