Design Your Retirement Before It Designs You
I have been sitting with this one for a while, because it annoyed me before it clarified itself. A while back, I started noticing something in the conversations I was having with people in their late 40s and 50s. Smart people. Experienced people. People who had given decades to their careers and were starting to think – quietly, carefully, sometimes...
Picture this. It’s a Sunday afternoon sometime in the 1990s. Your dad is in his armchair – newspaper, cup of tea, television on in the background. He’s worked the same job for 30 years. He has a pension. He knows exactly what retirement looks like because everyone around him retired the same way. He’ll be fine. Now, picture yourself. You’re...
Last Tuesday morning, I was out walking my dog when I spotted Margaret coming the other direction with Charlie, her scruffy terrier mix. Same time as always – 6 AM sharp. Charlie and my dog did their usual sniff-and-circle routine while Margaret and I chatted. “You’re consistent,” I said. “Same time every day.” “Oh, Charlie doesn’t give me a choice,”...
Remember when we thought the future would bring us flying cars, robot maids, and a three-day work week? Well, Gen X, we may not have the flying cars, but early retirement is actually on the table. The question is: should you take it? If you’re a Gen Xer staring down the possibility of early retirement, you’re probably experiencing a unique...
I need to tell you something personal. Something that drives everything I do. It’s about my parents. The Slow Decline My parents are in their late 70s. They spend their days in front of the TV – usually angry at the news. Their main social interactions are with the grocery delivery person and the caregiver who checks on them twice...
In my line of work, where I encounter new faces and engage in fresh conversations every day, I’ve noticed a recurring theme. It seems that regardless of their backgrounds or circumstances, everyone I meet shares a common desire for a better life. They possess dreams and aspirations, and deep down, they know that achieving these dreams is within their reach...
If you are like me, you want to change some parts of your life. You know what you want. You know what you have to change. You may even know how to achieve it. What you donโt know is how to get over the big mountain between you and where you want to be. If you feel this way, you...
A career change later in life is no longer the unconventional, taboo concept it once was. We hear about such shifts daily, be it listening to a podcast from a sales trainer turned entrepreneur billionaire, reading about how a mother went from changing diapers to starting a multi-million business, or our parents telling us they’ve decided to take their newfound...
I want a career change! How did I end up here? This is not how I wanted to spend my life! What can I do about this? I feel stuck! Who can help me find what I was meant to do? Have you ever felt like part of life to which you no longer belong? It might have once been...
“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”– Brene Brown The world celebrates individuality and uniqueness. Modern-day media platforms seem to constantly promote authenticity, bombarding us with advertisements and infomercials convincing us to make a meaningful...