Retirement Coping Skills Most People Don’t Know They Need

Retirement planning involves more than building savings, because daily structure, social connections, spending habits, and personal purpose can shape life after work just as much – Shutterstock

Retirement coping skills rarely appear in a financial plan. Yet retirement can change your daily structure, social life, spending habits, identity, and even your sense of time.

That creates a strange situation. Someone can prepare carefully for retirement and still feel completely unprepared for Tuesday morning.