Based on the book's title, you would be justified in assuming that we are claiming that we can teach you how you can retire early as well. That was never our intention. Our retirement plan is based on our own personal circumstances, which most likely won't apply to most other people. In particular, we had two reasonably well paying jobs, no kids and no debt when we started to seriously save for retirement. All these factors contributed to our early retirement at age 48, more than any strategies or planning steps that we could implement. So it would be unrealistic to think that anyone else who has a different personal situation could expect the same results. This is just what happened to work out for us.
Having said that, the steps we took to create our retirement plan in order to calculate at what age we could afford to retire, should be applicable to most people. These steps include analyzing and tracking our spending habits, creating a budget and sticking to it, generating a savings plan that predicted how large a retirement nest egg we needed to accumulate and how long it would take to get there, and a spending plan which we now follow closely in our retirement years, to ensure we don't deplete that nest egg prematurely. Our strategies to structure our post-retirement income to minimize income tax burden, and to generate a regular income flow to pay our bills, should also be applicable.
If you are looking for the magic bullet of how you can retire at 48, then please don't read our book. We won't be telling you this. But if you want to learn how to generate a plan to determine at what age you could retire and with what type of lifestyle, then our experiences may help you.
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