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Strategies for planned retirement

How should anyone without a job start preparing for retirement right after reading this article –– one hour flat from now? Can’t be done, you say! You want to know my own opinion? “Yes, it can be done!” And, if you bear with me, I’ll show you how.

The first, small step towards achieving that goal is the easiest. It doesn’t require you raising a seed capital. It doesn’t demand that you write yet another I-beg-to-apply letter. Nor does it require that you even lift a finger.

Strategies for planned retirement

We are still on the first step of my six-point agenda for planned retirement. And the point I was making in the last instalment was that you must decide not be a liability to others in your old age. When you take that decision, it will change your thinking.

Instead of thinking that others owe you a duty to provide for you, you begin to hold yourself accountable for what is not working in your life. And what that does for you is that it forces you to begin to look for a way to turn things around because you now realize that it is your responsibility to do so. You’re now the boss. The buck stops at your table.

…Exclusive Interview With Dr. Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase On The Upcoming Certified Netpreneur Course

By Lordson Okpetu and Segun Abisoye

Few weeks from now, the first ever Certified Netpreneur’s Course by SADC; the one that you will attend and come out with a cheque as a proof of earning on your graduation day, will commence.

Expectations are high among SDE! readers nationwide concerning this training. And a lot of people have been bombarding us with lots of questions about this first-of-its-kind training.

Strategies for planned retirement

My 6-step agenda to planned retirement, which I enumerated here last week, look simple on paper. But I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not so when it comes to implementing it. That is why I’ve decided to take each one of them and describe what needs to be done to get the desired result.
I start with the first one which is, Decide today that you will not be a liability to the people around you in your old age.

Strategies for planned retirement

Just how difficult is it to burn the bridge behind you after landing in an enemy territory, knowing that there are only two options left: defeat the enemy and live or be defeated and die?

I found myself treading this path in 1984. I didn’t plan to go about it the topsy-turvy way. I had wanted to attract investors to team up with me in the publishing venture I came up with. I invested the first three months of that year trying to woo investors but there was no luck.

Which is better: planned or forced retirement? That’s easy to answer, you say. But think again. Do you remember any of those trick questions in your school days which seemed to be asking what was so obvious and you rushed to answer them first only to be told by your class teacher that you didn’t get the answer right?

This is one of such questions. Now, don’t get into an argument with me on this. Just patiently read every line that follows. And at the end of it, you’ll see what I mean.