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...

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 from...

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 because...

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 more...

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

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

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

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

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 on...

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

Goal setting can be an emotive subject, the topic often being associated with successful people or used by those working in the personal...

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

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...

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...

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

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...