Early Retirement Blog

For many people, especially in 2012, retirement planning is their top new year resolution.  If you have heard yourself saying things like “This is the year that I get serious and create a retirement plan.”  Or, “It’s time to stop kidding around, we need to create a retirement plan, create a budget, and find the [...]

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Take it from a former banker, the European debt crisis, is in reality a global banking crisis. The mainstream media, owned by the same 1% who own the banks,  have done a great job of whipping up hysteria and fear regarding the European debt crisis, but a purposefully poor job of explaining the truth about [...]

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I am pleased to announce the release of our new Free Early Retirement Software.  Now, you simply choose when you want to retire, and Free Early Retirement Software gives you the, plan and tools to make it happen. Free Early Retirement Software enables you  to easily plan, manage, achieve, and maintain, a safe and secure [...]

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The layoffs continue at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), with a fresh 7500 positions to be axed this year, as the USPS struggles to remain solvent.   The latest layoffs at the USPS come with a small early retirement incentive package, of $20,000 to be paid over two years, for Postal Service employees aged 50 and [...]

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Right now, somewhere in Washington D.C., a plan to rob Social Security is being devised, that would have seniors fight each other over Social Security. Thanks to R.J. Eskrow over at the Huffington Post, word is leaking out from the Obama Budget Deficit Commission to rob your retirement, that “the Deficit Commission is finalizing a [...]

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I don’t know exactly when it started, or even where it started, but I can see dead trees.   Wherever I go, I see the rain forests, jungles, redwoods that once existed.   Where people see cows grazing on beautiful rolling green covered hills – I see dead trees. Long after the forests and those [...]

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This earth day green calculator demonstrates the positive financial benefit living a green lifestyle has on your financial future.   See how lowering your consumption enables you to save more for retirement and need less savings to retire.   Going green allows you to retire early. Enter an expense into the Green Calculator, and the [...]

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Not This Christmas – I’m Going Green! After 44 continuous years of celebrating Christmas with a tree, this year I have decided not to have a Christmas tree, I’m celebrating a Green Christmas.   Last year I was shocked by the number of discarded Christmas trees, that littered the sidewalks of my San Francisco neighborhood, [...]

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Thanksgiving on Alcatraz 2008 A Green Thanksgiving.   No turkey, stuffing, gravy, or cranberry sauce. Instead, at 6:00 a.m in the cold damp November air of San Francisco, we board a crowded ferry bound for Alcatraz Island.   On this day, as on every Thanksgiving day, the island belongs once again to Native Americans. Old [...]

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Life coaches help clients improve their lives, and achieve their goals, through lifestyle changes.  Green Retirement Planning enables individuals to retire early, and with significantly less savings, by living a green lifestyle. By helping clients switch  from a consumption lifestyle, to a green lifestyle, life coaches can help their clients achieve their retirement goals. Clients [...]

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