In Insider's Real Retirement series, we ask regular people approaching or in retirement what they'd wished they'd known about being prepared to stop working.
The retirees featured below reached the finish line, but they made and saw some mistakes along the way.
In Business Insider's Real Retirement series, retirees share their best advice on retirement, what worked for them, and sometimes, what didn't work for them.
"Find a good financial planner or retirement planner," he said, "and begin to taper off your equity allocation, aiming towards 40% or 50% when you retire."
Don't put off savingDavid Fisher, who retired at 65, didn't think much about retirement when he was younger.