One way to address your worries is to identify what exactly is it that you are worried about and to address them.
As you know, worrying only leads to stress, and too much stress leads to ill health. Which will then lead to more worries. You can thus see how silly worrying about things can be.
So why dont you start to list down the things that worry you and you will probably realise that most of the things are things either you can do nothing about and things that you can handle.
To say that you worry about retirement is too broad a statement. So lets break it down.
1. Is it you worry about having to downgrade your lifestyle? -- can downgrade to smaller condo
2. Is it about not having enough savings to last your retirement? -- solution downgrade to
HDB, and/or work longer, give up your car (too many cars on the road anyway)
3. etc....
4. Ill health? Then dont worry so much.
5. Children's future? This is probably beyond your control, so no point worrying
Why dont you share what exactly worries you and you will get more suggestions on how to overcome them
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
52, 53, ordinary middle class couple, total earnings, $185k pa. Owns a condo, worth $1.5m, now fully paid up. Drives a one year old Jap car, fully paid up. Kids are in secondary schools. We don't have much savings as we spend a lot on the kids for tuition, enrichment, etc as well as giving our parent allowance to support them financially. Our net worth in total is only a small $2m in total.
We worry about our retirement. How can we retire? Do we need to downgrade to public housing? This worries us a lot.
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