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Retire Retirement
2008-03-14 00:00:00 Postponing retirement by 5 years will increase your eventual retirement income by 56%. And it'll add a trillion $$ per year to the US Social Security fund, wiping out the deficit by 2045. So wrote Bob Moos in the Financial... More About: Retirement , Retire
Employers Need to Innovate to Retain Seasoned Employees
2008-03-14 00:00:00 Do you want to continue to work for income past "retirement" age? Are you prepared to entirely relinquish the joys (and frustrations) of your workplace even if you believe you have enough money to live on comfortably for the next... More About: Employees , Employers
Dying Well by Living Well: an Inspirational Video
2008-03-06 14:58:00 Don't be put off by the title: this video has messages for living at any age. It also calls us to consider what legacy we are leaving for our progeny. Oprah invited Randy Pausch, a man who looks to be in his 40s, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and father of 3 young children to give his last lecture on her show. His last lecture...because he has only months to live. He's dying from metastatic pancreatic cancer. He tells us how to live. Here are some of the gems from the video. He talks about having been a kid who had dreams. Dreams of being in the NFL. That didn't happen. "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted," he likes to say. When a coach pushed him mercilessly, he learned: people only pay that much attention to you if they care, if they think you're worth it; if they didn't, they'd ignore you. Use the attention and be grateful for it, even though it might hurt. As a kid, he dreamed of being a Disney imagineer. After 1... More About: Video , Inspirational , Living , Dying
Create Brain Resources to Protect From Losing It
2008-03-05 00:00:00 Do you (or your parents) worry about losing your marbles when you grow older? Do you have a family history of Alzheimer's? Or, are there old people in your family who are so sharp that you hope you have their... More About: Resources , Brain , Create
Review of Arrien's The 2nd Half of Life
2008-03-01 00:00:00 Angeles Arrien, cultural anthropologist, educator and consultant has given us a book filled with the spiritual wisdom of many cultures. In The Second Half of Life : Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom, she tempts us to go deep inside ourselves... More About: Review
Learning Adventures with Like-Minded People
2008-02-26 00:00:00 Do you relish the opportunity to learn about the lives and history of people all over the world from local experts? Do you like to have time to investigate the area on your own? Do you want to travel and... More About: People , Learning , Adventures
Purpose of "Purpose" in Finding Meaning in Later Life
2008-02-24 00:00:00 Purpose is our reason for being. We all have a sense within us about our life's calling. Most of us don't look for it, listen to it, or act on it. Once we discover our purpose, though, it directs and... More About: Life , Meaning , Purpose
Take Your Grandchild or Young Friend on Your Next Travel Adventure
2008-02-24 00:00:00 Do you enjoy hiking, biking, horseback riding in exotic parts of the world? Or getting to know how people live in Vietnam, in Tazakstan, in Argentina? Take your grandchild or niece or young friend with you the next time for... More About: Travel , Adventure , Friend , Young
Still In Love, Despite Being Married Long
2008-02-15 00:00:00 Have you and your honey been together for decades and still feel that rush of pleasure when you see each other at the end of the day... or when you open your eyes in the morning? That's the ideal coupledom,... More About: Love , Long , Married
Plan Your Retirement with a Life Planning Professional
2008-02-14 00:00:00 Lily Tomlin said: "All my life, I wanted to be somebody. Now I see I should have been more specific." Meg Newhouse, life planning consultant, began the article, "Some Change Should Be Plan ned," in Aging Well Magazine with Tomlin's quote,... More About: Life , Retirement , Planning , Professional
How to Retain Your Job as You Shift Gears
2008-02-12 00:00:00 Almost one-half of 150 senior executives in 1000 major American companies state that the most significant event for corporations in the next decade will be Baby Boomers' coming of age to retire. This statistic is based on a survey developed... More About: Shift , Gears
Changing Course: Navigating Life After 50 - a Book Review
2008-01-05 00:00:00 Did you assume you did most of your developing, growing, changing in your so-called formative years? Did you think your personality, style, "M.O." were set in stone by the time you entered your fifties? Most authors in the retirement planning... More About: Life , Book Review , Review , Book , Changing
Purpose is Good Medicine in the 2nd Half of Life
2007-12-28 00:00:00 What makes you want to get out of bed in the morning? Author, coach, and motivational speaker Richard Leider asked us at the Positive Aging conference at Eckard College in St. Petersburg this month. When we expand our horizons and... More About: Life , Medicine , Purpose , Good , Half
Better Brain Because of Aging, Not Despite It
2007-12-26 00:00:00 Gene Cohen, MD, MPH, the multi-talented geriatric researcher, participated in the Positive Aging Conference I attended in Florida. Here's some take-aways from his talks: The new "senior moment" can involve taking new risks, an inner comfort to try something new,... More About: Brain
Self-Reflection and Giving Back Mark 3rd Age Development
2007-12-26 00:00:00 How many of you think of aging as a time of withdrawal, slowing down, "senior moments" of forgetfulness, turkey throats, aching muscles the day after exercise? Time to change your thinking, said Dr. Gene Cohen as keynote speaker at the... More About: Development , Back , Giving , Reflection , Mark
Retirement is Becoming Both Longer and Shorter
2007-12-26 00:00:00 "Retirement involves more years...Retirement involves fewer years." How can both be true? Helen Dennis, nationally known specialist in retirement, employment, and aging, spoke at the 1st Positive Aging Conference this month and told us how these opposites can be true.... More About: Tire
Proposition for A New Model for Living Well
2007-12-19 00:00:00 Here's another goodie from the inspirational Positive Aging Conference I attended in St. Pete's, FL last week. You know what? I'm getting to the point where I no longer cringe at the word "aging." Here's one of the reasons why.... More About: Living , Model , Prop , Position
Find Meaningful "Work" After "Retirement"
2007-12-16 00:00:00 Perhaps you were fortunate enough to do what you considered to be meaningful work during your mid-years' employment. Many people, however, felt compelled to go into a field or take a job for practical reasons, to satisfy a need to... More About: Retirement , Work , Find , Meaningful , Tire
Turn Back the Clock on Aging, No Matter What Your Age
2007-12-16 00:00:00 Dr. Steven Masley, Director of the Florida clinic called Ten Years Younger talked to us at the Positive Aging Conference last week about how to turn back the clock on aging. If you've thought that your body, energy, and cognitive... More About: Clock , Back , Matter , Turn
Retire Traditional Retirement
2007-11-27 00:00:00 How can society make use of the skills and experience of over-50 adults who might otherwise think of retiring? A new poll commissioned by Experience Wave aims to create and promote policies that encourage older Americans to continue to contribute... More About: Retirement , Retire , Traditional , Tire
Purpose of "Purpose" in Finding Meaning in Later Life
2007-11-20 00:00:00 "Purpose dramatically affects aging," said life coach Richard Leider, about a keynote he plans at the new LearningLife Center at the University of Minnesota. Purpose gives us longer, healthier, happier lives. The extent to which we can find our life's... More About: Meaning
Can We Get Fit Even Though We Haven't Been Before?
2007-11-18 00:00:00 Ever hear of SeDS? Sedentary Death Syndrome? I never did, but it's a collection of 35 diseases that kill 250,000 Americans, separately from cancer and heart disease. It includes arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis. Get the idea? How to avoid SeDS? Exercise...
Does Paid Volunteerism Appeal to You?
2007-11-12 00:00:00 You might think that when you "retire" you will volunteer for a cause or organization that's always drawn your interest...tutoring inner-city kids, or global warming, or domestic violence. You probably feared that despite your expertise, you'd end up stuffing envelopes... More About: Paid , Appeal
More Fitness Focus
2007-10-31 00:00:00 Boomers lead the way to new gym memberships in the US, wrote Rebecca Ruiz in Forbes.com. Over 55s joining gyms went up 314% between 1990-2005, whereas 18-34 year olds increased only 39%! Yes, over 55s might have more time now... More About: Fitness , Focus
Legacies From My Brother, RB Kitaj
2007-10-31 00:00:00 Today, October 29th, my brother, who called himself "Kitaj" in his last decades, would have been 75. Many have written about his life and work in the past week. Jed Perl wrote a meaningful piece, called "Impassioned" in The New... More About: Brother , My Brother
Fitness for the Over-Fifty Crowd
2007-10-29 00:00:00 We're accustomed to media coverage of fitness for the Gen Xers and even for post-maternity and for weight loss. Now it's time to hear about what the over-50 set needs to remain fit and athletic into old age. The Wall... More About: Fitness , Crowd , The O
Remembering My Brother, the Artist RB Kitaj
2007-10-29 00:00:00 This past Sunday, October 21, was one of the most gorgeous days I've ever encountered in New England. My husband and I were taking our horses for a trail ride down a steep embankment and ran them up a dirt... More About: Artist , Brother , My Brother , Remembering , The Artist
Reinventing the Second Act of Life...the After 60s
2007-10-29 00:00:00 Ellen Goodman is one of my favorite journalists...my husband and I even quoted from a column of hers at our wedding 25 years ago, as 2nd marrieds, both of us. Now Goodman has aged with us and talks to us... More About: Life
How About Parlaying Your Writing Skills into a New Retirement Business?
2007-10-23 00:00:00 Stan Spector, author of Baby Boomers' Official Guide to Retirement Income: Over 100 Part-Time or Seasonal Business es for the New Retiree, offers ideas about how to use your writing skills to create additional retirement income, fun and challenge. And you... More About: Writing , Skills , Sine
Former CEOs Become Executive Consultants Through Vistage
More articles from this author:2007-10-22 00:00:00 Accomplished CEOs choose a "life of significance" after retiring. Rather than lolling around on a beach or country club, they want to give back to their community by offering consultation to their younger counterparts. Vistage provides facilitation training to 500+... More About: Executive , Consultants , Ulta 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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