Retirement feature: retirement expectations

Do you have a vision of finishing your working life, with career achievements and goals safely tucked away, and moving to a more leisurely lifestyle, maybe a home at the sea, spending time with grand kids, eating out a bit more, maybe travelling to see all those places you didn’t have the time while you were working?
Have you considered how realistic those expectations against what you are currently doing financially to secure this?
Michael Avery speaks to Dave Crawford of planning retirement, about what he has found when it comes to people’s expectations of retirement versus the reality. And how to improve the dismal outcomes.