Planning for a successful retirement involves solving a multitude of both financial and non-financial issues. Even if you’ve reached your “number,” you still must successfully navigate several emotional and psychological hurdles to achieve a satisfying retirement. Here’s what you need to know.

In the five years leading up to retirement, you’ll have more financial decisions to make than at any other time in your life! And they’ll be some of the biggest and most important decisions ever! Get them right, and you can save hundreds of thousands of dollars; blow them, and you can lose just as much. So having a well-thought-out financial game plan is a critical first step to a financially secure retirement.

But there’s much more to it than that! Recently...