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Retirement Lifestyle Planning

Retirement lifestyle planning is so much more than just financial planning.

Retirement should be all about designing next stage of your life the way you want to live it, with purpose, fulfillment and fun.  This means choosing your lifestyle and activities according to your own unique way of thinking and being.
Create the life you’d love
Young at Heart helps you consider ways you can create the life you’d love.  We help you take steps towards living life that suits that unique person called YOU.
Start from YOU
At Young at Heart we look at retirement lifestyle planning differently. We believe that your lifestyle planning should start with YOU. What are your hopes and dreams, your bucket list, your big audacious goals, the things you want to achieve in your lifetime?

Don’t get bogged down in the negativity of what you think you “should” do or what you don’t have. Let’s start from the other end. Consider how you want your life to be then make your plans, based on a combination of your dreams and your circumstances.
Be realistic
Your retirement lifestyle planning must also be realistic. We can help you boost your income through self-employment or employment, using the skills and experience you already have. We can open your eyes to all the possibilities and strategies available to you and help you make that happen.  Importantly, you can do all this  while living the lifestyle you want.

Young at Heart Retirement Planning category focuses on three sections: Designing Your Retirement, VolunteeringPeople’s Stories.

Articles

  • Selling on Amazon February 2, 2016
    Selling on Amazon isn’t as easy as people say it is! In keeping with our BoomersNextStep belief that baby boomers can thrive on making career changes and should not let age stop them from following their lifestyle dreams, in the post below I proudly announced that I’ve been practicing what I preach. I’d been searching for a way ...
  • A Boomers’ guide to volunteering after retirement November 17, 2015
    The face of volunteerism is changing. Challenging economical conditions, advances in technology, and boomers approaching retirement age are major influences on how non-profit organizations operate differently than in the past. There are many more people seeking help from service organizations, but there are also many more people who are volunteering. These and other social trends inspired ...
  • Volunteering Overseas: Passion and Purpose September 23, 2014
    Volunteering Overseas Have you thought about being a volunteer abroad? Having a sense of purpose, and feeling that we have made a difference in the lives of others, becomes increasingly important to many people as they reach the later stage of their career or enter retirement years. Good causes are all around us, each with compelling reasons ...
  • Opportunities – Choose what suits you best July 28, 2014
    Now that you see the potential for seizing opportunities and creating an income stream to supplement your retirement, how will you choose what to do?  That’s easy:  Choose what suits you best.  Your strengths, your skills, your interests and – very importantly – the lifestyle that you want to live. If you want to travel there ...
  • How to Start an Online Business July 21, 2013
    Do you want to start an online business? Are you considering an online business? Do you want to start an online business but do not know where to start? Are you currently running an offline business and would like to utilize the power of the internet to grow your profit? Are you an online business owner who’s ...
  • 5 Ways on How to Manage Finances with Technology February 18, 2013
    Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: Did you know that between the years of 1946 and 1964, there were more than 76 million babies who were born in the United States? It is these individuals who make up what is known as the “baby boomer generation”. This means that many of them recall the invention ...
  • Six golden tips for cheap retirement travel December 30, 2012
    When you retire from the employment or business that has kept you busy many people finally get the chance to do the things that they truly want to do. Work life, family life, mortgages, bills…It sometimes seems as if all these things have conspired over the years to stop you from enjoying the travel experience that you ...

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Goal setting mistakes of baby boomers and how to avoid them.

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Don’t get so comfortable with your life that you forget to make goals. These four goal setting mistakes are the reason why many people fail to achieve what they want.

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Caring for Aging Parents: How to Make Life Easier for Yourself and Your Parents

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