Think, Write, Retire Sounds Right up my Alley!

Think, Write, Retire sounds like just what I need and want for my journey to retirement!

Retirement doesn't and won't come easy but, you can keep doing what you're doing and have to wait to retire well into your 70's like most people or you could do something differently and get there years ahead of schedule. Check it out here and see if you agree!

Home Office Setup

Home office setup (courtesy of istockphoto.com)

Now, that's a nice, neat and organized desk! Just what you and I need on our journey to retirement - to start to declutter our stuff and get down to business working on the future!

Today I've been working in my home office and after years of having a home based business, I realized that my office could be much better organized and I think I could get a lot more accomplished if it were. Much of what I need to do is get rid of things I no longer need. I do keep lots of magazines, books, journals as well as products, gift baskets and all the goodies that go inside and boxes for shipping orders.

I'll be spending this week reorganizing my office so that I can be much more productive and in the meantime, thought that this article on Home Office Setup would be helpful to you if you're in need of some office set up or organization.

Visualizing my Journey to Retirement

When I think of my retirement, I don't envision a little old lady in a nursing home!

Instead I'd love to watch the sun rises from my sunroom, never miss a sunset over a lakeview, golf or at least ride the golf cart while my husband golfs! I'll keep writing into my retirement since it brings me joy, it's fun and it's easy - would be easier if I had more time and that will come with my journey to retirement too.

I'll walk every day, several times a day. I'll continue to help my skin care customers although that should be pretty well set on auto pilot since they can each have their own account numbers and order directly online, I get the commission - sweet deal!

Welcome to My Journey to Retirement

As a writer and blogger for the last five years, this year I thought I'd start a new blog that I could post many of my writings in one location as well as share my path to retirement with you. I'll be gathering information from my accounts at my two blogs, Infobarrel, Squidoo, YouSayToo and Redgage and will share how you can get started doing what I do too.

Retirement for 50 Boomers!


I've also been a restaurant entrepreneur and owned an Italian American restaurant with my husband. We've just decided recently to close it after 17 years in business. My husband has been a chef for over 35 years and owning and operating a restaurant is a physically demanding job and he's had problems with shoulder, elbow and knee problems. It's just been getting too difficult to continue this type of work and it isn't helping our retirement plan either! More on that in future posts, running a restaurant and much of what it entails.

I'm looking forward to this blog, I can't wait to start sharing my articles with you as well as share ideas for you to begin your own journey to retirement as well.

I hope you'll follow along, add comments and suggestions during this process.