Good news!  Millennials Can’t Retire!!

    Looks like the media and the financial planning industry is getting their knickers into knots about the prospect of millennials being unable to retire.  The headline for this article from Next Avenue  is certainly an attention getter: “The Bleak Retirement Outlook for Boomer’s Kids.” If you are one who still clings to the […]

The Dirty Dozen of Accelerated Aging

  News alert!! You’re going to die.  Get used to it! But don’t get so used to it that you make it happen faster than it needs to. One hundred years ago, we accepted our short life-spans as fate, God’s will.  Until the last half-century or so, death was largely random and immutable.  It was […]

On Climbing the Himalayas and Eating a Cobra’s Heart

Don’t you hate it when someone says or writes something that you wish you had said or written? The more I research to write, the more it happens to me.  And it happened again today. I surfed into an article this morning by Jonathan Look entitled “The Magic of Leaving Your Comfort Zones in Retirement.”  […]

Pivot Your Retirement Before It Kills You!

A generation ago, IBM did a study of their pensioners and found that their average retiree didn’t make it past the 24th pension check. John E. Lang, a petroleum engineer and 45-year employee of a single oil company, succumbed to a heart attack in his sleep 10 months after receiving his gold watch – and […]

Can we get any sillier than this?

    “Hostess Brands, known for fare like Twinkies and Ding Dongs, is making a successful foray into more upscale treats. The company posted surprisingly strong earnings on Thursday, along with an upbeat forecast, sending shares on their biggest rally ever. The snack maker credited the rollout of the Hostess Bakery Petites line, which has […]

Are You Headed for Life’s “Dinosaur Floor”?

  There’s a story told by author Mitch Anthony in his book “The New Retirementality” of a Fortune 100 company in New York City that has a floor at their executive office complex that is referred to as the “dinosaur floor.”  Reportedly, it is a floor where executive managers in their 50’s or 60’s whose contributions […]