Women Retire Earlier Than Men, But Don’t Have To
I’m surrounded daily by boomer women who are working full-time or part-time, volunteering, starting businesses and taking courses online as well as at community colleges. They’re engaged, working hard — and happy. None of them are “retired” or planning to step aside anytime soon. (If you’re a woman over 50 who wants to remain in [...]
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Why You Need To Love Your Job More
What’s love got to do with your job? Apparently, quite a bit. I just read the new book, Love 2.0: How Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become by Barbara L Fredrickson, a pioneer scientist in positive psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Fredrickson’s message really resonated with me. [...]
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How’s This For A Second Verse? Lights, Camera, Action
When Mike Kravinsky went to work at ABC News in 1981, he figured he would spend a year there and then head out to Los Angeles to become a filmmaker. Well, it didn’t quite work out that way. It took the 59-year-old more than three decades to follow his dream, and he’s not in Hollywood, [...]
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Sheryl Sandberg’s 5 Best ‘Lean In’ Tips For Women
Oh, my goodness. Talk about stirring up a flap. You’ve no doubt heard that Sheryl Sandberg, the 43-year-old chief operating officer atFacebook and formerGoogle executive, has written a provocative, buzzy book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. The outspoken Sandberg tells women that they need to “lean in” at work and assert themselves more. Hit the [...]
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6 Ways to Land a Job When You’re Over 50
Are you kidding? Save for retirement? Seriously, there are far more pressing financial issues–like making ends meet right now and clinging to your current job, or worse, finding one, which I will help you with in a minute. Financial advisors recommend socking away a whopping 15 percent of pay for retirement. Easier said then done.Backburner, [...]
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Forbes: Why Older Workers Can’t Be Ignored
The day is coming when employers are going to embrace the value of older workers. They don’t have a choice. There are, however, some sober challenges which I discuss below. The growing presence of older Americans in the workforce is a fact. Our economy is already relying increasingly on 50-plusers working–even if we don’t always feel [...]
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Build It and They Will Come
Does it surprise you that a majority of workers are unhappy in their jobs? Those were the findings of a 2012 report by the Conference Board, a business and research membership group.This troubles me. So I’ve gone in search of happy workers. I’m starting a series of profiles of people who love what they do. I’ll run [...]
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All I Really Need to Know About Success I Learned From My Labrador Retriever
All I really need to know for the coming year I learned from my Labrador Retriever. My resolution: To try harder to follow her example. Check out these eight ways to make your life better. 1. Start the day with gusto. My Labrador retriever, Zena, arises with a mission. She’s motivated. First, to motivate me. [...]
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Changing Lives: How Five Americans Won $100,000 Purpose Prize
Most people do good deeds without expecting to be repaid. The reward is the act in itself. Encore.org, a nonprofit that promotes second acts for the greater good, selected five Americans 60 and older to each win a $100,000 Purpose Prize for changing lives in new and creative ways. Wow. Encore.org has made it a mission to encourage [...]
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Want An Unbeatable Interview? Read These Tips
You can make all the great impressions in the world on paper, but where the rubber meets the road is when you meet someone face-to-face. Once you get the nod for an interview, it’s show time. Here’s some interviewing advice from my new Great Jobs for Everyone 50 + that can boost your image and your [...]
A collection of 65 essays that provides practical and entertaining advice about how to create a fulfilling retirement. The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research.
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