Archive for the ‘Retirement’ Category

Are You a Baby Boomer Who Cannot Retire?

Are You a Baby Boomer Who Cannot Retire?

The Baby Boomer Generation is finding themselves in a “Perfect Storm.” This may possibly be the first time in history where the corporate Boomer and the entrepreneurial Boomer find themselves in the same boat.   3 Reasons That Are Converging to Cause This “Perfect Storm”: 1. The lending climate has put many long term successful [...]

Vacation Home Tips for Boomers

Vacation Home Tips for Boomers

Sometimes the stresses and strains of ordinary living can take a toll on our mental and physical well being. When this happens, sometimes the best solution is to move to a different environment for a period of time to relax and reconnect with our families. Some families choose to do this by taking yearly trips [...]

Advice for Boomers Wanting to Downsize

Advice for Boomers Wanting to Downsize

Are your children now adults with homes of their own? If you are experiencing empty nest syndrome, you may find that your home has become too big for you. You are no longer raising a family and do not need all of the extra room that you find you now have. You also do not [...]

Is Reinvention In Your Plans For 2011?

Is Reinvention In Your Plans For 2011?

For a Baby Boomer, asking the age-old, rhetorical question – Who am I? – might at first blush seem a trifle counter-intuitive. You’d think that if you’re a Boomer, that question was answered a long, long time ago. But was it? And if it was, is the answer still accurate, or better yet, relevant? For [...]

Reinventing Yourself, Planning for Retirement

Reinventing Yourself, Planning for Retirement

There are 76 million or more of us Baby Boomers who will be retiring between this year and 2030. Most of us aren’t a whole lot older than our Social Security system which we begun in 1935. An interesting fact is that Germany set up their old age pension in the late 1800′s. They were [...]

Boomer Retirement – Unconventional Solutions for Unconventional Times

Boomer Retirement – Unconventional Solutions for Unconventional Times

Boomer retirement is definitely going to be different than our parents’ and grandparents’ retirement was. For one thing, we haven’t had job security for something like 30 years-and we don’t have pensions, either. What we do have are falling property values, struggling portfolios, and retirement savings that aren’t quite what we want them to be. [...]

Is Clutter Getting in the Way of Your Retirement?

Is Clutter Getting in the Way of Your Retirement?

Recently, I was listening to a teleclass on de-cluttering your life with emphasis on the multiple kinds of clutter that people accumulate without even realizing it. Gathering clutter can become an unconscious obsession that ends up taking on a life of its own. Within one month of listening to this teleclass, I received my Oprah [...]

How Baby Boomers Can Create Supplemental Retirement Income

How Baby Boomers Can Create Supplemental Retirement Income

Are you a Baby Boomer who wants to know how you can create supplemental retirement income? Have you arrived at your retirement age only to find that your retirement funds are short of what you need to comfortably retire. Have you reached your senior age and still need to generate an income supplement but you [...]

5 Ways to Earn Extra Income After Retirement

5 Ways to Earn Extra Income After Retirement

Some people consider retirement as an end to their money inflow and their career. They do not realize that there are ways and means to earn extra income after retirement. Though the retirement age is 65, there are people who retire in their early 60s or earlier or even work until late 60s or later. [...]

Retirement Planning – 6 Important Questions to Consider

Retirement Planning – 6 Important Questions to Consider

The choice is yours, either have your retirement affairs in order or potentially leave the financial burden of your retirement to your children. Drift into retirement at your peril. It’s going to be a long haul exercise… so it will be better to be prepared. On 1 January 2011 the first baby boomer will turn [...]