Things I did today

Wade Pfau has gotten so much into the math of retirement planning that his previous academic title was Professor of Retirement Income. With his wealth of knowledge, he's decided to write a series of books:  Retirement Planning Guidebook: Navigating the Important Decisions for Retirement Success  Reverse Mortgages: How to use Reverse Mortgages to Secure Your Retirement Safety-First Retirement Planning: An Integrated Approach for a Worry-Free Retirement and How Much Can I Spend in Retirement?: A Guide to Investment-Based Retirement Income Strategies In this first book of the series, he walks through the major topics of generating retirement income that the other three books cover in-depth, as well as Social Security, Medicare, and Long Term Care planning. In the first chapter, he stresses that there are multiple income strategies and that there are certain strategies that resonate more strongly with some, and other strategies that work well for others. There is more beyond the i...

 Surge 11 went well. I remembered to do my stretches and PT daily except for the last 4 days of the month, when my hip pain was finally mild to none. I was worried with my hip pain as I had a conference to attend the third week of the month, and walking was still painful. Apparently, what I needed was being forced to walk 5 - 9 miles a day for six days at the conference, along with my PT. At end, for the day I walked 9 miles, I had a painful hour in the afternoon that subsided, and after that I've only had the mildest of pain on occasion when going up stairs. I guess I'm mostly cured! I'll call that an unintentional success and keep doing my PT. Surge 12 took me some time to think about. I've settled on going through a book I bought late last year, "Retirement Planning Guidebook: Navigating The Important Decisions For Retirement Success", by Wade Pfau. I've been wanting to read this book and work through the exercises, as I'm hopeful to retire before I...