Wealthy? Check! Healthy? Not so much!

Maybe you saw the news article in your local paper this week from The Washington Post announcing that for the first time in a decade, the United States was crowned the world’s most competitive economy by the World Economic Forum in Davos. I wasn’t on their invitation list so I didn’t know it was going […]

How To Make Aging Work

I added to my hero list this week. During another boring 24-Hour Fitness workout this week, my aging I-pod Classic served up a James Altucher podcast interview with William Shatner of Startrek, Boston Legal, and Priceline fame. Now 87, Shatner looks 20-years younger and is living like his hair is on fire (yes, he still […]

Retirement: Where Good Habits Go to Die and Bad Habits Flourish.

    For starters this week, click on and read this humorous article “What Day Is it? The Muddled Confusion of a Recent Retiree.”  New blogger and recent retiree, Howard Fishman, takes a very refreshing swipe at the realities of transitioning from labor-to-leisure, vocation-to-vacation. Fishman makes a seminal statement in the article (the bolding  is […]

Regain Your Brain – for $79!!

Would $79 and 12 hours be too much for you to spend to avoid Alzheimer’s? If so, kill this blog and return to – whatever. Too close to home Alzheimer’s recently became a reality for my wife and me when the wife of a dear friend, half of a close 40-year friendship, was diagnosed with […]

The Thief Called “65”

I had phone conversations this past week with two middle-aged (50-ish) divorced professional women that had eerily similar undertones having to do with a critical life inflection point. These were two talented women who were facing similar challenges in re-entering the job market after an unexpected change in their professional employment status. It wasn’t surprising […]

Do You Want an ELF or HALF Retirement?

  My thanks to Joe Polish of Genius Network for the acronyms.  I’ve heard Joe refer to ELF and HALF repeatedly in his podcasts at 10xTalk.com as part of his teaching mantra for budding entrepreneurs. Joe simply asks them: Do you want your business to be Easy, Lucrative and Fun (ELF)? Or Hard, Annoying, Lame, […]