It is springtime here on the retirement answer man show.

Welcome to the show. My name is Roger Whitney.

I am your host and this is the show dedicated to helping you not just survive retirement,

believe you can rock retirement even in a quarantine,

even though it feels really hard.

You can do it.

We're going to help you by hopefully helping you set some intentional actions so you can make better decisions.

So this is the last week of the month and every last week of the month our head retirement coach from the Rock Retirement Club.com,

Beach Walker, BW, is here to talk about some interesting statistics around wellness and

longevity and how maybe attitude really does mean a lot more than we think.

So we're going to get to that in a moment and we're also going to be answering your listener questions which has been the focus this month but really we do this every

week so if you have a question and you need a little help or a little perspective go to

Roger Whitney.com forward slash ask Roger. That's me and you can fill out the web

form or you can leave an audio question for extra credit and we'll do our best to

answer your question thoughtfully to hopefully help you make a better decision

and whatever you're dealing with. So that's Roger Whitney.com forward slash

Ask Roger. Now next month, May we have an important theme for the entire month and that is your retirement

assumptions and it doesn't seem as detailed or as important at first as it really is.

There are a lot of assumptions that we make in our planning about life,

about inflation, about markets that can have a huge impact on our decision making.

And sometimes if we're not thoughtful about it,

an assumption that we make without a lot of thought

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