Blog index
It has now been a year since I started writing and sharing blogs with you, my readers. The blogs are based on my book Serious About Retiring: A Practical Roadmap for a Healthier, Wealthier, Happier Retirement as well as my further insights into retiring and retirement over the last year. This blog issue is an index to all blogs to date and a grouping into the various subjects discussed. The subjects are Aging, Estate Planning, Income and Investing, Social Security, Taxes, and Work / Retirement.
The 25 blogs are now organized by subject area on the website www.SeriousAboutRetiring.com where they are stored. You can find and read any of these blogs by clicking on the Subject and then the Blog Title on the website.
Here is the index.
| Subject | Blog Title | Description |
| Aging | Energy for life | Accountability and measurement as tools to improve health |
| Aging | Use it or lose it | Importance of learning in retirement |
| Aging | Later is too late | Critical issues to deal with before death |
| Aging | Worry | Coping with uncertainties during aging |
| Aging | Your future health | How to manage and cope with your changing health. |
| Estates | Cabin to kids | Complications from leaving an asset to mulltiple people |
| Estates | Estate and retirement planning together | Questions to answer when planning estates |
| Income / Investing | Enough money for retirement | How to determine if you have enough money for retirement |
| Income / Investing | Getting your ducks in a row. Part 1 | How to budget for retirement |
| Income / Investing | Preventing serious investment mistakes | Applying investment risk to construct better investment portfolios |
| Income / Investing | Extra retirement income | Six different approaches to generating more income in retirement |
| Social Security | Social Security. Part 1 – Background | Social Security – general information |
| Social Security | Social Security. Part 2 – Individuals | Social Security – strategies for individuals |
| Social Security | Social Security. Part 3 – Married Couples | Social Security – strategies for married couples |
| Social Security | Social Security. Part 4 – Previously Married | Social Security – strategies for the preciously married |
| Taxes | Start now to reduce taxes in retirement | Using Roth conversions to reduce income taxes during retirement |
| Taxes | Charitable giving in retirement | Managing taxes for charitable giving during your life and upon death |
| Work / Retirement | Cello as my retirement adventure | My example of an adventure in retirement |
| Work / Retirement | The time of your life | Opportunities and challenges of a long retirement life |
| Work / Retirement | Retirement is NOT a punishment | Functions of work before and after retirement |
| Work / Retirement | Something BIG in retirement | Stories of people who have had big accomplishments during retirement |
| Work / Retirement | Making a BIG goal happen | Examples of BIG activities during a long retirement |
| Work / Retirement | Achievement in retirement | Role of work in retirement |
| Work / Retirement | Retirement so far | Evolution of activities during retirement |
| Work / Retirement | Who am I? | If your identity is your work, how can you cope with retirement? |