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30 New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Make 2024 Healthier, Happier & More Secure

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Save more for retirement. Increase contributions to retirement accounts such as your 401(k) or IRA. Regularly review and update insurance policies to ensure adequate coverage at the best price. Become a mentor. Set savings goals. Set a target savings goal and consistently put money aside each month. Reduce debt.

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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

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CEO Company: Security Investment Partners , an investment management firm in San Diego Reason for Breakup: Disagreement over partner’s retirement date Winning Strategy: The partner eventually left with a clean break and joined another firm, keeping the friendship intact. He is 25 years older, and he was my mentor early in my career.

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The Quest for My Best Sales Month Ever

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The other offers me an unsolicited assignment to write about the relationships that formed after a retired soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder sent his Purple Heart to a NASCAR driver. I call Pat, a salesman friend who has been an invaluable mentor to me. The only way to $14,772.01 Finally she responds.

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Future-Proof Your Career

Office Dynamics

I’m always amazed when I meet someone in the workplace and I ask them what their goals are for the next year or I talk to them about expanding their skill sets and they say to me, “I plan to coast until I retire. I think to myself, “How are you so sure everything is going to stay the same until you retire three or four years from now?”

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Strategies for Expanding Your Professional Network

Eat Your Career

Most are very reasonably priced (under $30) and they’re often centered around a fun event like happy hour at a local pub. If you’re a young professional, you don’t necessarily want to spend your time volunteering with retired folks. My fellow mentors are all amazing people who share my values and have similar personal goals.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

And due to outsourcing, Boomers not retiring, and Gen Yers being told (by older generations mind you) to get degrees in their "passion" or that "any degree" is a path to success.you end up with a lot of overworked, underpaid 20somethings. Anonymous has some valid points (with a side of bitterness, however understandable).

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. Prices always tend towards marginal costs. GM wants to sell their cars for higher prices so they can actually make a profit, but customers don’t really care.

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