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North Bay Business Journal Monday, May 18, 2015, 8:17AM By Gloria Dunn-Violin Skills for your brain to thrive as long as you’re alive With advanced biomedical research and health care practices, our bodies can live 100 years. Yet, our brains start declining at the age of 40. How can we keep our brain in shape to do our best work, create our highest accomplishments [...]
January 29, 2015 by Cindy Elwell Retirement. You may have been planning it for years, working out how you and your spouse will manage it financially and how you’ll be spending your more abundant free time together. You’re nearing retirement age when all of a sudden you find yourself going through divorce, and all your plans and dreams are shattered. What do you do now? Gloria Dunn-Violin, [...]
There are ways to live longer, healthier and happier Monday, March 16, 2015, 5:30 am By Gloria Dunn-Violin Only 14 percent of baby boomers have a written strategy for their retirement, according to the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. Often, the busyness of work puts future planning on the back burner. Yet, once boomers retire they often are at a loss to know what to [...]
There are some of us who never want to “retire.” We are engaged in using our skills, hearts and minds to produce tangible products and needed services. We’re having fun. We are still working, full-time, part-time, or on-call. Or, we are using these skills in our volunteer activities. Makes no difference. We are working. And, we like it. The old definition of retirement told us [...]
Nat had been a top manager at a major corporation with 10 employees reporting directly to him. He was […]
We’ve been acculturated to save money, buy insurance, pay taxes, and own a home. You may have all those things, but do you have a life plan? Now that we are living 30 to 40 more years after retirement, it is essential to design a plan to help you adjust to your new life after retirement. You will no longer have work to fill your [...]
How do you like the word change? Do you react favorably? Or do you want to hide yourself behind a steel door so it won’t happen to you. Believe or not, you’ve been changing all of your life. Some of it was so gradual that you didn’t even notice. You went from being in your mother’s womb to finding yourself in this new and complicated [...]
How old are you? I don’t mean chronologically. What is your real age? How do you feel? What is your attitude about your age? What do you think makes you young or old? How do you view people of different ages? I recently saw Ted Robinson, a 95-year old man, give a talk about his adventures in WWII, and about his relationship with then Navy [...]
You’ve reached a juncture in your life, and you don’t know what’s next. You’ve either retired or been laid off from your job, ended a relationship, had a health scare, or experienced another big change. Now you are asking yourself, now what? What do I do now? What’s next in my life? How do I go to my next whatever? And, what is it? Sometimes [...]
