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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.

If you read the first instalment of this series which I started last week, then you know exactly what retirement means. The next question I want to address here is: why is planning for retirement so important?

Top on the list of why you must plan for retirement is the inevitability of growing old. Whether you realize it or not, or whether you do something about it or not, each time the clock ticks, announcing the passage of another second on the watch, it’s a gentle reminder that you’re growing older.

Have you ever noticed that it doesn’t cross most people’s mind to think of retirement before it is almost or too late? For majority of people, retirement is always a far away destination, to be arrived at one day in the distant future. And so, they fail to give any thought to it.

And it’s true. Retirement is a distant destination. But because we are always moving towards it each new day, most people tend to arrive at that far away destination without being conscious of how close they are to it.

I’ve just finished teaching another class of Information Business Marketers, the 6th in the series. And it was FIVE power-packed days of exposition on info-preneuring. No less than 126 attendees spent the week with me. And what a great time we had!

As is usual with this workshop, all the attendees went away from the venue confident that in a short while, they shall return with testimonies of their financial breakthroughs. I was so happy for them!

One recurring theme during the week was: After DTI what next?

It’s time to wrap up this series that I titled Three Simple Steps System That Pumps Money Into Your Bank Account Like An Invisible Paymaster. And we are going to do so by revealing the ultimate, bullet-proof secret that guarantees non-stop in-flow of cash into you bank account month after month.

What is the secret? Very simple. Master the system. Then start to repeat it over and again. And as you continue to repeat it, start improving on it. As you improve on it, more cash will be finding its way into your bank account. Just like that!