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How To Retire Without Money
By Bob Belmont
CHAPTER 3
WHEN TO RETIRE
Page 2 of 7
This book is
not meant for the vicariously inclined. There is no way that I
can prevent a reader from planking down his money, taking this
volume back to the safety of his room and dreaming about
getting out of the rat-race and living a real life, but never
getting around to doing it. We can't prevent this but we can
insist that this book is not meant for such readers.
It is meant
for people who truly want to get off the treadmill and retire
in comfort and to enjoy a better way of life than is lived by
the overwhelming majority of Americans today. We are
determined to do it, if at all possible, and it is possible
and this book will prove it.
The question
becomes WHEN?
And the
answer is NOW!
It is either
now or never. If you put it off today, you will find even more
reason to put it off tomorrow and a double amount of reason to
put it off next month. Until finally you will find it is next
year, and five years and ten and you'll look up someday and
find that life has passed you by. That you've spent it
dreaming about a better way of life but never quite had the
courage to reach out and take it, although it was always there
to take. You'll find youth gone, and many of the best things
in life never realized. You will have lived and died just one
more sad drop of water in an unhappy ocean.
I don't mean
to suggest here that you drop this book right this minute, put
your hat on your head, go down and tell the boss what he can
do with his job, draw your money out of the bank, and go to
the local tourist agency and buy a ticket for Italy (although,
frankly, I have known people who did just that and never
regretted it).
I do suggest
that right this moment you decide in your own mind, and
decisively, that you are going to do this thing. That you are
going to get off the treadmill and start living. Decide it
with determination. Burn it into your brain so definitely that
it will remain there until you have accomplished it.
Then read
this book right on through with extreme care. Mark every
passage that applies to you so that when you are finished you
can go back and restudy them. All passages of course, don't
and can't apply to you. If I give an example of opportunities
for feminine teachers in Rome working part time at enjoyable
employment for high pay, it obviously doesn't apply to a male,
aged 25, who has no teaching experience but is a good driver.
If I tell of
a business opportunity in Southern Spain for anyone with two
thousand dollars of capital, it obviously doesn't apply to
someone who starts off with no capital at all. Or if I
describe a beautiful spot in Greece where a couple with a
pension can live in luxury for five hundred dollars a month,
it obviously is of no interest to some young man or woman who
wants to travel, rather than to settle down.
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