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As I Enter My 60s, Here’s the Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self

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Live and learn, right? While I appreciated learning about the PR side of the business, my heart was on the writer’s side. We consciously prioritized our professional aspirations and relished the freedom of our child-free lifestyle. I’m 60 and still learning new things decades into my career.

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Modern Homesteading and the Trend Towards Greater Independence

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For example, the growing FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement is all about independence.    Another example is modern homesteading, which the Small Town Homesteading blog defines as : Homesteading is a lifestyle of the pursuit of self-sufficiency and sustainability. But there are other aspects to this trend.

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Novels have a beginning, middle and end. Leslie Jordan was likely familiar with third acts.

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How ‘The Intern’ Explores Transference and Its Impacts on Personal Growth

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In other words, you already know this film is going to have a lot of good kitchens, beautiful clothing and real people having real, human problems. First, the obligatory plot outline: Retired executive Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) gets a gig as a “senior” intern at an up-and-coming fashion website run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway).

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). A twist of fate post-retirement put his hard-earned savings at stake, leading him to rally to get a stretch of land for a new residential area in Delhi.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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I want my financial future to be bright and to have no worries when I’m older and ready to retire. I’ve learned that my daily choices make a big difference in my long-term happiness. I often think I need new clothes, but when I clean out or organize my closet, I realize I have lots of options and everything I need at my fingertips.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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To learn about the curious malady known as “decision fatigue,” I was given a very simple assignment: Wear the same outfit and automate as many daily decisions as possible for two weeks, then write about whether it gave me more mental clarity. This was interesting to learn, and terrible for my science. That was it. Easy breezy.

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