HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 1

Articles In This Section:

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 1

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 2

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 3

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 4

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 5

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 6

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 7

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 8

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 9

· HOW TO GET STARTED—NOW - part 10

As I pointed out in the chapter entitled WHEN TO RETIRE, the reader who is seriously determined to get out of the rat-race and build a new and satisfactory life in retirement, must decide to do it now.

If you lack this determination to do it now, you will probably never do it at all and retirement will come to you, if it ever comes, at the age of 65 or more when most of life has passed you by.

But if you have read this far in this book and have assimilated what I've had to say, and have read the scores of actual case histories I've used as examples, you should have that determination.

To do it now!

However, I have no desire to send you off half-cocked. We want to do it now but we also want to do it right. We want to go into this cool minded, determined, and using every advantage we can find to assure ourselves of success. Tens of thousands of others have done it. People who were no more intelligent and with no more of the "breaks" on their side than you have on yours. "Breaks" are made, there is no such thing in reality as "luck."

Fine. What is the first step?

I divide the readers of this book into three groups, roughly.

The first group is that person, or family, that has a pension or income which they have thus far thought of as insufficient upon which to retire.

The second group is that of a person, or family, which has a very small income which truly is not enough upon which to retire, at least not on a desirable scale.

The third group, and that which this book is most strongly directed toward, is that of a person or family that has no regular income at all—but still wishes to retire.

Let's take them one by one.

GROUP No. 1. Let us say you have an income of from $100 a month up. I have no idea what the source may be. It might be a pension, military or otherwise, or it might be social security or even investments in stocks, bonds or what have you.