
Retirement Starts Today
A Non-Financial Guide to an Even Better Retirement
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Benjamin Brandt
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Benjamin Brandt
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Foreword by Dr. Benjamin Hardy
DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU'LL SPEND RETIREMENT?
If the answer is, “Well, it just depends on how much money I have,” that’s the wrong answer.
Too many of us have retirement planning backwards. We think we’re supposed to handle the financial aspect first and put our dreams on hold until we can afford them. But before we run the numbers, before exploring strategies to avoid getting killed by taxes, we’ve first got to shift our mindset. We have to move from scarcity to abundance so that we can focus on who we want to be in retirement. Can you really fill all that free time with golf, pickleball, and “The Price Is Right”?
Better yet, would you want to?
Retirement content creator and financial advisor Benjamin Brandt, CFP®, has spent years helping clients and podcast listeners reach their full potential in retirement. Retirement Starts Today corrals his message into small, actionable steps that anyone can take to get where they want to be and make their retirement even better.
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- WharfRat
- 03-07-25
Great advice!
I loved the non-financial focus on retirement. A lot of great ideas to consider!
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- Chuck
- 02-07-25
Highly Recommend This Great Book
I am a long-time listener to the Retirement Starts Today Podcast. This book goes beyond the logistics of IRAs, Taxes and RMDs. Mr. Brandt focuses on the Retirement Lifestyle and the idea of Abundance rather than Scarcity as it pertains to a retiree’s future and present and not solely the size of the portfolio. For years I have not seriously considered the title of the Podcast (and now book) ‘Retirement Starts Today’, the author did a wonderful job of explaining the profound reality of that Idea, Retirement-and everything- Really Starts Today! My wife and I are in our early 60s and thanks to concepts in this book we are excited to take our retirement out for a test drive while we are still working. There are many of these useful notions in the book and for someone obsessed with retirement I was surprised at the new advice Mr. Brandt introduces beyond the bottom line- to paraphrase, We know how much money we have in our retirement accounts, we do not know how much time we have to spend it. He does a wonderful job reading the audio book. I highly recommend this Audio book
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- Jim
- 03-14-25
Make the mind shift happen
I enjoyed this book very much and will tell my friends about it. I always enjoy when the author reads the book. And, in this case, the author is a great communicator. I especially enjoyed the chapter entitled “small hinges.” Throughout the book, Brandt encourages us to make the most of the opportunity that retirement can present. Like Jon Lennon’s quote that “life is what happens while you are busy making other plans,” our financial plans and, by extension, our retirement years can unravel while we are busy paying for other stuff. The non-financial factors drive intention. We need to find ways to harness that intentionality to create an awesome retirement.
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