Two of the country’s best-known life-planning authors will co-lead a workshop in Chicago aimed at helping people think through their second acts. Richard N. Bolles, author of the best-selling book, What Color Is Your Parachute? and Richard Leider, veteran author, speaker and pioneer in life-work planning, will lead the May 29 - 30 event. It’s [...] [...more]
There’s no shortage of bad news about aging and retirement. Whether it’s ballooning Social Security and Medicare payments or the brain drain of millions of baby boomers leaving the workforce, the headlines all seem to focus on the increasing burdens of an aging population. There’s not much we can do about aging; we’re all doing it. [...] [...more]
Q: I retired to Lakeland, Florida seven years ago, and I am so surprised that even though we have many colleges in this area, none of them offer adult ed classes like I used to take in Fairfax, Virginia. I realize that there are probably limited resources for the colleges, but I think it could be a very [...] [...more]
If you’re over 50, you need exercise to stay fit-no disputing that. But what are you doing to keep your brain lean and mean? The concept of brain fitness has caught fire lately, with much of the attention focused on a new breed of software programs and games that claim to help older people maintain mental [...] [...more]
RetirementRevised.com is the companion website of Retire Smart, a column written by Mark Miller that appears in more than 30 newspapers each week. For millions of Baby Boomers, retirement is an opportunity for reinvention, rather than taking it easy. Mark is helping write the playbook for the new career and personal pursuits of a generation.
