Our western culture is pre-occupied with youth and generally treats ageing as a tragedy. The young things in the media focus on negatives like wrinkles, memory loss and mobility issues and promote the belief that being over 60 is all bad news. Fortunately, much of […]
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I want to compliment you on what I read in “My Life Change” column in our local paper – Central Western Daily at Orange. What great ideas were expressed in today’s CWD – exercise/be engaged with life etc. I had passed on my favourable comments […]
Read MoreWhy A Comfortable Retirement Is Now Up To You
The Government’s freeze on employer contributions puts the onus back on you to save enough superannuation. You’ll need to start saving early to secure a comfortable retirement. Photo: Shutterstock You will now have to wait seven years for the Government to boost the money trickling […]
Read MoreA Good Retirement Calculator Considers Other Important Issues
While most retirement calculators are useful in helping you plan your financial future, they ignore the equally important lifestyle issues. The big problem when most people start thinking about their retirement is that the process often raises a lot of media generated negative issues like […]
Read MorePrevention Is Better Than Cure
If we want to give ourselves the best chance of slowing the ageing process and enjoying good health in our later years, we need to take responsibility for our own health. We can’t sub-contract this job to our partner, our doctor or the government. Too […]
Read MoreIs Retirement Good For Health Or Bad For It?
Patrick J Skerrett, Executive Editor, Harvard Health For many people, retirement is a key reward for decades of daily work – a time to relax, explore and have fun unburdened by the daily grind. For others, though, retirement is a frustrating period marked by declining health […]
Read MoreSeminars For Outdoor Workers
We were recently asked to give pre -retirement seminars to the road maintenance workers at a Leightons / Boral depot in Sydney recently. This involved running seminars to tie in with shift timings, which meant presenting at 7am and 9pm. While it wasn’t the kind […]
Read MoreIs Retirement Good For Health Or Bad For It?
For many people, retirement is a key reward for decades of daily work – a time to relax, explore and have fun unburdened by the daily grind. For others, though, retirement is a frustrating period marked by declining health and increasing limitations. For years, researchers […]
Read MoreLinks From The Rest Of Your Life Book
This page makes it easy for you to follow the web links shown in the “Resources” section at the end of each chapter of our book titled “The Rest of Your Life”. Instead of having to type the various web addresses into your computer, you […]
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