By Mary Lloyd, CEO Mining Silver
Steve Juetten graciously invited me to write a piece for his blog for the Seattle Examiner. He posted it this morning. He’s a financial planner who”gets it” about the need to mesh financial planning with non-fiancial planning to have “retirement” be satisfying. I’m hoping Steve will do a guest piece here, but in the meantime, check out my guest post as well as the rest of his blog.
By Mary Lloyd, CEO, Mining Silver
Clips from a business speech: (about 13 minutes, but it covers a lot of ground)
By Mary Lloyd, CEO, Mining Silver
When I started this blog over a year ago, I did so with quite a bit of reluctance. I am to that point in life where flexibility is paramount and I didn’t want to be bound be the “musts” of blogging. Thou shalt blog at least once a day. Thou shalt blog no more than 400 words at a time. Thou shalt be prepared to blog while on vacation and otherwise away from the space where you are prepared and outfitted to blog…in any corner of the world at any time of the day.
Obviously, I have not played by those rules and the most glaring example has been the last three weeks. You haven’t heard a peep from me. I’m really sorry about that. But I can explain.
It’s not anything awful. It’s just…well…I’ve been living my life. And that involved a bike trip followed by two weeks on the road in Colorado doing book tour stuff and having some fun. I’m not a fan of the “I’m making myself dinner” style of blogging, so you didn’t hear about all that.
I finally realized as I was slithering out from under the resulting pile of guilt this afternoon that those who read this are most likely just as happy with that as I am. When I write here, I hope it’s to offer something useful. If I write too often, I may actually be offering you less. Case in point: I am subscribed to several online newsletters and the ones that come even once a week are starting to wear me out. TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
So this post is just to set the record straight. I will write when I can and you will read when you want. Hopefully, we can enjoy each other best that way. If you need more, please feel free to complain by sending me a note. Or commenting on this post. Thanks.
Life is sweetest when rules are kept to a minimum. Down with blogging tyranny!
If Not Retirement, WHAT?
The downturn has a silver lining if you use it to customize your plans for “retirement.” Mary Lloyd will discuss how to do that and sign her book, Supercharged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love.
Thursday, Sept. 10 at 7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Vancouver Plaza
7700 NE Fourth Plain Blvd,
Vancouver, WA 98662
(360) 253-9007
Join us if you can!
JOIN US IF YOU CAN!
Sunday, August 23, 3:30 PM
Barnes & Noble Booksellers at The Citadel, Colorado Springs
795 Citadel Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80909
719-637-8282
AUTHOR DISCUSSION AND SIGNING – If Not Retirement, WHAT?
Tuesday, August 25, 9:10 AM
Radio Interview with Rick Crandall, KEZW-AM 1430
(streams online at www.kezw.com)
Tuesday, August 25, 7:30 PM
Tattered Cover Book Store, Colfax Avenue
2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80206
303-322-7727
AUTHOR DISCUSSION AND BOOK SIGNING –If Not Retirement, WHAT?
HappyThon 09 is kicking-off
the 10th Annual Happiness Month this August
Here are 12 reasons for me to be happy…
1. It’s summer!
2. Babies…and GRAND babies
3. Our national parks
4. Roads that get us where we want to go
5. Heartwarming stories
6. People who do amazing and positive things
7. The innocent kindness of children
8. Friends who make you laugh
9. Funny movies
10. Breathing…that really is worth smiling about
11. A fresh, juicy peach–or some other goodie from the farmers market
12. Living life on my own terms
Pop quiz! These are mine…now it’s your turn. List 12 things that make you happy.
Steve Juetten has a great post this morning titled “Six retirement traps and how to avoid them.” He’s a financial advisor who really gets it! His first two “traps” are lack of a retirement map and self-limiting attitudes. He goes on the mention four financial bad ideas, but it’s great that his post starts where those who are thinking about retirement need to start–with what they want to DO and how they want to go about it.
There are a lot of pieces to this retirment puzzle and we each have a different set to work with. Is a move to a warmer, drier climate really what you need? Or are you going to be oblivious of the weather of you get involved in that amazingly cool thing you thought had already passed you by? Are you assuming you know the answer to those–and similar –questions or have you taken the time to carefully check them out?
Do what you can to get the financial piece to work. Do even more to know yourself well enough to have a clear idea of the lifestyle, involvement, and adventures you want when you decide it’s time to step into this next stage of life.
Mary Lloyd author of Supercharged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love and Brian Acker, financial advisor with Edward Jones are teaming up for a discussion of what makes sense now as a plan when retirement looms as the usual option.
There are a whole lot more ways to go about it than “quit working” or “keep working.”
The hour-long session will be held July 20 at 7:00 PM.
Boswell Book Company
2559 N. Downer Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
414-332-1181
Book signing to follow.
Come join us and help yourself make better plans!
Well, the Key Questions have been fun for me, but they haven’t created a conversation, so we’re moving on. The Mining Silver website is about to undergo yet another renovation, so stay tuned for all the exciting new stuff that’ll be there once we get it done.
In the meantime, let’s end the Key question series with one last question here on the blog. (For those of you who only see them here, we’ve been changing them out on the website every month as well.)
The last Key Question:
WHY DON’T RICH GUYS RETIRE?
If it’s all that great, why aren’t Warren Buffett, Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, and the like riding around in their motor homes and playing golf???
Mary Lloyd will be discussing alternatives to the “Golden Years” version of retirement at:
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
206-366-3333
Saturday, July 11, at 6:30 PM
She will also be signing books.
Come! Ask questions, share concerns, or just hang out with some interesting people–and learn more about her book: Supercharged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love