What Is Productivity Anyway?

Adapted from the book  Project Renewment™: The First Retirement Model for Career Women by Bernice Bratter & Helen Dennis “If I am not productive, I am irrelevant.” Being productive is part of our core and for good reason.  As career women, we have achieved success by […]

Reviewing Old Beliefs

Following on from my last article, What You Focus on You Create, I would like to suggest that there are many beliefs that people subconsciously focus on. You might be surprised to discover just how many beliefs you learned as a child that still control […]

Childhood Survival Patterns

Following on from my last article, What You Focus on You Create, I would like to suggest that there are many beliefs that people subconsciously focus on.  You might be surprised to discover just how many beliefs you learned as a child that still control […]

The Top Five Steps To Stock Market Success

Entering the stock market can be overwhelming at the best of times, but with the events of the past few years many people have completely stopped investing. Wealth Within chief analyst Dale Gillham believes now is the time to re-enter the share market and he […]

The World Is Your Oyster With U3A

Think over the years how many times you have thought to yourself – “I wish I knew how to do that!” What was it? Maybe it was to learn another language, music, horticulture, literature, life science, computing, photography, or simply bush walking. Well what better […]

Roaming With A Purpose

Some travellers aim to make a difference Forget the traditional resort holiday. Today there is a new traveller emerging. Joanne Davies, Naturewise program manager from Conservation Volunteers Australia, explains a revolutionary way to holiday. Voluntourists are experience seekers looking for a holiday which is engaging, enriching […]

Is Australia The Lucky Country

How the budget affects your retirement. We are consistently told we live in the lucky country, yet constantly we see evidence to the contrary. I would not call it lucky that we have some of the highest interest rates in the world or that we […]

What Do I Do With My Retirement?

Retirement? The question is not ‘What do I do IN my retirement?’ rather ‘What do I do WITH my retirement?’ The very word ‘retirement’ conjures up something different for each and everyone one of us. I wonder what it means for you? … What is […]

When Ghosts Come Out Dancing

As soon as we landed at Rangoon, Burma’s international airport, numbers of taxis slid out of the darkness using only sidelights.  They made a haphazard collection of 1940s and 1950s cars held together in make-do glory because of international sanctions.  The taxi interiors were also […]