Retirement Benefits, Accounts, Longevity: Delay, Change Lifestyle

If you are planning to retire soon, think again. Retirement, it appears, is only for the few, the rich or the benefit endowed.

First, given reduced benefits, reduced personal and retirement accounts, and increased retiree longevity, workers who have a choice will delay retirement, change lifestyles, and accept that retirement as they envisioned it may not

Continue reading Retirement Benefits, Accounts, Longevity: Delay, Change Lifestyle

Risk – Where it Comes From and How it Affects our Lifestyle

The concept of risk is inherent in life – it affects just about everything we do that makes up our “lifestyle”. Most certainly risk affects our investing. It also affects how we manage our career.

Scott Shane, in his new book Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders: How Your Genes Affect Your Work Life s tells us more

Continue reading Risk – Where it Comes From and How it Affects our Lifestyle

Best Advice for Unemployed: Network and Stay Physically Fit

Some of the best career advice has always been to stay networked. One reason is so that if you were forced to find a job you would have access to people that could help you.

Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, now offers that staying physically fit is equally as important to the unemployed:

Among those hurt

Continue reading Best Advice for the Unemployed: Stay Networked and Physically Fit

High Quality of Life – Tranquility or Exuberance

What constitutes a high quality of life? Spending? Irrational exuberance? A tranquil setting? In the midst of Manhattan, over the course of 60 years, one can see tranquility and exuberance. It begs the question: How do we define a lifestyle of the highest quality.

Mark Helprin, WSJ contributor discusses the lifestyle of spending that actually did

Continue reading High Quality of Life – Tranquility or Exuberance