A very warm welcome to the early retirement show, the show dedicated to helping you navigate

the nuances of an early retirement, a non-traditional retirement. Now let's get right into the

episode so we can learn how to retire early. Welcome back to the early retirement podcast. I'm

your host, Ari Taublieb, and today's podcast episode is titled, How to Avoid the Most Common Investing Mistake,

when really it should be titled, How to Avoid the Most Common Financial Planning Mistake,

which I can already give you the answer for right now, which is not planning specifically for you,

and really basing your decision of, do I retire, when should I retire? How do I invest? How do I save on taxes?

How do I make sure I have proper protection? Based off of just rules of thumb, which is helpful

for conversations, but not specific to you. So today's episode is going to be a little different

of a format. I'm going to do a little bit more of storytelling where I talk about things that have

happened through clients, through things I've read, through just time in the industry. And I hope

that this sheds light and really invites you to think a little bit differently about the way I view

planning so that you can go great. I can live a better life with my money by doing some of these

things.

So once again, I'm grateful that all of this is free. My only ask is that if it has been helpful in any sense, please either do shoot me a note because I love receiving those notes on my website,

early retirement podcast.com. And please do rate the show. That helps more people find it.

It is my goal to help as many people

as possible retire early, which as you've been listening for a while. It's not that I'm in love with an early retirement. What I'm in love with is helping you get more life. And how do you get more life? Well, you do that by having more time. Well, how do you get more time? If you have more money, you can choose what you want to do with your time.

So I want more people to not be at work unnecessarily and really help them be able to live their best life. And if we're going to retire early, we need more money. More money if you're going to retire at 65 because traditionally, you're going to live longer. And if you're going to live longer, great, I want that to be the case, but we need your money

to last longer.

So today I'm going to be talking about all sorts of stuff, to be honest.

Some of this just coming from client stories, but where I like to start is with the following,

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