Prepare for Life After Retirement: 6 Ways to Find Meaning and Purpose for this Stage of Life
We want a happy, stress-free life after retirement. However, many of us also want a meaningful life. Find out how to plan for a meaningful retirement.
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8 Ideas for How to Thrive as You Navigate the Murky Transition to Retirement
Heading into retirement can be a difficult in-between-time. Here are 15 ideas for how to thrive as you navigate the transition.
Retirement Travel Trends and Tips for Funding Your Wanderlust
Do you dream of retirement travel? You aren’t alone and for good reason. Here’s a riddle for you: Question: What is the one thing you can buy in retirement that will make you richer, not poorer? Answer: Retirement travel Whether you are planning a weekend trip to visit family or around the world expedition, travel…
Volunteering in Retirement: 6 Tips for Making an Impact
If volunteering in retirement sounds appealing to you, you are not alone. More than ever, workers over 50 are looking toward careers in the nonprofit world, seeking a second chance at purposeful work. In fact, according to Encore.org, more than 25 million Americans ages 50 to 70 are eager to share their skills, passions and…
Am I Ready to Retire? The 8 Unexpected Skills You Need for a Happy Secure Future
If you are asking, “Am I ready to retire?” Here is some good news: you don’t necessarily need $1 million dollars for a successful retirement. So, what you do need? We did a little digging and here are 8 important skills that will enable you to achieve financial security, health and the best most secure…
What is Your Retirement Manifesto?
A manifesto is a declaration of an individual or group’s intentions and motivations. Most big life events involve some kind of manifesto — whether you call it that or not. Contracts, wedding vows, and employment agreements are all declarations of your intent. Retirement is actually an ideal time to write a manifesto. Retirement is your…
3 Okinawan Secrets to a Long Life: 1) Ikigai 2) Moai 3) Hara Hachi Bu — Huh?
Some might believe that the hokey pokey really is what it is all about. Yoga and mindfulness mavens chant “om” as a long and happy life mantra. Others sing super cali fragilistic expealidocious and, “if said loud enough,” will at least sound precocious. However, the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa have other words…
How to Boost 4 Different Happiness Hormones through Financial Planning
Most people think of financial planning as a source of stress. If this is you, I have news for you: you have it ALL wrong. Creating and following a financial plan is a great way to REDUCE your stress. In fact, financial planning activities are guaranteed to release the four key hormones –dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin…
Be Happy: 10 Ways to Worry Less About Your Retirement
Don’t worry, be happy… about your retirement. The last few months have been an emotional rollercoaster for many people, and you may be feeling constantly stressed about your finances. You’re probably asking yourself, do I have enough money to be happy in retirement? If you are worried, you’re not alone. According to a survey conducted…
11 Bold Fun Tips to Help You Plan and Enjoy Retirement: Make it Awesomely Satisfying!
An enjoyable retirement is the goal, right? You work your whole life and hopefully create and follow a plan so that you can kick back and do what you want to do when the time comes. Well, a recent survey from Nationwide suggests that all is not going according to plan for many retirees. The…
Growing Old is Optional! 14 Stories of Amazing Accomplishments by People Older than You
Age is just a number. In fact, even the word “old” means less and less these days as many of us stay healthy and active well past the traditional retirement age of 65. Is 80 the new 40? Or, is 100 a better benchmark age for enjoying life and achieving interesting things? Preparing for retirement…
The Right Kind of Stress for a Secure, Happy and Relaxed Retirement
When most people think about financial and retirement planning, feelings of stress, worry, and anxiety rise in our throats. This stress — while unpleasant — exists for good reason. Stress serves a purpose. Less than 50% of people have a written retirement plan. The majority of people simply don’t have enough saved for this time…
What You Might Have in Common with Retiring Olympic Athletes
A new documentary, The Weight of Gold, explores the many mental health challenges that retired Olympic athletes face. You might be surprised to learn that those challenges are similar to what happens at retirement to many people in far more mundane jobs. Retired Olympic athletes – and anyone who has retired from a job where…
Books About Retirement and Aging
Personal finance, investments and much more. Find fiction and many books on achieving a meaningful, happy, healthy and successful retirement.
20 Best New Retirement Books for Summer Reading 2020
The summer of 2020 hasn’t felt much like a summer since we’ve been working from home and not traveling since March. Whether you’re going on an all-American road trip in August, making s’mores in the backyard, or even if your vacation plans have been put on hold till 2021, these new and newly updated retirement…
19 Best TED Talks on Retirement and Aging to Help You Have a Better Future
You want to have a better retirement. But how do you get there? You could spend hours researching the latest science behind happiness, personal finance and investment theory, and health research. Or you can take a few minutes to watch the best TED Talks related to retirement. With their engaging speakers and easy-to-digest format, even…
The Secret to a Happy Retirement? A Schedule!
Before retirement, life has a predictable routine. Work takes priority, and oftentimes everything else is scheduled around it. From laundry to mowing the lawn, many people plan and keep a routine so that everything gets done. After retirement, there’s nothing but time! So, it might seem that schedules aren’t crucial. But a routine might be…
How (and Why) to Blog Your Retirement
Some of us retire with a clear purpose in mind. Others of us are anxious to escape the daily grind of work, but we are less sure about how exactly we want to spend our new-found leisure time. Either way, why not blog your retirement? More and more seniors are tech-savvy enough to start their…
Surprising Tips for a Happy Retirement
After the stress of building careers and raising kids, most people’s happiness seems to start increasing at around age 65. And, we keep getting happier until it peaks at around age 85. Want to do a little extra to make sure you have a happy retirement? Try these tips: Think About Your Death Yes, you…
What You Can Learn From Millennials for a Better Retirement
According to the Pew Research Center and the U.S. Census Bureau, Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest living generation. There may be a lot of them, but what can this modern generation tell us about having a better retirement? It turns out that some of their ideas will work quite well for those…
6 Ways a Life Coach Can Improve Your Retirement
You’ve saved money, but are you really ready for retirement? Using a life coach for retirement might sound crazy, but it’s not. While some people prepare for the financial aspects of retirement, it is not clear how many people develop clear plans for the non-financial aspects. Both are important. A financial advisor or an online…
Loneliness Is as Dangerous as Smoking and Stress
Research shows that feeling lonely is a big risk factor for heart attack, clogged arteries, and stroke. In fact, the dangers of loneliness are on par with obesity, light smoking, and anxiety. A study published in the British medical research journal BMJ found that feeling lonely, or being socially isolated, increases your risk by 29%…
124 Retirement Quotes: Funny Retirement Quotes, Inspirational Retirement Quotes and More!
You’ll Laugh (or Cry) When You Read These Famous Quotations About Retirement. As you plan retirement, figure out what to say in a retirement card or write a retirement speech, you will enjoy reading funny retirement quotes, inspirational retirement quotes and much more about this wonderful phase of life. Browse all famous retirement quotes below,…
65 Funny Quotes About Getting Older and Quotes About Aging
These funny quotes about getting older and quotes about aging should serve as inspiration for enjoying this remarkable time of life. Funny Quotes About Getting Older “Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” Kitty O’Neill Collins “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things…
How to Start a Retirement Club: Plan for a Happier Wealthier Future
Feeling excited, overwhelmed or unsure about retirement? Start a retirement club!We all need help with our retirement plans but very few of us turn to friends for that support. A retirement club — kind of like a book club where you discuss retirement topics instead of novels — can provide an ideal and friendly forum…