Will you be able to retire comfortably?
Yesterday our financial advisor congratulated us. She showed my husband and I a chart that covered 25 years and explained that we had now withdrawn one third more than we had put into our IRAs and that the current value of our retirement accounts was double what we had originally put into those accounts.
Intellectually I understand that this is the effect of a general upward trend of the stock market, despite some huge corrections, tax-free growth and trusting professional, conservative money managers. They kept telling us, “Don’t do anything.” each time the stock market crashed, and we followed their advice.
Emotionally, it feels like magic.
We started with no savings at all and never earned enough to be extravagant. Since we turned our IRAs over to professionals we have only invested in various mutual funds.
That’s why I am writing this today. When we didn’t know what we were doing, we started contributing to our retirement funds. We acted as if our income was the amount we took home after deductions for taxes and IRAs. We simply lived comfortably within our income.
If you have been making excuses about needing your money for other things instead of contributing to your own future, please consider our story. And if your old beliefs are keeping you stuck, the process Dr. Lammers and I teach in EMBRACE PROSPERITY will let you free the energy that will help you create your own financial freedom. Read the book and start now!
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