My editor said I was crazy, but I did it anyway. As I was thinking about how to conclude my book, “Keys to a Successful Retirement”, I decided to issue […]
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Category: Retirement State of Mind
Because You Can
What are you capable of? Have you ever thought about the things you could do, if you decided to do them? We typically do less than we’re capable of doing. […]
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Growing Young – A Book Review
If there were a fountain of youth, would you drink from it? If you knew the secrets to “Growing Young” as you age, would you share them? I’ve learned some […]
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The Treehouse Writing Studio
Ever since roaming the woods of Michigan as a rambunctious child, I’ve dreamed of having a treehouse. I tried to build one when I was 10 years old, but the […]
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NVR BORD
I saw it as I was returning to our retirement cabin after a mountain biking ride. “How appropriate”, I thought. I loved it immediately. So…I decided to write about it. […]
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Ants vs. Grasshoppers
What, you may ask, does Ants vs. Grasshoppers have to do with retirement? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Stay tuned as we study a metaphor that applies to […]
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Is The Stock Market Going To Crash?
I recently received an email from a long-time reader that started with the following subject line: Subject: We Are About To Crash Again The email was basically asking “Is The […]
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The Value Of Free Speech
By design, my “platform” is apolitical. Always has been, and I hope it always will. That said, there comes a time when an issue is so pressing, so important, so critical, […]
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What 3 New Things Are You Going To Try In Retirement?
Shortly before I retired, I had dinner with a friend we’ll call Joe. I’d had a business relationship with Joe for 10 years and we had become friends. He went […]
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What I’ve Learned From Two Years of Retirement
Two years ago this week, I retired. When I was in my final few years of work I had an obsessive curiosity about what retirement was going to be like, […]
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