Retire-o-meter: Measuring Your Retirement Confidence

In the mid-70s The Gong Show used an ‘Applause-O-Meter’ when finalists would be rounded up at the end of the show and the audience would pick a winner via applause. A silly but useful tool. What if you could use a similar tool to rate your preparation for and likely success during retirement?
People [...]

Beyond Work is the “Best Retirement Book of 2008”

Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully (Wiley, 2008) was selected as the Independent Publishers’ Axiom Award Gold Medal winner in the 2008 retirement book category.  The competitively judged Axiom Book Awards presents gold, silver and bronze medals in 22 categories.  “The judging is based on content, originality, design, and production quality, with emphasis on [...]

Retirement and Marriage

I can tell you that that retirement magnifies the quality of a relationship. Retirement is a stress test for marriages; good relationships get better and tough ones get worse. Part of this is simply due to the amount of time spent together. Both spouses have concerns about how they will spend their [...]

Hope for the Future

Today, January 20, 2009, is Inauguration Day and the world seems different. The weather, the economy, the world remain the same yet most people feel something rarely felt during the previous year – we feel hopeful.
Hope, the belief that better times are coming, has been in short supply in this country. I expect that hard [...]

Madoff’s Money Madness & Mistrust

Everyone believed everyone else and the emperor walked naked on Wall Street to the cheers of his supporters.

Your Life Beyond Work

Welcome to this blog which is based on my book: Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully (Wiley, 2008).  The research I conducted for the book provided me with a new understanding and appreciation of retirement.  This understanding has deepened as I work with people considering retirement or recently retired, conduct daylong seminars for those [...]

Did you know that 100 years old isn’t as old as it used to be?

More 100 year-olds mean more people in their 90s, 80s, and younger.

Are you worried about your retirement finances?

We live in worried times. I don’t have to tell you how uncertain the economy is today, how we have all seen our hard- earned retirement savings whither. It is clear that the only thing our country’s best economic thinkers can do is sit in the front couple of seats this roller coaster we’re riding [...]