5 Ways to Calm Your Retirement Fears

Phil:

I think you are being too reasonable and intellectual when presenting your ways for people to get rid of their worries and fears about retirement.

Here is part of an e-mail that I received from a gentleman who read my books "How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free" and The Joy of Not Working"

(I have withheld his name due to the nature of the e-mail.)

"Ernie: I have read your books on retirement and I thank you for those. At 52 I have an executive position in a fortune 500 company, make a crazy salary and own my own home outright . . . I am terrified of retiring, I have established no friends outside of work and am not sure I could make new ones. My wife and I have 'a couple million' in financial assets but I worry constantly that no one would leave a job like mine in this economy or that we might run out of money."

My point is that some people will have fears about retiring regardless of how well you present your reasons that they shouldn't have these fears. This guy and his wife own their house outright and have $2 million and he is still worried.

I can recall Dr. John Sarno in his book "The Mind-Body Connection" mentioning that even multi-millionaires have irrational fears of winding up broke and destitute in retirement.

Ernie J. Zelinski

http://www.erniezelinski.com

Author of “How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free”

(Over 125,000 copies sold and published in 9 languages)

and “The Joy of Not Working”

(Over 250,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages)

http://www.sensationalquotes.com/Retirement.html

Ernie Zelinski 6:40PM September 03, 2010