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Five Benefits of Volunteering in Retirement
Volunteering your time and energy helps strengthen your community, but it also has important emotional and physical benefits.
With new studies being done, we are finding more and more benefits linked with volunteering, specifically when volunteering after retirement.
According to a study done by the Corporation for National and Community Service, Americans over the age of 60 that volunteered reported lower disability and higher levels of well-being compared to those who did not volunteer. read more…
Retirement Education – Why Learning Shouldn’t Stop
Why is retirement education an issue? Here you are, entering the world of retirement, and more likely than not, you are looking at this new horizon as some sort of finish line. You’ve gotten plenty of education, you lived out your career, and here you are at one of the most highly anticipated parts of your life. read more…
What Needs Will Your Business Fulfill in Retirement?
What’s the most important thing to consider as you transition into retirement?
The obvious answer is making sure you’re financially stable…
…but what about after that?
Then what?
Work demanded so much of your time and provided more than just money to you. read more…
The Benefits of Simply Getting Outside
Americans now spend an alarming 93 percent of their time indoors, despite the benefits of getting outside.
We have become an indoor species, which is having consequences on our physical and mental health.
Staying inside is detrimental on its own, especially since indoor air can be 5 times more polluted than outdoor air. We’re also often sedentary and tethered to a digital device while inside. read more…
Planning Your Retirement Finances
It’s time to get your retirement finances in order but you don’t know where to start. Your biggest asset is your 401k so do you start with retirement planning? But then you think about the other money you have in real estate, a college savings account and at the bank. You begin to wonder if you need a financial plan instead? Then you start to think about what you want to do in retirement. Do you want to travel, have a mobile lifestyle or simply sit back at home and perfect your hobbies? Which plan does that fit into? read more…
Single and Retired – 5 Steps to Prepare
As you reach the end of your career, it is imperative that you begin to look into the next steps of life, especially if you are single and retired. However, many overlook the simple fact that retirement does not look the same for everybody — especially those who are single.
A stereotypical American life can often be defined as growing up, getting an education, pursuing your career, and more often than not, getting married. But for those who are perhaps divorced, or have made the choice to remain single, this path of life is not the one they chose. read more…
Have a Happy Retirement (or Not): It’s Your Choice
I bet the title of this article got your attention. You may have immediately agreed with the premise. However, there will be many people who claim that it is not their choice of whether to have a happy retirement because the circumstances of their life make it impossible.
I talk to a fair amount of people who are either in, or about to enter, the retirement zone, and when I suggest that they have control over their retirement happiness, I hear things like: read more…
COVID-19 – Could This Be A Dress Rehearsal For Retirement?
As some of the pandemic restrictions are slowly lifting you can feel a big shared sign of relief.
As people slowly return to some of their regular activities (even though modified either through social distancing or wearing of masks), it would be a shame if we didn’t look for some lessons that we may have learned during this experience.
And this includes retirement. read more…
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