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Reinventing Retirement Newsletter
Table of Contents 1. Blogs, Newsletters and other
Resources
We do this list periodically because
there is always something new to report, e.g. The explosion in blogs.
You'll find some perennially useful resources here also worth
revisiting. We have organized the information under categories that
parallel the chapter headings of Too Young to Retire, with a few more
categories we are considering for a revised edition of the book.
Feel free to copy this list, attributing 2young2retire.
ACTIVISM If
you are up to here with every social issue becoming fodder for
self-serving sound bites, turn to Public Agenda,
http://www.publicagenda.org/pubengage/pe_citizen_choicework.cfm
Says Forbes.com: "Public
Agenda isn't interested in providing cursory introductions to
candidates or issues. The site is fabulously thorough." For
lessons in developing civil discourse about potentially divisive
subject matter, check out: http://www.letstalkamerica.org/
Other national 'big talk' initiatives include: National Coalition
for Dialogue & Deliberation http://www.thataway.org
Conversation Cafes
www.conversationcafe.org/
Age of Innovation, a new blog from David Bank:
http://civicventures.typepad.com/age_of_innovation/ Feliz
Cumpleanos! Gelukkige
Verjaardag! Hone
your sense of global citizenship by adopting a second language a word
or phrase at a time. Begin with the familiar, like Happy Birthday,
then turn them loose on http://babelfish.altavista.com/ ON
BOOMERS
http://www.boomerstv.com/blog/
Mark and Nancy Fernandez Mills are
your hosts for this lively blog and the new PBS show, Boomers!
Redefining Life After 50! The current show, Self and Spirit,
features Senior Kripalu Scholar in Residence, author and Marika's
favorite yoga teacher, Stephen (Kaviraj) Cope, who looks pretty buff
at 56!
MONEY
For our money, The Motley Fool's
advice is well worth the price of admission. Rule Your Retirement,
for example, is only $99/year. Under the editorship of Robert
Brokamp, RYR, is a good example of financial advice that takes the
rest of your life into account. See his article here:
http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2005/commentary05092806.htm We are subscribers and contributed an
article to the December 2005 edition.
Financial documents – which to keep
and for how long. Demystification for fr*ee from Bank Rate.
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/mtg/20000518h.asp
Please
remember, there is a difference between financial advisers who are
selling a product and those who work for you, and charge a fee.
Check out the National Association of Personal Financial Advisers:
http://www.napfa.org/
Very responsive.
WORK
From one workplace innovator,
Deloitte Touche, comes a report well worth your eyeballs and time:
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/US_TalentMgmtPOV_2.11.05.pdf
Maybe the color of your parachute has
changed. Fear not. Here's an on line
resource from best-selling author, Dick Bolles:
http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/index.php
See also http://www.rileyguide.com/, www.backdoorjobs.com
and www.vocationvacations.com
to 'test drive' a career or business that attracts
you. Snag-a-Job specializes in part time jobs:
http://www.snagajob.com/default.asp?ref=gptjkw
See who is setting an example. Model
employers of the 50+:
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/Articles/a2004-09-22-mag-bestchart.html
Self-explanatory:
http://www.cruiseshipjob.com/
We like fr*ee samples, whether
shopping for Shiraz or career assessments.
Here's a site that offers a good basic one:
http://www.assessment.com/
Monster.com, the premier career
search site, now has a focus on the 50+:
http://careersat50.monster.com/
Good article on self-employment. Fr*ee
work tools: OpenOffice.org
is a multiplatform
and multilingual
office
suite
and an open-source
project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product
is free to download, use, and distribute.
http://www.openoffice.org/ Fr*ee (mostly) business development tools from Business Week
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Is it time for a National Town Hall
meeting? All the great ideas seem to be coming from We the People.
In the past few months, thousands of fellow Americans submitted more
than 22,000 ideas for a better America. Read the ideas and check out
the finalists. Inspiring stuff! http://www.SinceSlicedBread.com
“Second careers in the retirement
years are about people, purpose and community,” says Met Life
Foundation and Civic Ventures, the New Fact of Work Survey. Turns
out that's where there is a lot of opportunity.
http://www.civicventures.org/publications/surveys/new_face_of_work/new_face_of_work.pdf
Our two favorite sites that will
match your give back instincts with organizations remain:
http://www.volunteermatch.com
and http://www.idealist.com/. National
Idealist conference coming up in March:
http://www.idealist.org/conferences/cool/2006/
If children and teens are where you
want to put your attention, read Rick Koca's story,
http://www.2young2retire.com/rickkoca.htm
Rick is 2young2retire's nominee for the Purpose Prize. Another
favorite: http://www.experiencecorps.org/
WELLNESS
For health information, research and
quick answers in a medical emergency, this is still a leader:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/
Also check out: http://medlineplus.gov/
For women's health information, Dr.
Christiane Northrup http://www.drnorthrup.com/ Her article:
http://www.drnorthrup.com/menopause-3.php
Of course, it bears repeating: there is no substitute for
the advice of a professional you trust when you need medical
assistance.
Despite rising gas prices, an RV
remains a viable choice for frugal travelers with wanderlust because
of other savings. Here are two sites that offer an education in this
fast growing lifestyle. Phil and Carol White's
http://www.roadtripdream.com/
See the world on a shoestring: http://www.vwvagabonds.com/
Great photos of out of the way places.
If the idea of a rigorous hiking
vacation off the beaten track turns you on, check out:
http://www.50plusexpeditions.com/
Read Danny Bernsteins' story,
http://www.2young2retire.com/dannybernstein.htm
Elderhostel's Road Scholar took
friends of ours on their first trip to China and Tibet:
http://www.roadscholar.org/home/default.asp
Great slogan: Learning It's a Trip! QUICK
TAKES
Speaking of new resources, this is
also a good time to announce that, with the permission of
Penguin/Plume, we are self-publishing a companion work entitled Too
Young to Retire: A Journal of Transition. Designed as a guided
journal with questions to prompt inquiry
and introspection, plus fieldwork assignments to deepen commitment
to action. As most dedicated journal writers know -- Marika has been
one since 1979 -- journaling is a powerful tool for self-reflection,
discovery and action (not to mention preserving sanity). Too Young to
Retire: A Journal of Transition will not be for sale to the
general public at this time. It is intended for use by participants
of the 2young2retire course now being led by 2young2retire certified
facilitators around the country. It will also be used in Howard's
weekend workshop at the Duncan Center, Del Ray Beach, FL, in May
2006, and at other venues to be announced, including teleclasses.
We
honor Betty Friedan, who died at 85. Here's a quote from one of the
sessions in which she participated at the American Society on Aging
Annual Meeting in Atlanta:"When I embarked upon the
10-year ordeal of writing 'The Fountain of Age,' I found an age
mystique even more pervasive, pernicious, perverted and obsolete than
the feminine mystique. It defined age as programmed deterioration
from youth to terminal senility--only as a problem for society . . .
. If we make this paradigm shift away from age as decline, we will be
thinking in terms of a productive human life at 75 or 80 years or
more" (originally quoted in Aging Today, May-June 1995).
At the Science Museum in Jersey City,
NJ, there is a sensitivity training device that has long stayed in my
mind. It is a 'maternity suit' that enables its wearer – male or
female – to experience in his/her own body what it feels like to be
6 or more months pregnant. Now, there is the “Third Age Suit”
created by Ford Motors' research, “a cross between bee keeper's
protective gear and an astronaut suit,” according to Deloitte
Touche's fascinating report, Wealth With Wisdom.
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/US_CB_wealthwithwisdom_0106.pdf The suit enables engineers to enhance
design for aging consumers. No surprise. People 50+ spend more than
$1.7 trillion on goods and services annually, according to a Consumer
Expenditure Survey.
Quiet,
stuffy and old-fashioned? That image of libraries is being revised
as many begin to tool up to attract a new customer base, like Boomers
researching new business opportunities. Thanks to Coach Alex Mezey
for sharing this article:
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060206/NEWS15/60206008 Cool
Career Alert! Aging Boomers (330 new sexagenarians every hour) will
make brain gyms and a new 'greening' movement among the hottest new
trends, says Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and Free
Agent Nation. And pave the way for some Cool Careers, whether
you are an aging Boomer yourself or targeting this demographic. Pink
is a Yahoo! Columnist and one of the smartest guys we
know:http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/trenddesk/2267 With
Boomers dominating the news since they began to turn 60 in 2006, you
may think you know everything there is to know about this
inexhaustible subject. Guess again:
http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Boomers/5-12-12-BoomerFacts.htm "People
who keep up their low-calorie diets may be able to count on more than
their waistline shrinking. A new study suggests that the heart's
diastolic blood pressure goes down, too. The results bode well
for the theory that such diets can prolong lifespan in humans, as
dieters' hearts worked as well as those of individuals on a
calorie-packed western diet who were 15 years younger." Stay
well, make it new, make it better.
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