Katana Abbott Midlife Millionaire™ Coach

The 4 Biggest Social Security Mistakes You Want to Avoid

Lynn Abbott-McCloud — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

One of the best ways to ensure guaranteed lifetime income that keeps pace with inflation is Social Security. However, many retirees have yet to understand how to choose the optimal time to take benefits, risking the possibility of outliving their savings. Understanding the rules and deadlines for Social Security is so important that I have […]

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Navigating Retirement When You Retire at 60

Lynn Abbott-McCloud — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:13:59 +0000

My husband, Mark, retired after 42 years with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It has been an amazing experience, and the DSO will continue to play an important role in our lives. Still, his paycheck and benefits have stopped, and we must coordinate health insurance, pensions, and Social Security. Problem? He is only 60! Additionally, we […]

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5 Steps for Effortless Manifesting

Katana Abbott — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:56:05 +0000

One of the biggest problems I find with creating goals is losing momentum. How many of you start out the first of the year with the best intentions of making changes in their life, their finances or relationships, only to get distracted or disappointed within a few weeks? I’ve had it happen to me, too, […]

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Looking Back to Leap Forward

Katana Abbott — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:53:29 +0000

“One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.” ~ Merle Shain We have all said to ourselves one-time-or-another, “If only this had not happened, my life would have been so much better.” Think about it. Then we end up brooding about it, mulling it over in our heads over and […]

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Four Simple Steps to More Ease and Flow in Your Life

Katana Abbott — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:18:59 +0000

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different” – C.S. Lewis As we move out of the COVID-19 pandemic and return to life as normal, you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed. Let’s talk about what you can do immediately to create a sense of ease and […]

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Why Our Retirement Will Be So Different Than Our Parents’

Katana Abbott — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 01:07:08 +0000

If you are contemplating what you will be doing and how you will fund retirement but have no idea how to make it come together, then you are not alone. There are over 73 million baby boomers who are pondering these same questions. Times have changed since I first started my career as a financial […]

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Why You Want to Understand Your Money Personality

Katana Abbott — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 20:17:24 +0000

I remember how difficult it was to talk to my husband about money when we were first married. We were so different. Every time I would bring up an idea for something that I wanted to do that involved money, he seemed to shut me down.

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Why It’s Time to Start Your 401(k) Checkup!

Katana Abbott — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:28:09 +0000

It is the perfect time to do your 401(k) checkup because you should be receiving annual statements and tax documents for your IRA and retirement plans. Please don’t just shove them in the envelope for the tax person. Instead, give those babies a real checkup! This article discusses why you want to know: What accounts […]

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Why Do New Year’s Resolutions Fail?

Katana Abbott — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:40:26 +0000

Studies have shown that approximately 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by the second week of February. That’s not good news if you want new results this year. Good habits, especially ones drastically different from typical lifestyles, are hard to get started and even harder to keep. Research shows that on average, it takes approximately 66 […]

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Release to Make Room to Receive

Katana Abbott — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:14:09 +0000

The Winter Solstice, or the shortest day of the year. I always celebrate this day with friends or loved ones because it is the perfect time to release anything that it not serving you as well as anything you do not want to take into the New Year! What makes this Winter Solstice so special […]

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