Recrafting ourselves

New Rule for Life #3: Keep your professional networks active and current.

New Rule for Life #3: Keep your professional networks active and current.

Most of us now in or thinking about our “retirement years”, whether we’re still working full or part time or not, grew up with a 4 stage life model: 1. Childhood 2. Education 3. Work and Family 4. Retirement What has changed? “Retirement” has developed multiple forms and there is no one way to do it, much less do it…

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New Rule for Life #2: Working Longer and Keeping Your Skills Current

New Rule for Life #2: Working Longer and Keeping Your Skills Current

New Rule for Life #2: Remain able and qualified to work well into your 80s and beyond. Track where work-for-pay is going AND keep your marketable skills and certifications current/relevant. She came to me for advice. Not financial advice. That’s not what I do and, besides, she already has a great financial advisor. “What can I do to make some…

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What’s Different About Financial Advising In The New Normal?

What’s Different About Financial Advising In The New Normal?

I recently interviewed an experienced financial planner to discuss how financial planning and the advice people need has changed in The New Normal. George: What was your work like when you first came into the Financial Services industry? Financial Planner: It used to be so much simpler in the Old Normal when the norm for my clients was to predictably…

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IS THE NEW NORMAL OVER? 

….it depends on how you define The New Normal and what your discontinuous future holds in store for you. “The road that we’ve been on for such a long time, the so-called ‘new normal,’ is coming to an end, because it’s being eaten up by its own contradictions,” said Mohamed El-Erian, during an interview on Bloomberg TV.  Mr. El-Erian is…

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