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** Your Money
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The traditional view of retirement is outdated. No longer is it a relatively brief period of life after work. Rather, it has become an entire life stage waiting to be written thanks in large part to advances in longevity and healthcare technology.
The author suggests Four Stages of Life, each about 8,000 days, or 22 years. He further dissects the final Retirement Stage into four phases. He finds it beneficial in preparing for the tasks and issues we will be dealing with and managing throughout it.
1. The Honeymoon Phase
* travel and leisure
* caring for parents and kids
2. The Big Decision Phase
* where to live
* income decisions
3. The Navigating Complexity Phase
* managing one or more chronic conditions
* strains in social network and dependency
4. The Solo Journey Phase
* simple issues become burdensome
* conflict between well-intentioned family members
What these different phases are meant to show is that retirement is big and complex and overwhelming—but it’s not the end. It’s not what stereotypes would have us think. In everyone’s retirement, they will face these phases, but there is no formula for when or how the timeline will unfold.
Effective preparation can reduce the stress of uncertainty and boost prolonged independence and control in the lives we’ll lead tomorrow.
An 8,000 day retirement? (https://www.investmentnews.com/8000-days-an-entire-phase-of-your-life-waiting-to-be-invented-187020)
by Joseph F. Coughlin
** Your Life
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The coronavirus pandemic has caused numerous stresses for people all around the world. Worries from health to economic to education and beyond continue. However, all the social distancing, quarantining, and working and learning from home have also forced families to stay in close quarters for almost a year, and there’s no sign as to when we can safely get back to our old life again.
All this togetherness was nice at the beginning but after almost a year, this causes so much stress in everyone’s homes. Miscommunications and disagreements are rampant. Patience are worn thin, and anger easily erupts. Enter wellness and mediation expert, Deepak Chopra, with 9 steps/guidelines to de-escalating the stress and learning how to talk without anger. Even if his advice can’t help you change another person’s mind or behavior, it may help you stay calm on your end of the conflict.
9 steps for how to disagree better (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/style/deepak-chopra-disagreement-advice.html?smid=em-share)
by Nicole Pajer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danheth/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalynn-harvey-heth-mpa-ceps-3a3aa3191/
** Complexity Simplified
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Hopefully, one day soon, we will be able to get together again—which includes hosting family and guests in our homes. If you’re like many, you have Wi-Fi and must give the password to your guests in order for them to access it. Rather than trying to communicate your password, particularly if it is long and random (as most passwords are encouraged to be), create a QR sign. Or be even more creative and print your QR on coasters.
What is a QR code? It’s a type of matrix barcode. It is machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. You’ve seen them everywhere—from restaurants to access their menus on your smartphone to grocery store products to give nutritional information.
Here’s an example of a QR code. Simply use the camera on your smartphone and follow the link that pops up or use the downloaded app on your smartphone to read it:
** Trivia
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A: Paris
Q: Which singer’s real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzYWTIHqutA
** Back in 1965, this song reached #1
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