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Dr. Kalinda Rose Stevenson
Do You Know The Greatest Mistake In Most Retirement Advice About Retirement Income?
Do you need a certain amount of retirement income to retire? After reading many articles addressed to consumers about the need to save money for retirement, I have concluded that much of this advice is based on restricting assumptions about money. As a result, much financial retirement advice is bad retirement advice. Read more
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Resolve To Find Yourself
“Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”
Matthew Arnold
It’s that time of year again. Time when we make New Year’s resolutions. Here’s a resolution for you. Resolve to stop fixing yourself and concentrate instead on finding your true self. Read more
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Putting The Now In Christmas
“If not now, When?”
The Talmud
Whatever your religious beliefs, no one can avoid Christmas. As much as you might want it to go away, Christmas becomes the 800 pound gorilla that demands attention.
The song might claim that “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” but for most of us, Christmas is much too complicated to be all that wonderful. Read more
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Your ZigZag Path To Success
“Living systems require setbacks to flourish.”
Bob Pratcher
Do you ever get frustrated with your progress? Do you tell yourself that every time you take three steps forward, you then take two steps backward? Do you identify the backwards steps as setbacks and failures? Read more
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The Diet And Money Double Whammy
“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.” Read more
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Why Resistance Can Be Your Best Friend, Part II
“Objection is when I say: this doesn’t suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn’t suit me never happens again.”
Ulrike Meinhof
“Just do it!”! Nike made this imperative its slogan. From a grammatical perspective, “Just do it!” is a complete sentence. What is particularly relevant is that an imperative is a sentence without a clearly defined subject. “You” are the implied subject of the imperative, but “you” are not specifically named. Read more
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Why Resistance Can Be Your Best Friend
“The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.”
H. G. Wells
Why is it so difficult to change? When you decide that you are going to make a change in your life, why do you find it so difficult to follow through? Why do you keep falling back into old patterns? Read more
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How Do You Get To Easy Street?
“Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.”
Nadia Comaneci
I got an email from a friend this week. She has started work on a new business venture but has gotten distracted by family matters. One phrase in her email stood out. “This is not as easy as I had planned.” Read more
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The Power of Focus In An Attention Deficit World
“It’s not that I’m smart, it’s just that I stay with the problems longer.”
Albert Einstein
I once took an evening Learning Annex class with Richard I’Anson, an Australian travel photographer. He was wonderfully engaging and informative. I loved his photos and bought his Travel Photography book at the end of the evening. Of all that he said that evening, two comments have stayed with me. Read more
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What You Really Need To Retire
“The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”
Audrey Sutherland
Did you read the two money articles in Parade Magazine on Sunday? The first article is their annual cover story about what people earn. The second article makes the bold assertion: “What You’ll Really Need To Retire.” The point of the article is that retirement costs much more than people realize, and most people are not saving enough money. Read more
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