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When to Retire from Your First Career and How to Plan Your Next Move

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Besides being at the top of their respective game at one time or another, all three second-guessed their initial decision to retire. You might not knock on your former company’s doors months after blowing out the candles on your well wishes in retirement cake. Here’s how to know when it might be time to retire from career No.

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

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It’s The Intern. The Intern does not disappoint in that regard. 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). I’ll stop there for The Intern. It’s not The Internship.

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How to Handle Haters: Advice from 3 Resilient Entrepreneurs

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If your decisions about a career move, relocation, lifestyle or relationship mean your loved ones refuse to support you, even threaten to leave your life, the road ahead of you can be a long one. After I retired, my wife and family wanted me to take a predictable, boring agency job. Bruce Cameron. Photo by @Miverano/Twenty20.

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7 Places to Volunteer and Give Back to the Community

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Although many international disasters are managed by local volunteers, the Red Cross responds wherever needed and recruits local volunteers to apply to become part of its international disaster response roster. You can also support patients by providing rides to treatments or sharing your personal experience as a survivor.

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Do You Know Your Lifestyle Ratios?

Stephanie LH Calahan

It might be fun to come up with a few lifestyle ratios to help you measure and move toward your personal goals.  In the example below, this person is well on their way to retiring. Your Lifestyle Goals. What are your lifestyle ratios?    Here are a few for your consideration: Passive vs. Active Income.

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12 Things Even the Best Leaders Can Forget

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They could be external in the form of a market win or internal in the form of a superstar performer. Leaders need to put the necessary resources into studying the market and external conditions, as well as the internal state of the company, to determine a need for evolution and a plan for how it will happen. They forget to lead change.

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

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In an informal poll, we asked friends, family members and neighbors the same question, and the results were unanimous: A retired accountant: yes. They are sensitive to the environment they’re in as well as their internal, emotional environment. So you think you’re creative? We’re going to guess you do. A neuroscience researcher: yes.