About Myself
My name is Ted. I am married and we live in Easton, MD.
The goal of this site is to write commentary on my personal experiences on how we were able to retire early and on managing all the retirement issues that come up in retirement. A second goal is to pass on as much financial planning and retirement planning knowledge as I can. To broaden the blog audience, I have also included Posts on some of our travel experiences that retirement enables.
My wife and I successfully retired in our 50s several years ago. I attribute this success to perseverance, discipline, and, most importantly, to educating myself in the area of personal finance and investing. I did this by reading over 100 books on financial/retirement planning and investing in the capital markets. I developed my own detailed retirement plan. This plan is the important final step before anyone should consider leaving their full-time employment. Although I was very knowledgeable in the area of financial/retirement planning and investing, I hired a financial planner to review my plan to get the opinion of a professional planner to confirm that my retirement plan was reasonable. Getting the opinion of a professional is an important step that everyone should do regardless of how comfortable they are as a “Do-It-Yourselfer.” A second opinion from an expert is always helpful.
I have always had a passion for financial and retirement planning. Today, to keep up to date, I continue to read many of the latest retirement/investment books and research information available in the public domain.
Feel free to ask me any questions about any related financial planning topic. I will be happy to give you my thoughts.
