Will Your Retirement Make You a Victim of Newton’s First Law of Motion?

What are the chances that your Certified Financial Planner would have learned about Newton’s First Law of Motion in insurance sales school?  You know, the Law that says ” -an object at rest remains at rest and an object in motion remains in motion with the same velocity unless acted upon by an unbalancing force.” […]

Can We Get to 85 Without Any Ailments? An Opinion.

I’m forced to take a shortcut this week because of a tough schedule. So, I’m borrowing an article I posted on Quora a few months ago that garnered over 50,000 views. It was in response to the question: How can one live 85 years without any ailments? I offered my opinion: It’s not likely you […]

A New Model for Aging: Subtract 20 Years From Your Chronological Age.

I pulled another book at random off my “A” shelf this week as I wait for Amazon to deliver my latest new book purchase. It turns out the book’s kind of an oldie, published in 1999. As I began my reread, I quickly realized why it was on the “A” shelf even with that publication […]

What is the biggest failure in modern health? Maybe not what you think?

I recently was monitoring an online forum on the topic “Why is our healthcare system failing us?” It generated some interesting responses, some of them a bit out in “woo-woo” land. Here’s a sampling: Mega health mergers Big data Obamacare 2.0 Private practice doctors trapped in a completely perverted “fee for service” mode. Drug corporations […]

What was a choice you made that completely changed your life? Here’s mine. What’s yours?

What was a choice you made that completely changed your life? This question was posted recently on Quora.com. I was intrigued by it and decided to pen out a response. I had to think hard because, after chewing up nearly all of eight decades, there have been just a few choices along the way. The […]

Do You Have an Exit Strategy Built Into Your Retirement Plan?

Exit strategy from your retirement? No, I’m not talking about prepaid funeral expenses/burial plots or DNR/power-of-attorney stuff. I’m talking about a retirement strategy that includes a contingency plan should (when) the euphoria of a leap from labor-to-leisure fades and one finds themselves wading into the hidden perils of a self-indulgent, leisure-based retirement. OK, I understand […]