Retire Early ~ Don't waste your time

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  • Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
  • When the topic of retiring early comes up there are two main objections you hear. I'll get bored, and I love my job. Also, the question about how you know if you have enough money. So people are scared of retiring because of these unknowns. But, I believe that we can get some pretty good answers to help up feel more comfortable about our retirement. Retirement in general is scary and so retiring early is even more scary. But having the time to do what you want is priceless.

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  • @aurielsmith8753
    @aurielsmith8753 2 місяці тому +9

    Like what you mention about 'working for free'...never thought of it that way....thank you

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому

      Yea, I like that idea too. I try to get people to think of things in a different way. So I'm glad to hear tat it go you thinking. Thanks for the comment.

  • @tonylevine2716
    @tonylevine2716 Місяць тому +1

    New subscriber. Great video and info! I retired this past Oct at 55. Blessed to have a military pension and VA disability. I also have two retirement accounts. The Rule of 55 applies to me but no plans to use it as I have Bridge accounts. Plan to take SS at 62.
    It’s all about cutting debt and spending before you retire and during retirement. The more $$ you make the more you will spend.
    Time is the greatest asset in retirement. Time to do whatever you want and when you want. I lost my father on Mother’s Day and I spent a lot of time with him and my mother before he died and after he died to help my mother take care of his affairs. I would have not been able to do this if I was still working.
    Retiring early is the greatest feeling in the world and pray that more people will retire early because life is short! At some point, you have to stop chasing the money and enjoy life! 🙏🏾❤️

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  Місяць тому +1

      Well said. I really love comments like this. So thanks for taking the time. Sorry about your Dad, but that's great you got spend extra time with him. It sounds like you've got your finance side of the retirement thing set up really well. Congratulations on retiring early. I wish UA-cam was around when I was younger and I had resources like this. I thought I was the only one on this path when I was in my thirty's. Turns out there are a lot of us.

  • @galenperry4606
    @galenperry4606 2 місяці тому +5

    Good video and I agree. We all have too much crap and just keep buying what we don’t need.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you. I was always a stuff person when I was younger (I got it from my Mom) but my wife is an experience person... and she has shown me the light. 😆

  • @dcallahan2074
    @dcallahan2074 2 місяці тому +8

    "Work the right amount & get out of the game."

    • @mohamedhasan6264
      @mohamedhasan6264 2 місяці тому

      If it comes to me, I don't like stuff, I would be retired very early. However, I have to plan for my family, they like stuff.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому

      Ha, well teach them work for their own stuff. Then they may not want as much. 😀

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому

      That is how you know when you won the game. 😎

  • @Semiretirementanddowhatyoulove
    @Semiretirementanddowhatyoulove 10 днів тому

    Great daily reminder 👍🏻
    Thx, great content

  • @Mr.freedom_
    @Mr.freedom_ 2 місяці тому +2

    Great great video keep them coming 👏🏿

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks Mr. Freedom! I will keep them coming if y'all keep watching. 😎🇺🇲

  • @domingolopez6394
    @domingolopez6394 2 місяці тому

    Great stuff. Thank for sharing

  • @maritsa6575
    @maritsa6575 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for your video.
    These are great insight! My husband and I have that mentality since soon we will be empty nester. I totally agree.. consume less..

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому

      That will be a big change. I bet your looking forward to a little no found freedom.

  • @FinancialFreedomLifestyle
    @FinancialFreedomLifestyle Місяць тому +1

    Great advice man!

  • @rogeliofernandez6266
    @rogeliofernandez6266 2 місяці тому

    Living the dream! Enjoy PR

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +1

      Ha, whenever my friends say "what's going on?" My standard answer is "living the dream". Thanks Amigo!

  • @DionTalkFinancialFreedom
    @DionTalkFinancialFreedom 2 місяці тому +1

    Great stuff.

  • @wildfoodietours
    @wildfoodietours 2 місяці тому +4

    Such a great idea to consume less. Just compare anyone living today to someone living just 50 years ago. We have enough.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +2

      I know. I've been meaning to make a video about this comparison. When the youngsters today say they can't afford to buy a house, but they aren't looking at the little 850 sq. foot house like our parents first house.

  • @hammurabiofbabylon1354
    @hammurabiofbabylon1354 2 місяці тому

    LOL, I had to rewatch the video because the birds mostly took my listening concentration. Anyway, excellent point about when to retire. What’s the use of having so much money that when you can no longer do what you had planned to do when you retire.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому

      Ha! I've got a new tactic to double my number of views. Those birds drive me crazy and they make a mess. Thanks for watching. And yes... we need to figure out what we really need.

  • @salsaez3330
    @salsaez3330 2 місяці тому

    I feel exactly what your saying my way of living is exactly how you just described it living on less but not sacrificing the things you really want. My wife are trying to get our first house out there so we can do the abnb and let that pay off the house till we are finally ready to leave and live permanently out in PR. Our plan is to have 2 houses one for airbnb and the other to live in so we can generate income and still have our saving for regular daily living

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому

      I just filmed my next video. It will be called "How much it costs to run a vacation rental in PR". I probably won't post it for about a week. But stay tuned for that.

  • @Adnanhasb1
    @Adnanhasb1 Місяць тому

    Is it to possible to retire with the inflation ?
    How do we account for that ?

  • @iczemi
    @iczemi 2 місяці тому +2

    I'm 62, living frugally me and wife.
    0 debt. I have all the sht I need.
    Bye bye work.

  • @FIRE_DrNinjaTurtle
    @FIRE_DrNinjaTurtle 2 місяці тому +2

    Love it. I have to quote you on Facebook. Buy less stuff

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +1

      Please do... you heard it here first.
      Thanks Darrell.

  • @OurRetireEarlyJourney
    @OurRetireEarlyJourney 2 місяці тому +2

    We are semi guilty of what you said. We have numbers but those numbers are modeled after what we want our retirement to look like. An example is we have 800$ month build in for travel in retirement. We plan on saving enough to stop working and spend time on passions and volunteering.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +1

      That seems like a pretty healthy travel budget. Mine is about the same. As soon these YT channels hit we won't have to worry about it. 🤣😁

    • @OurRetireEarlyJourney
      @OurRetireEarlyJourney 2 місяці тому

      @@TheRetirementality 😅 We aren’t counting on it. We are on here to hopefully help people younger than us get on track. Your messages are fantastic and you are on here doing the same thing. Trying to course correct things were aren’t taught. 🙌🏼

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому

      @@OurRetireEarlyJourney Yea, when I started out I was doing videos about how to buy one house every year like I did. But then I felt like I said it all, so my content keeps changing. I feel like some of the people who just make the same video everyday are the ones who actually get big. But, that's not what I'm trying to do.

  • @rriqueno
    @rriqueno 2 місяці тому +2

    Im Puerto Rican and i plan to retire next year at 51 yrs but i have a number 1.2 mil because i want to live comfortably travel etc. if nothing catastrophic happens early next year im out! 😂

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +1

      That is awesome. Congrats on being able to retire early. I'm hopefully going to be doing more travel soon too. So I will hopefully have more traveling content coming up.

  • @javierlugo259
    @javierlugo259 Місяць тому

    This video is right on with today's real world scenario......You have set goals and do not let the system keep you in debt......My wife and I live and work in Houston, TX but will retire in June of 2025 in Quebradillas and live a free and happy life, not serving the wrong master "Corporate America".....I think we all need to be more humble and gratetful, remember you can't buy freedom and this this world wants to sell you everything else, so make your freedom.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  Місяць тому

      That's awesome. Congrats on getting to the last leg before you retire. And having a plan. When you know what you want you realize what you don't need.

  • @lilibethvilella
    @lilibethvilella Місяць тому

    PR is my home. I’m 52 divorced starting over. Published a book on healing from divorce called THE SUN ALWAYS PIERCES THROUGH as part of my retirement pivot

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  Місяць тому

      Ugg. Sorry... and congrats... I'm working on a book too. It seems very daunting. I just want to get it written and then figure out what to do with it.

  • @itchyasian4592
    @itchyasian4592 2 місяці тому +1

    It seems like we all just work a 9-5 job for a paycheck and retirement savings. Live alittle here and there. I wish I can retire early.😊

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +1

      Yep, like I said... you have to have fun along the way too. I think that is one thing the people in the FIRE movement forget about.

    • @OurRetireEarlyJourney
      @OurRetireEarlyJourney 2 місяці тому

      @@TheRetirementality this is why we don’t consider us in FIRE. We budget FUN as our intentional spending but not much else. We still have a save first mentality.

  • @robertchandler3914
    @robertchandler3914 2 місяці тому +1

    Too much stuff - have a garage sell.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому

      I used to love going garage saleing. My car still wants to stop at all of them but I force it to drive on by. My wife will make throw something away every time I come home with something new.
      😎

  • @davidhuffman625
    @davidhuffman625 2 місяці тому +1

    I’m sorry but you sound like every other (including me) privileged person who was lucky enough to obtain everything they hoped for. It’s so easy to talk about how “things” don’t matter when you’re sitting in your poolside backyard in Puerto Rico, almost being able to see Saint Thomas were you used to live. Get serious for a moment, what percentage of the population do you really think you’re talking to? I think retirement sucks, it’s almost impossible to replace the sense of purpose and your coworkers that made up a large part of your social life on a daily basis, and it is impossible to replace the income. Sorry to go off on a rant here, but I couldn’t disagree more with everything you just said. Unless you think you’re only talking to little kids.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +4

      That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. You should go and watch the video I made about going broke and how the sheriff came and knocked on my door and told me to leave when they were foreclosing on my house back in 2008. I'm very proud of what I've accomplished in my life. If you want to call me privileged, that's fine. You want to tell me I'm lucky. You have no idea. Truth is I worked my ass to get this house in Puerto Rico and everything else I have. I do this UA-cam channel to try to help other people do what I've done and offer advice. Maybe you should find a way to help people in your retirement and then you can find some fulfillment you in you own life, instead trying to say negative things online to people you know nothing about.

    • @rriqueno
      @rriqueno 2 місяці тому +1

      @@TheRetirementality Well Said. Granted there are some percent of people who are really unlucky but the vast majority make bad decisions after bad decisions in their life and feel they are underprivileged. Bah! If you spend less in crap and invest your money eventually you can retire early but if you dont. You will be working for ever.

    • @TheRetirementality
      @TheRetirementality  2 місяці тому +1

      @@rriqueno Thanks. That is a great point. I think people don't want to take responsibility for their bad decisions either. They come up with excuses of why they can't do it and limit their potential because they don't think they can do it.

    • @josephwalsh6722
      @josephwalsh6722 2 місяці тому

      I love the quote “The harder I work the luckier I seem to get!” Love the channel!