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Studies in the United States have found that businesses founded by the over 50’s are twice as likely to succeed than those started by younger

“Life without design is erratic…” Seneca The stoic Seneca lived two thousand years before the idea of retirement was conceived. His words addressed everyday life

A question I have rarely asked any of our community is how they would cope with a significant but unexpected event I their lives? Whether

The subject line might conjure up images of a 40-year-old horror movie, however that is not what I am writing about. The term could be

Whilst retirement and later life will mean different things for each of us there is likely one common denominator, a desire to enjoy life as

Or it soon will be. Retirement as we have come to understand it was conceived to solve a work problem. Too many oldpeople working and

Goal setting can be an emotive subject, the topic often being associated with successful people orused by those working in the personal improvement world. Wherever

The rate of inflation seems to be slowing, which is of course great news, however this does not mean we have suddenly turned a corner

One of the exercises in our workshops is called Childhood Revisited and we developed it to help attendees think about what they might like to do with their

When you plan for your retirement is a very likely that most of your thinking is focussed on your financial portfolio. How is it invested? Is

For decades retirement was something people looked forward to, relished even. Perhaps many still do, for those that do, what is the real reason of

It is over 20 years since I began to see a trend among my financial planning clients, although small to begin with as time passed

According to data released in September 2021 by the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) life expectancy may be going into reverse. Some experts have

Most of the work we do is focussed on people and not on money or financial aspects of retiring or planning to retire. In part

As we think about later life we often find the subject daunting, frightening even. It need not be so. Much of our fear is derived

For as long as I can recall we have been told that successful people, regardless of their walk of life, set goals, and by implication

The Problem: Managing a post-pandemic workforce 70% of employees surveyed find work a chore, nearly 60% have no clue what their retirement income might look

Higher Energy bills, Private Housing Rentals up 14%, Rising Cost of Food and Petrol prices hitting record highs! Many Employees are stressed with financial worries,

A common conversation in childhood centred around what we wanted to be when we grow up? Whether asked by an adult or chatted amongst friends

There are myths a plenty in the world, some date back many thousands of years and certainly when I was a child made excellent reading.

Ever since I began the R Word project, I have been searching for a word to replace retirement and frankly, so far, I have failed.

The Time to Retire Retirement is written by the Biss founder Michael Middleton who has a vast depth of knowledge and expertise on the subject

Are you preparing for life in retirement on someone else’s terms? I bet if I asked an audience for a show of hands on how

It’s a fact that we’re all too aware of. All of the money in the world won’t buy the most crucial resource of all: time.

Why people want to associate their dreams and aspirations with a film about the lives of two terminally ill cancer patients is beyond us. Yet

In recent months millions of people around the world have found themselves with a lot of time on their hands. A pandemic was never going

It would be easy to think a service like ours can provide a silver bullet solution for your future. It doesn’t. What we do is

It is said as we age we tend to lose our imagination or creativity. This is not strictly true. What does happen is we become

The first stage in successful retirement planning is not the money. The first stage, the first step even is to decide what you want the

Are you working towards a false finish, a time imposed by someone else? So many of us are. That is to say working towards a

There are myths a plenty in the world, some date back many thousands of years and certainly as a children they make excellent reading. Among

Common among causes of retirement are a desire to escape, to run away from a job someone hates or an aspect of it, for example