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Tips For Baby Boomers - Retirement & Panic

A month or more has gone by since your fateful "retirement day" and it's still not happening-whatever "it" is! By now, the honeymoon has ended, and you're feeling increasingly rudderless, redundant, non-essential, inconsequential, irrelevant. You seem to have lost your balance. Your equilibrium has gone south. Even your voice seems to have become less imposing! Don't imagine for a minute that you are unique in all the world. Thousands of colleagues (in fact, over 10,000 daily) are joining your ranks, experiencing your anxiety, and grappling with the ups and downs of retirement life. Let's examine the sources of their (and your) apprehension, and three keys to making the transition into what can be the best, most productive and unabashedly enjoyable phase of your life.

Fun Spring Activities for Baby Boomers

Who doesn't love spring when longer days brighten the sky, birds sing joyfully, and trees begin sprouting bright new leaves? Here are six fun spring activities baby boomers can enjoy as weather permits, no matter your age.

Baby Boomers: Conquering The Battle Of The Bulge

I will be 53 this February and I feel amazing all because I followed my literal gut feelings and changed to a plant-based lifestyle. It has led me on a path to self-love and an overall purifying body and mind journey, that is nourishing me inside and out.

Baby Boomers: Should You Move Your Retirement Funds Out of the Stock Market?

Earlier this week, stocks took a free fall. The Dow plunged almost 1,600 points, the worst decline in history during a trading day. Did that alarming drop make you baby boomers wonder if you should stay invested in the stock market? If so, this is a must-read article.

10 Ways Baby Boomers Can Be Happier in 2018

How can you live your best life and be happier in 2018? Here are 10 surefire ways you can hit the restart button for a better life.

How Baby Boomers Can Find Themselves Again After Life-Altering Events

Baby boomers go through a lot of major life changes that throw off their sense of self. Retirement, caregiving, empty nest syndrome, divorce, or the loss of a loved one can change their lives forever. This article discusses several ways they can rediscover and reinvent themselves and move forward to live a fulfilling life again.

Baby Boomers Need to Stop Making Happiness the Goal

Studies show that younger baby boomers are the unhappiest age group. But can you try too hard to be happy? Should you make happiness a goal? Does it seem like the more you strive for happiness the more it seems to elude you? The answers may surprise you.

Baby Boomers Warned About Over-Drinking As Alcohol-Related Deaths Soar

by Julie Gorges

A new study shows baby boomers are hitting the bottle at alarming levels. Just this week, baby boomers received new warnings about alcohol as people aged 50-plus deaths linked to alcohol soared.You may be shocked at what is considered over-drinking which is probably less than you think. What are the risks and how can you cut back on your drinking? Check out this important article.

Baby Boomers Are Downsizing, But Millennial Children Don't Want Family Heirlooms

Baby boomers are downsizing. They assume their Millennial children will be thrilled to receive their family heirlooms and most prized possessions. Not so much.

A Summer Holiday

In the early 1960's I commenced a journal and recorded the events of my life as a teenager in suburban Melbourne, Australia. The year 1964 was the year that I finished high school and our family went on a road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide. This article contains my memories of that family holiday...

Five Positive Tips for Baby Boomers: Retirement & Panic

As we 73 million Baby Boomers retire in droves, at the rate of 10,000 per day, and totaling more than a quarter million Americans every month until the year 2030, we enter a period of personal disorientation and confusion, if the truth be known. We are a very hard-working generation, and often have been defined by our careers. And we have high expectations. So if some of us associate feelings of panic with retirement, we have good reason. But there are positive factors that will make transformative differences in our favor. Use these five tips and considerations to your advantage to turn your own retirement years into some of the best years of your life.

Millenial Applicants, Baby Boomer Employers

Many young professionals are frustrated with their inability to find lucrative and stable employment. This article seeks to explore some of the reasons millenials find it so tough to land an adequate job that utilizes their credentials.

I Wish You Understood

I keep hearing the same thing - from different people, and I thought maybe if I wrote it down - someone might understand. I hope if this is you - that you can understand. Please try...

Baby Boomers - How Far We Have Come!

This article reminisces about what the world was like for those of us in the baby boomer generation. It goes on to discuss the changes and how to cope with them safely. There are many products on the market to provide protection and safety.

Born Between 1946 and 1965? Then You're a Baby Boomer and You Must Read This

If you were born between 1946 and 1965 you are affectionately known as a Baby Boomer and it's a worldwide phenomenon. After the world's population was decimated during WWII respective governments encouraged women to have more children which they did. It is those children that are now causing concern as they reach what used to be regarded as retiring age.

Baby Boomers: Should You Be Helping Your Kids Financially?

It can be difficult as a parent to not help out your children when they are in need financially. But when is enough, enough? Baby Boomers are risking their retirement by helping their adult children long term.

7 Things to Stay Away From to Age Gracefully

Aging is inevitable. We all age as years pile up on us. A few, unfortunately, get to look older before they are really old, while some don't seem to age at all. It as if time stood still on them.

The Baby Boomer Lifestyle - What Is It?

We are not old people. We are Baby Boomers living a second life. We have an eclectic choice of new lifestyles. We are using online dating services to find partners that have similar interests. We are having second and third time partners and/or marriages. We do Yoga,Tai Chi, have read The Tao Te Ching, and follow the teachings of Lao Tzu. We meditate daily, get regular massages and know what "Co Q-10" is.

My Favorite Toy of 60 Years

He was a toy given to me 60 years ago. What remains of my tattered, torn, tired friend with the hole in his leg and the loose threads around his neck still sits on my bookcase. I no longer seem to have time for him, but he's never forgotten me.

Adjusting My Routine Pattern

I believe that one of the biggest signs of growing old or aging, if you prefer, is the inability, or at least the engrained grouch-ability, of adjusting from an old routine to a new one. It is tough to change and rearrange when we know that the old way, the familiar way, the tried and true way is the best.