“We either ease into age or we’re disrupted by age. I don’t like the fact that I’m 82, but I can’t fight it – it’s better that I am 82 than I didn’t make it to 82. I keep going. I’m not going to stop. I still go to work every day. If I… Continue reading Time For a New Cultural Portal
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How To Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part Three
“ If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going.” Terry Pratchett, “I Shall Wear Midnight” I struggled this week to come up with meaningful content that would be a fitting and… Continue reading How To Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part Three
How to Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part Two
Last week, the first article of this three-part series on avoiding boomer boredom focused on (1) finding your essential self, (2) reintegrating yourself and (3) starting a lifestyle business. This week, we’ll take a look at three more boomer boredom fighters. Why all the concern about boredom? Boredom can lead to the development of… Continue reading How to Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part Two
How to Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part One
A Certified Financial Planner friend of mine shared a story over breakfast recently. One of his long-standing clients – let’s call him Jack – who had fully retired six months earlier called out of the blue with a plea for help. Having entered his retirement in great financial shape, his call went something like… Continue reading How to Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part One
Your Second Half Should Be Filled with These Four-letter Words
The second half of life (I’ll optimistically call it the 50-to-100 phase) is rife with both opportunity and challenge. It’s a time when social expectations expect us to begin to “wind down” rather than “rewind”; to “land” and not “take off”; to retire and not rewire; to retreat and not advance. It’s… Continue reading Your Second Half Should Be Filled with These Four-letter Words
Are You a Fugitive From Yourself?
“Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves — we can keep ourselves so busy, fill our lives with so many diversions, stuff our heads with so much knowledge, involve ourselves with so many people, and cover so much ground that we never have time to… Continue reading Are You a Fugitive From Yourself?
Avoiding Retirement Chaos
Wouldn’t it be terrible to find out that retirement can really suck? After all, you’ve shouldered through a grinding 30-40 year journey filled with marginally-motivating jobs and totally marginal bosses to get to this point. You’ve sacrificed most of your “today’s” for the “tomorrow” that your financial advisor’s constantly changing charts, graphs and… Continue reading Avoiding Retirement Chaos
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… Continue reading Good news! Millennials Can’t Retire!!
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.” … Continue reading On Climbing the Himalayas and Eating a Cobra’s Heart
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… Continue reading Pivot Your Retirement Before It Kills You!