Discover the tips and strategies that will help you achieve your retirement goals.

I'm your host, James Canole, and this is the podcast dedicated to helping you retire well.

It all starts right here of Ready for Retirement. I'm your host,

James Cannell. And today we begin the fourth of four questions in our countdown to

retirement series. Now, this series was designed to say that if you

really want to know that if you're retired, you should be able to answer yes to four distinct

questions. The first question was, do I have enough money? The second question is, have I had enough

work? The third question was, do I know what I will do when I retire? And today we're going to

cover the fourth question.

What you'll notice is only the first question had anything to do with finances. So often people

have this vision of retirement what they think it's going to be like and they think the only thing

holding the back is the financial side of things of have I saved enough money. Have I put enough

into my 401k? Is my pension high enough? Have I maxed out my social

security? And that's always very important. That's a focus of a lot of the planning I do with clients.

But what people don't anticipate is the softer side of things, the expectations, the things that

they think they're going to get at a retirement that sometimes happen and sometimes they don't.

And today, the fourth question in our four-part series is,

is your spouse ready for you to retire? Now, this may come as a shock. And now, of course,

if you're not married or if you're single going on retirement, this won't matter so much to you.

But a fidelity study, a recent fidelity study recently showed that one and three spouses

have misaligned expectations when it comes to

retirement. Another study that was done by the Institute of Economic Affairs found that retirement

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