What if there's more than one way to retire?

Most people are taught a pretty limited retirement formula: save more money, keep working, and wait.

But what if there are other roads?

In this episode, I walk through the METHODS portion of the Retire NOW Method — seven categories of "Maybe Moves" that can potentially help close your Retirement Income Gap and make your paycheck optional:

Money Moves • Expense Moves • Time Moves • Housing Moves • Occupational Moves • Distance Moves • Synergy

None of these is automatically the right answer. Every road has a toll — a tradeoff between what you get and what you give up.

The goal is to see the roads available to you clearly enough to decide which tradeoffs, if any, are worth making.

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What if work is already optional?

— Charlie Jewett
Creator, The Retire NOW Method

What if retirement isn't about reaching some magic number? What if it's really about replacing your paycheck?

For more than two decades, I've talked with thousands of families about retirement, and most start with the same question:

"How much money do I need to save before I can retire?"

The Retire NOW Method starts with a different question:

"How much income do I need to make work optional?"

In this episode, I explain the three mindset shifts behind the Retire NOW Method:

1. Retirement is an income problem, not an accumulation problem.
You don't live on a portfolio balance. You live on income. The goal is to replace the paycheck and solve the income gap.

2. Time is more valuable now than it will ever be again.
The next five years may include some of your healthiest years, young grandchildren, aging parents, travel, family, and experiences that can't simply be postponed and recovered later. Waiting has a cost too.

3. Retirement planning should evolve.
Technology has changed dramatically since the 1990s—and retirement income strategies have evolved too. Yet many people are still approaching retirement using the same basic thinking they learned decades ago.

The Retire NOW Method is built around a simple possibility:

What if work is already optional?

Before automatically deciding you need to work another five or ten years, let's find out.

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Clarity is better than advice. When people see clearly, they tend to make really great decisions.

— Charlie Jewett
Retire NOW Method

What if work is already optional?

Most retirement planning begins with the wrong question.

In this first conversation, Charlie introduces The Retire NOW Method and explores:

• Why retirement doesn't have to begin at a certain age or account balance.
• Why retirement is really about reaching the point where work becomes optional.
• Why income—not simply accumulation—is the key to understanding whether you can retire.
• Why seeing your situation clearly can reveal options you may not have realized you had.

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See clearly. Know when you've arrived.

Because when people see clearly...
they usually make really great decisions.