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The Four Phases of Retirement

Discover What Riley Moynes and Harvard Can Teach Us

Clifford Jones
5 min readMar 3, 2023

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Did you know a man named Riley Moynes wrote a book about retirement called, The Four Phases of Retirement that tells a story about retirement we don't often read or hear about? Me neither until I saw his Tedx talk.

Riley Moynes is an experienced financial advisor, best-selling author, and outstanding public speaker, so he tells us on his LinkedIn profile. His book is a quick read for anyone interested in learning what goes wrong with retirement and why.

I'll share a quick overview of the phases he reveals from his experience and exhaustive research of other retirees. Then, I'll walk you through ten retirement insights from a Harvard University study.

After that, you can imagine what it would feel like if you lived life sooner as if “every day is a holiday.” I imagined it decades ago and feel blessed to live semi-retired for over thirty years. May you find it!

Buy the book on Amazon.

Here's what Riley Moynes teaches us about four distinct phases of retirement:

  1. Pre-retirement. The pre-retirement phase is the period before retirement when…

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Clifford Jones
Clifford Jones

Written by Clifford Jones

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