There’s been a lot of debate in the news lately as to whether sitting is “the new smoking.” Sitting too much has been linked to all manner of disease including…
Published June 14, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Published May 30, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Everybody has that one friend. The one who hits the ground running so hard and fast after retirement, they crash and burn before the year is out. They have a plan, alright. And…
Published May 24, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
In your working life, time management is the fine art (and skill) of squeezing everything you have to do into one 24-hour day. In retirement, that squeeze becomes more of…
Published May 17, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Experienced financial advisors are familiar with the principles of investor psychology. Among them, the “Regret Theory” addresses the emotional reaction clients experience after making what they perceive is an error of judgment. There are…
Published April 26, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
It sounds antithetical, if not anticlimactic. Working in retirement?! Isn’t the whole point not to work, ever again? Turns out, not so much anymore. Retirees are returning to part-time work…
Published April 10, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We applaud The National Retirement Planning Coalition (NRPC), led by the Insured Retirement Institute, for raising awareness of the need for comprehensive retirement planning by creating a special week to…
Published April 5, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
From Wikipedia… Well-being is a general term for the condition of an individual or group, for example their social, economic, psychological, spiritual or medical state. Those are all the qualities…
Published March 15, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We’ve heard the word ‘semi-retirement’ tossed around, but we’re never exactly sure what it means. Is it synonymous with early retirement? Is a semi-retired person a retiree-in-training? A provisional retiree,…
Published March 10, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Gyms and community centers are brimming with baby boomers trying to get (or stay) in shape for their golden years. (Although, attendance numbers seem to be down considerably since those 2017 New Year’s resolutions…
Published February 8, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We love sand. Especially on a sunny beach this time of year. Soft, warm and fun to build things with, sand is comforting, fluffy and, the occasional dead jellyfish notwithstanding,…