Life After the Box 2-10-2020: Distill Your Skills
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Distill Your Skills
© 2020 Michael A. Babiarz
One of the keys to a successful retirement is unearthing all the skills you have accumulated over the many decades of your life. Why? Because you will be using one or more of those skills to create a path towards financial freedom and greater purpose and meaning in this next chapter of your life.
[Read more…]Life After the Box 2-3-2020: Are You Average? How Much Money Does the Average American Have When Retiring?
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Are you Average? How Much Money Does the Average American Have When Retiring?
© 2020 by Michael A. Babiarz
The original concept of post-World War II retirement planning used a three-legged stool as a common metaphor. Some have attributed this analogy to Franklin Roosevelt; Others believe it was a late 1940s illustration by an executive of a large insurance company. There doesn’t seem to be any definitive proof of its origin.
[Read more…]Life After the Box 1-27-2020: Understanding what chaos is.
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Understanding How Chaos Affects Us All
© 2020 by Michael A. Babiarz
You can be the smartest person in the world, have a terrific background, a supportive family structure, and regardless, when a traumatic event occurs, chaos will ensue, and things will spin almost out of control.
[Read more…]Protect Yourself & Your ASSets from Chaos
“Failure to protect your money is the fastest way to lose it.”
This concern is one I’ve addressed many times with my clients. Sadly, I know those who, despite their well-thought plans, wound up waylaid when chaos visited them. Their dreams of financial security and abundance shattered, they were left to pick up the pieces and rebuild.
[Read more…]If it can happen to Tom Brady and Santa, it can happen to you.
Happiest of New Years and new decades!
Below please find a link to a very interesting and informative article. If you are age 50 or approaching, it could be eye opening for you.
Festivus & the Narcissist
Happy Festivus everyone!
Traditionally celebrated on December 23, this faux holiday was popularized by an episode of the Seinfeld series in which the character Frank Costanza torments his son George with various festivities. Interestingly, Festivus was not invented by the Seinfeld series. Writer Daniel O’Keefe’s family had created this event years earlier. O’Keefe’s son was one of the writers of the Seinfeld episode where the holiday made its appearance. That television show added new Festivus practices to those of the original O’Keefe family observance.
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