Based on years of experience in the employment field, and augmented by the inexhaustible sources of information from numerous resources, I offer you a review of RETIREMENT PLANNING that you can consider and compare against whatever retirement efforts you may have already undertaken. In this review, we'll identify the real advantages and details of sound retirement planning elements that many millions of employees and self-employed individuals rely on as a regular part of their workplace experience.

Those elements below will be in the form of questions and queries about your current status relating to the elements. Your answers will reveal how effecient, or not, your retirement planning has evolved. If your answers are lacking, then the questions themselves expose a map to implement a sound retirement strategy to fit your circumstances.

To start, lets consider PRIMARY ACTIONS one should consider for a secure retirement:

1. Create your individual retirement needs list.
2. Begin a step-by-step plan for reaching those retirement goals.
3. Assess your current assets.
4. Begin to build up savings.
5. Find good professional financial advisers
6. Learn about how to make the most of tax strategies

Let's look closer at what the government has to say about it; from the Pentagon Federal Credit Union: