Tweet I am frequently asked what I do to make my working at home a success for my business and family. My answer is always: “it depends”. It depends on my children, my parents and my husband’s parents, my clients, and the weather. Why the weather? You may ask. Because I tend to get what [...]
Personal Well Being While Working in Retirement
Tweet Financial well being in retirement while working was the focus of my last post. In this post I’m writing about personal health status and mental self reliance. Again the information is from a recent study at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. Based on the research those working in retirement [...]
Retirement is Stressful
Tweet Just ask me! I’m working in my retirement and my last assignment with a well known international accounting and consulting firm was the most stressful job – ever. I now know that the concept of team work doesn’t work if there are more important activities that can earn my client money. I suppose what’s [...]
Financilly Self Reliant in Retirement
Tweet When I was a kid and a young adult I thought retirement was a time when you did what you wanted – if you physically could – and didn’t have to work. However, I also learned there were exceptions. My mother, a partner in a small business, couldn’t be convinced to leave the business [...]
Entrepreneurs Make Time Work for Them
Tweet Congratulations! You had an idea about starting a new business and you are doing it. After all, you have the experience after 30 years in the manufacturing business. Now you’re a consultant for training employees in customer relations and business is good. You’ve set up an office in your home now that the kids [...]
Working at Home on Schedule
Tweet I’ve been working with a couple of clients and helping them find better ways to manage their time. Both of them found new careers after being downsized from fairly large corporations. They couldn’t wait to start their business and have the freedom of working at home and not have to waste their time attending [...]
Self Discipline Creates Successful Changes
Tweet The choice is yours: self discipline or regret. Which will cause you more pain? Disciplined effort generally results in multiple rewards. That seems to be one of life’s guidelines. It’s not a new law or one I invented. How well you sow is how well you will reap is one saying that’s has been [...]
Positive Thinking Simplifies Change
Tweet Keep in mind that you’re a product of your environment. One conclusion then is for you to choose an environment that enhances your development toward your objective. Think about the past 20 years in terms of your environment. What are the things around you that you know for sure are helping you toward your [...]
Financial Independence and Professional Development
Tweet It’s not hard to dream about financial independence that you can actually achieve it and then face reality that it it’s going to be a struggle to believe that it’s actually possible for you? You are retired and spent some time exploring the world but now the bills are starting to pile up a [...]
Use It Or Lose It
Tweet There have been many research studies reported that working beyond the normal retirement age appears to help seniors avoid dementia. One British report which found that Alzheimer’s symptoms seemed to emerge at age 75 in men found that all things being equal, the symptoms were delayed about 7 weeks for every extra year the [...]
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