When I made my final corporate relocation and moved to Denver in 1979, I ensconced our family in a house at the top of an 11-house cul-de-sac where we remained for 21 years. It was a tight little community with, at one point, 23 kids under the age of 11. You can visualize what a… Continue reading WARNING! Your Retirement May Be a Cul-De-Sac
Category: Retirement
Escaping Your Cultural Captors – Your Portal May Be Pooping On Your Potential!
Have you ever thought of yourself as being in a “cultural fishbowl?” News alert! You’re in one! If you’re 16, you are in a cultural fishbowl with the world watching to see how well you manage your rebelliousness and bone-headedness. If you are 60, your cultural fishbowl is being watched by a crowd with a… Continue reading Escaping Your Cultural Captors – Your Portal May Be Pooping On Your Potential!
Whew! Good News About Being 60!
My mom didn’t make it to 60. She gave it up to lymphoma at age 57. Dad had a heart attack two years later at 59 and made it to 80, enduring 21 years of extended chronic illness. My grandparents all checked out in their 60s and 70s. I remember a Parade magazine article a… Continue reading Whew! Good News About Being 60!
What Type of Retiree Are You – or Do You Want to Be?
A few months ago, as a favor for a friend, I did a webinar entitled “What’s Next? Redefining Retirement and Creating Power and Purpose in Your Post-career Life” for one of the local Christian Living Communities’ senior-living facilities. Not exactly my “target market” since my focus is more on folks who are approaching, or… Continue reading What Type of Retiree Are You – or Do You Want to Be?
Should Your Retirement Include Continuing to Work? Only If Health and Longevity Are Important.
Working during retirement. Hmm. Isn’t that an anachronism? Retire, by definition, means to “retreat” or “seek a place of security and seclusion” or, as my Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it, “withdraw from use or service.” Who wants to be useless? Fewer and fewer are buying it. It turns out working during retirement has been trending up… Continue reading Should Your Retirement Include Continuing to Work? Only If Health and Longevity Are Important.
Five Critical Steps to Thriving Within Your Longevity Bonus
You’ve heard it a thousand times. We’re living longer. Yay! We extended our average lifespan more in 110 years than we did in the previous 100,000 years. That’s quite a hockey-stick performance. Makes you wonder why we waited so long. What was so magic about the 20th century? I guess you could say that a… Continue reading Five Critical Steps to Thriving Within Your Longevity Bonus
You’re Over 50 and On The Back-Nine. How Are You Going to Play It?
For the last few summers, I’ve been playing golf in a senior men’s league at a local muni. It’s a mid-week event, so this group is mostly retirees mixed with a few business owners who can step away from their businesses for a day. This is truly a geriatric bunch – the average age is… Continue reading You’re Over 50 and On The Back-Nine. How Are You Going to Play It?
Work Yourself to Death? Not a Bad Idea!
I happened across an old article recently about “the oldest working CEO in the United States.” It was about Jack A. Weill, founder and CEO of Rockmount Ranchwear, a Denver-based manufacturer of western wear. Jack died in 2008 at 109. He was working as the CEO of Rockmount at 106, showing up daily for four… Continue reading Work Yourself to Death? Not a Bad Idea!
“R” Words Are Important – Here’s Five That We Need For Our “Second-half”
In June 2018, I posted a blog that became one of my more popular posts. It’s entitled “Your Second Half Should Be Filled With These Four-letter Words” – click on it and become enlightened (How’s that for a dose of arrogance?) It even became one of the more popular blogs on Next Avenue for several weeks.… Continue reading “R” Words Are Important – Here’s Five That We Need For Our “Second-half”
Post COVID, Can We “Be Better Than Before?” Yes! Here’s How.
Last week was an interesting and somewhat grueling week for me, attending back-to-back, multi-day virtual conferences for two separate organizations I’m affiliated with. These were high-level conferences that one would normally fly to and pay dearly for hotel, meals, et. al. Both were amazingly effective – the technology, with a few minor hiccups, worked amazingly… Continue reading Post COVID, Can We “Be Better Than Before?” Yes! Here’s How.