For many people, retirement is something to strive towards. Having the freedom to do what you’d like without reporting to a boss half your age or working a 9 to 5. While this all sounds great, is retirement really all it’s cracked up to be? We expect retirement to bring various freedoms, like the financial […]
Who Defines Us?What does your future story of aging look like?
The conversation you have with yourself and others in your generation will be ongoing and multifaceted, but an excellent starting point is to consider these questions: What does your future story of aging look like? When you think about getting older, how do you define what that means for you? Do you ever see yourself […]
Encore! Encore!
Midlife crisis. It is a term bandied about, which can conjure images of sports car purchases, new gym memberships, flirtations/affairs/divorces, botox and bikinis. Midlife is, for many, a time of transition, including whether or how to retire. It can be a time of more questions than answers, a time in which you feel less steady […]
Your Next Chapter a Guest Post by Jan Wieder
Your Next Chapter Life is supposed to be full of milestones. Things like graduation, getting married, buying a house, a new job or the birth of a child. Every self-help book that I have read recently, asks the question- what is your next move? The audiobooks that I listen to are challenging me to step […]
Goals: What’s the Secret?
In a blog post once by Seth Godwin, he makes an excellent point about why we sometimes don’t get very far in our endeavors, even when we are taking action every day. Often out of fear, our actions are either too small, too easy, to get us anywhere, or, out of our impatience, they are […]
How to Earn a Decent Income After Retirement
Please welcome to The Ageless Beat Blog, Baruch Leifer, who is talking about an amazing top. How to Earn a Decent Income After Retirement. “Old, not obsolete” Who said retirement means you should stop being active? Who said it should be boring? And who said it means less money and a depleting social life? Because […]
The Greatness Challenge: Excerpt
In this manifesto, I beseech you to belly up to the realization that we can no longer afford to rest on our laurels. The world is shifting to a different playing field, one New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says is “flattened by instant connectivity.” If we don’t wake up in time to retool for […]
The Silver Lining of the Graying of America
“I want to make every moment count.” “Life is short.” “It’s got to matter or why bother?” One of my clients exclaimed during one of our recent sessions, “Oh my G-d, I just got it… I have less time before me with my wife than we have behind us. We have got to change how […]
The Puppet Master is Powerful
Women tend to have the blessing and the curse of being invisible, especially as we approach 50 and beyond. The negative side of being invisible is the world no longer seems to notice or care about us or what we have to say—if they ever did in the first place. We seem to lose our voice […]
Right Angle Precession
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved. R. Buckminster Fuller Last weekend, I sat in the lazy Spring evening with a dear friend to say goodbye. We all gathered outside on the genteel front porch, surrounded by splashes of outrageous colors in wafting fragrance from their lovely- tended perennial […]
