3 months ago
Can Retiring Overseas Help You to Live a Longer, Healthier Life? These Experts Say Yes!
Are you approaching retirement age and mulling your options? Or someone already there, but realizing that life after 60 isn’t quite as you imagined it, and neither is retirement?
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3 months ago
Choose Refirement Rather Than Vintage Retirement! These 7 Questions Will Help You Find Your Direction
This January, I’ll start my 74th year. I’m part of a large aging population in America. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2030, all baby boomers like me will be older than 65…
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3 months ago
What Are You Doing for Your “Summer Vacation” (Which Is the Rest of Your Life)?
The day was very dusty, and as always happens in Mongolia, very windy. In a huge bowl surrounded by cliffs and mountains near Uglii, the small city where the main Eagle Festival takes place at the beginning of the Central Asian winter…
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3 months ago
Are You Nostalgic or Depressed as You Retire from Work?
During times of transition, feelings of nostalgia are pronounced. We yearn for what was. Bonding with colleagues at work. Evenings at the pub with good friends. Precious, fleeting moments with children and family…
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3 months ago
How Our Gamble on Retirement in Thailand Paid Off
Retiring at 53 was a gamble. My husband Michael and I left good jobs, friends, and family, sold our lovely house and garden and said goodbye to the security and benefits of life back home for a new life in Thailand…
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4 months ago
Life After 60 May Just Be the Most Productive – It’s All About Perfect Timing
“Happiness climbs high early in adulthood but begins to slide downward in the late thirties and early forties, dipping to a low in the fifties. But we recover quickly from this slump…”
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4 months ago
3 Ways Retiring Abroad Can Enrich Your Finances (and 2 Financial Traps to Look Out for!)
Face it. Nothing will have as much impact on your retirement as where you spend it.But what if retiring in place would require sticking to a bare-bones budget just to prevent you from outlasting your money?
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4 months ago
Do You Look at Retirement as the Right Time to Engage and Unleash Your Daemon? Maybe You Should!
In David Brooks’ The Second Mountain – A Quest for a Moral Life, he writes about the daemon. What Is the DAEMON? “A daemon is a calling, an obsession, a source of lasting and sometimes manic energy…
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4 months ago
How Life After Retirement is Like Being a Student Again
As ready as I was to leave my 8-7 (it was never 9-5) world after a successful and satisfying career, I had the usual feelings that many people experience upon the phenomenon our society calls retirement. No one tells you that retirement takes processing. It’s not a day in your life; it’s a transition.
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5 months ago
Living on a Cruise Ship: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
On the surface, living on a cruise ship sounds like heaven. Just imagine. It’s 7am and you are awoken by the sunrise and the sounds of sea birds. You stretch, throw on a robe and make your way to your balcony. Moments later, your husband returns with two cappuccinos and a carafe of fresh orange juice. Read More
