Tip: Divide your money between three areas: Retirement: Estate Planning; Current – The ‘Now Stuff’.
Let’s identify the purpose of each box.
The Retirement box holds your RRSP and Pension. It is classified as mid-term 5 to 10 year money.
The Estate Planning box is the box that holds your money for longer than 10 years. It is designed to fund the balance of your retirement and to put it bluntly, death.
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Tip: Make this your goal – “I plan to have a good time spending my money while making sure my children or grandchildren will have all that I want them to have.”
Tip: Plan on being dead and broke, not dead and rich. Just make sure you don’t end up broke before you end up dead.