I don’t know where to go! You are writing your bucket list, and you love travelling, but you just don’t know where you want to go! That sums me up – whilst I love travelling and seeing new things, I have no imagination at all and tend to rely on my wife Fran who has …
The idea of retiring and giving up that day job seems great, but for many people the desire to keep working remains, why is this? The benefits of working Of course, one of the primary benefits of working is the ability to earn a steady income to give you financial stability and security, helping you …
Life after work, whether this is because you are about to retire or maybe you have worked hard to create a passive income, will bring you that freedom that you have always dreamed of. But be warned – it may be a bumpy road… It is estimated that the average person retiring at the …
Whether you are struggling with an ever growing workload, or just the events of the world around us making us feel like it is harder just to cope with the average day, many of us feel overwhelmed. And I am not talking about the CEOs of big companies or emergency room doctors and nurses, I …
If retiring early is a goal for you, it’s worth taking a closer look to see what it means in practice. Retirement doesn’t necessarily mean you want to stop work and spend all your time playing golf or walking the dog. Maybe you still want to work, but on something that means more to you, …
I have always worked hard, worked long hours, worked weekends, worked at doing the best I can. This has brought its positives and negatives. Financially I have generally been okay, but I have not spent as much time at home as I would have liked, working too long hours when I could have been spending more …
Recently I have been reading a few articles on retiring early. Most of them are backed by research that says that retiring early will actually increase your life expectancy. In Holland, public sector workers that took early retirement had a 42% lower five year mortality rate than those who continued working into their 60s. In the …
With it being the first of March (and the end of winter woohoo!) I was reminded that now is the time to plant spring bulbs, even if it is in a pot, because in a few weeks time you will start seeing those green shoots coming through and the world will seem a better place. …
Ways to slightly improve your life (or my version of Baz Lurhmann’s Sunscreen Song) Read More »
After a rather foolish New Year’s Eve decision to sign-up for the Brighton Half Marathon, then trying to get myself into some sort of reasonable shape, today I joined thousands of others on a beautiful sunny (but a bit windy) Sunday morning to complete the 13-or-so miles. I was collecting for Mid Downs Radio, a local …
I have noticed things changing at work. When I got to my mid-50s, I became more aware of how “older” colleagues were being treated – because I was now one of them myself. With so much focus on sexism and racism, the much more subtle issue of ageism (both young and old) seems to go …
Ageism – The Less Spoken About Discrimination In The World Read More »
