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Hi, everyone and welcome to another episode of Ready for Retirement.

I'm your host, James Cannell.

And on today's episode, we are going to discuss and explore what does it take to retire early.

So a lot of retirement planning is focused around the quote unquote traditional retirement ages of 65, 66, 67, kind of whenever you reach what's called full

retirement age for Social Security. And there's a lot of retirement planning strategies that take

place around that. And that works for a lot of people, but some people just want to retire early,

whether early to them

means 60, 55, 50, or even before. What we're going to do on today's episode is understand

what changes with your traditional retirement planning when that retirement is set to take place

much sooner, and what are the things that you need to consider, what are the items and the

issues that you need to work through in order to be

able to do so successfully. So what we're going to do is we're going to explore the four steps

that you need to take. If you want to retire early or if you just want to be financially free

early so that if something happens at work or if you have a bad day or decide that you hate what

you do, you have the freedom to leave. What we're going to do is explore the four

steps that you need to work through in order to determine if you're in a position to retire early.

Let's jump right in. So number one, the first thing that you want to do, whether it's with

retirement planning or really any goal that you have, is ask yourself why. Why, yes, in the

perspective of is it really everything you're going to think it's going to be, what's really driving that decision?

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