The Importance of Work in Retirement – A Video

Reid Stone is a friend and fellow retirement coach.  He extended me the honor of inviting me to be the first guest on his newly launched podcast at his home base website www.mylifesencore.com. Click here to go to the page on his site to view the 23-minute video interview.  We chose to talk about the […]

Does Your Life-planning Go Beyond the Actuarial Tables?  It should.

In my multiple roles as recruiter, retirement coach, and career transition specialist, I have the good fortune to talk with some amazing, talented and successful people who have entered into their “third age” of life.  That’s the new extended and unchartered territory between the end of mid-career jobs and parenting duties and the beginning of […]

The Case for Not Overusing Our Cheeks.

  “Sitting for More Than 13 Hours a Day May Sabotage the Benefits of Exercise” I really didn’t need to see this headline!  Thanks, New York Times, for this ugly reminder. Then there was this sub-title in the article: People who sat for long periods and took fewer than 4,000 steps a day developed metabolic […]

Why Centenarians Don’t Rely on Doctors.

Photo by Martin Brosy on Unsplash I did an 18-minute speech recently at my Toastmasters club – the last of 40 “formal” speeches that I’m required to give on my quest to achieve the top Toastmasters achievement tier, Distinguished Toastmaster. I estimate I’ve delivered half again as many “informal” speeches at the club so I’m probably 60-70 speeches […]

Keep Working? Or Retire? Consider the Middle Road.

Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash Where in the handbook of life (you have one, don’t you?)  does it say that career and work have to end by a certain age? If you do find your handbook, dust it off and look at the publish date.  If your copy is an heirloom from pre-FDR (and the old, non-green […]

Aging Doesn’t Need to Be a B****

I hear it a couple of times every week: “Getting old is a bitch!” Or the overworked, less profane version: “Getting old isn’t for sissies!” Occasionally, someone will resort to an attempt at the comedic approach and borrow the classic: “If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken […]