Adding Goals and Prioritizing

Now it's time for you to begin to lay out your own goals for retirement planning. Table 5-6 lists some broad categories for you to consider, with some specific goals as subcategories. By breaking these out into as many goals as possible, we achieve two things:

• We make the overall process easier to understand because it's easier to tackle a bunch of smaller goals than one large goal.

• We can prioritize the goals in the event that we cannot reach all of them. This is going to be very important considering our earlier discussion about being realistic in our goal setting.