Baby boomer Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. Last September he gave a lecture at Carnegie-Mellon as part of a series titled “The Last Lecture.” Today he died in Virginia, at the age of 47.
As he started the lecture he announced that he was dying of […]
Like all business owners, baby boomers are dealing with the current financial mess in different ways. Here are some suggestions for you, depending on your degree of optimism and your risk tolerance:
1. Restrict your cash flow and focus on essentials. Decide what is essential for your business and what is nice to have but not […]
Finally. The modeling industry is waking up to the reality of 72 million baby boomers with $2 trillion in buying power. And we know that women do most of the spending, so marketers are now starting to target them. Case in point:
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If you have been reading my posts, you know I’ve been talking with Bill Losey about retirement planning.
Today I received his Retirement Intelligence newsletter/blog with a good post on a subject I’ve been meaning to talk about: The cyclical nature of the market and he did a nice job of summarizing the ups and downs […]
Henry Ford published this purpose statement in 1907:
“I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest […]
I confess, I have been sliding towards Apple for a long time. I bought an iPod a few years ago, and used iTunes. My old PC/laptop is on its last legs (almost 3 years old), and everyone has been saying “buy a Mac.” I was hesitant until a friend allowed me to […]
Rico at ContractWorker had an interesting post about some research on work-at-home types that got me to thinking about how our work habits differ and how different our lives can be when we get to work/rest/play according to our own body clocks, and not according to a restrictive job.
My husband just retired a couple of […]
Baby Boomers are good volunteers. Some have already retired, while others have no children at home and a little free time.
We boomers know how good it feels to do things for others. We remember Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, and school volunteer projects. Many of us have lived in our communities for […]
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Baby Boomers: July is a great time to take stock of your personal and business life. Although it is not the traditional time to do this, it’s perfect as a mid-year stock-taking and possible course correction.
Being a “words” person, I got hung up on looking for […]
Iowa’s smoking ban went into effect yesterday (July 1). The only two exceptions, as I understand it, are casinos (can’t stop those gamblers from smoking, can we?) and veterans hospitals (maybe on the assumption that they served their country and they have earned the right to kill themselves with smoking if they want).
You can […]
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