Instead of a personal finance article roundup post today (as I typically do on Fridays), I want to tell you about some research a friend of mine, who is a voluteer with Crown Financial Ministries, is doing to create a Wise Advice retiree curriculum.
There is a need out there to develop a curriculum for those who are in their retirement stage of life. Certainly, it’s not always the case, but many retirees already have a budget, have paid off debt (or their house) and are living off retirement income. There are still stewardship responsibilities in retirement and there still must be some things for even wise retirees to learn!
Therefore, my friend is working to collect wise advice from existing retirees for those who will follow after them in age and their life situation. With this information, he is looking to create a curriculum or possibly a book to help those in retirement today.
Retiree Survey – We Need Your Help!
If you consider yourself “retired”, we are cordially requesting your anonymous input for a short and simple retirement survey. There are a few ways you can provide your answers.
- Answer each of the below questions in the comments of this post. I’ll consolidate responses (leaving them anonymous) and forward to my friend. Or…
- Download the Wise Advice Retirement Questions and email your responses to me (jasonprice@onemoneydesign.com). Remember this is anonymous, so you don’t have to include your name on the survey. If your name is in your email address I will not share your email or name unless you have specifically requested it to be shared. You have my honest word on this.
Here are the Wise Advice Retirement Questions
- After you retired, while in retirement, what is the one financial move you’ve made, that had the best impact on your financial situation?
- After you retired, while in retirement, what one thing for you or someone you know, was the biggest mistake or had the worst financial impact?
- Going forward, what is the number one thing you worry about the most, or could use help with?
If you don’t consider yourself a retiree would you pass this article along to others?
Retirement Quotes
To wrap up, I’d like to share with you some retirement quotes I found on the web. Some are wise quotes and others are meant to be funny, so don’t take them all literally. 
Personally, I like advice about continuing to work in retirement and fulfilling your life purpose for the Lord. The Bible doesn’t really provide much guidance on retirement, but it does talk a lot about work.
My friend John Gay from Frisco Financial Planning and Dallas area director of Kingdom Advisors summarizes retirement very well in a guest post last year during retirement week – If retirement is like landing a plane, what is the best retirement plan? Don’t land the plane (just let it run out of gas).
A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell ‘emto get a life. – Larry Laser
A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job. -Ella Harris
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. – Earl Nightingale
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Enjoy every retirement day as if it was your last and one day you will be right about it. – Author Unknown
Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing partof the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That’s retirement. – Stephen Leacock
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. – Gene Perret
I’m not just retiring from the company, I’m also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule
I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension! – Author Unknown
I’ve been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They’re called naps.- Merri Brownworth
Life begins at retirement. – Author Unknown
No longer having to punch a time clock is my definition of retirement. That way I could do what I want — when I want — anytime I want.- Brooky Brown
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – J. Lubbock
Retire from work, but not from life.- M.K. Soni
Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left.- George F. Burns
Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money. – Author Unknown
Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself. – Hartman Jule
Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. – Gene Perret
Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials — much to live on and much to live for. – Author Unknown
Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. – Abigail Charleson
Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice. – Dianne Nahirny
Retirement: World’s longest coffee break. – Author Unknown
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire. – Margaret Mead
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before your boss does. – Author Unknown
The company gave me an aptitude test and I found out the best work I was best suited for was retirement. – Author Unknown
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. – Abe Lemons
There are so many other interesting ways to spend your time. I feel like early retirement is a gift, but it’s such an incredible gift. It’s a gift I need to use. – Martha Felt-Bardon
There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it “retirement.” I call it bliss. – Betty Sullivan
We have no porch, no rocking chair — and no time. My biggest need is a calendar because there are so many things to do. Now I encourage people to retire — the younger the better. – Maurice Musholt
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. – Chi Chi Rodriguez
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. – Gail Sheehy
When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you’re still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. – Author Unknown
Quotes shared by great-inspirational-quotes.com.
