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The traditional script for your fifties reads like a countdown to retirement. But that thinking belongs to an era when a single job lasted 30 years and ended with a gold watch and a fat pension. What if instead of winding down, you could reinvent your work life while basking in the glow of a …
Picture a place where your morning routine involves sipping locally-grown coffee while answering emails from your terrace, overlooking mist-covered mountains. The afternoon? A quick walk to a coworking space where English flows as freely as the highland breeze. This isn’t a digital nomad fantasy – it’s daily life in Boquete, a small mountain town in …
Last week we explored the retirement crisis facing Generation X, and explored a different way to think about it, especially if you are working toward “just enough” savings to retire at the conventional age. Now we need to look at a plan of action. What’s the alternative to the traditional retirement myth? Originally, the “unretirement” …
There’s a new form of status, and it’s not about the size of your house or the car you drive. Whether you want to think in terms of digital nomads, expats, or simply location independent, the ability to live and work from anywhere in the world is a purer form of freedom than most Americans …
You’ve seen the headlines… and they’re not pretty. Here’s just one recent example from Forbes: Generation X On The Brink: The Stark Reality Of Their Grim Retirement Outlook The article reveals that the typical Generation X household has only $40,000 saved for retirement. We’re talking about people in midlife, currently at ages 45 to 60. …
The conventional wisdom about retirement is clear: Work hard for decades, save diligently despite recurring financial crises, then settle into a life of leisure. But that model is fundamentally broken. The truth about retirement might surprise you. In a recent Business Insider article, Hannah Seo explores how the traditional American approach to retirement often leads …
The traditional retirement dream isn’t working out quite like we were promised. People with substantial nest eggs find themselves paralyzed by fear. Even rich retirees fear outliving their money, and that deprives them of truly living the life they’ve worked so hard to achieve. A recent Wall Street Journal analysis reveals a startling truth: wealthy …
You’ve seen the headlines… and they’re not pretty. Here’s just one recent example from Forbes: Generation X On The Brink: The Stark Reality Of Their Grim Retirement Outlook The article reveals that the typical Generation X household has only $40,000 saved for retirement. We’re talking about people in midlife, currently at ages 45 to 60. …
Uncertainly rules everything around us. Political turmoil, rapidly advancing technology, and the collapse of the stage of life formerly known as “retirement” lead the pack among people our age, along with too many other issues to list. Meanwhile, the two leading desires in the face of our collective anxiety are “start a business” and “leave …
Yep, we’re still here. You’ve likely noticed that Further has been on hiatus. And that’s because we’ve been busy building out an entirely new business infrastructure to support our mission here. That includes a sharp new focus on what we can help you with. Given that we’re approaching the holiday season, we’ll wait to roll …
As we approach the final four months of 2024, it’s time to acknowledge a big milestone. Yep, the eldest Gen Xers start turning 60 next year. And just in time, we have a new study that says that human beings age at a molecular level in an accelerated burst at the age 60. At age …
Back in 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the year 2000, technology would advance to the point that we would only have to work 15 hours per week, tops. This would in turn leave us time to pursue creative endeavors, hobbies, and charitable works. That didn’t happen, obviously. Instead, technology eliminated jobs but …