Only 44% of Americans take vacations in a given year. What’s wrong with the other 56%? Today’s post from The...
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Six essential lessons learned from people who work from home. There is a consistent increase in the number of home-based...
Things that were once important, due to the change in our life status, may now become less so. Other things, once less important, may become higher priorities. Identifying these areas as you prepare for retirement, and taking the necessary steps to align priorities, is an important focus in your final...
I had an epiphany of sorts at 6:00 am one morning this week, which is the focus of today’s philosophical...
The importance of vision and strategy from the point of view of a former US Naval officer. Long before strategic...
According to a recent survey, the most significant retirement fears (by a sizeable margin) relate to being able to cover your expenses once the paychecks stop flowing financially. The summary of the survey is shown below: To best address these fears, it is critical to understand various withdrawal strategies for...
How to build trust in a professional relationship through effective communication. Early in my professional (post-university) career, I was attending...
There’s a special place at the end of my road – a place where time stands still. Or does it?...
I posted the above quote from Henry David Thoreau on my Instagram account today. It makes me think, and I like it. We’re all busy. So are the ants. We run and hurry here to there, then back again. Traffic, traffic, ever late. Stressed. Hurried. Scrambled. Stop a minute. Focus....
Examples of operational rhythm in business management and leadership. Take two metronomes and place them at opposite ends of a...
What, you may wonder, do Retirement Planning and Swiss Trains have in common? Very little, it turns out, and that‘s...
How to keep customers loyal by using handwritten thank you cards. When I started working for Ben Bridge Jeweler in 1998, one of the practices I learned as a new sales associate was that every month, I was to print out a list of all the customers who bought something...
Over the past week, I’ve read several recent studies on depression in retirement. The findings are concerning. It turns out...
The word genius brings to mind great people like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. Many write off genius capabilities as...
Customer support is very important for every business. On the one hand, it helps to solve customers’ issues connected with your products. On the other hand, customer support builds an image of your company, and this image greatly depends on the support quality. Sometimes even a good product can’t retain customers...
Why do challenges and struggles make some people stronger and make others weaker? How is it that some teams/people come...
Why being optimistic and thinking positively is vital in business and life. You might be thinking “why would I want...
The one understated quote by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. with a powerful meaning. Occasionally in life, there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be entirely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. – Dr Martin...
As my regular readers know, I occasionally inject a “non-finance” article into the world that is The Retirement Manifesto. It’s...
Why analytical thinking is important: People with analytical thinking skills are in demand. There are typical business situations where we...
