Resilience: Your Most Valuable Retirement Skill. Here’s How to Build It. (Book Review.)

  The takeaway:  Nancy’s Schlossberg’s book, Too Young to Be Old, provides research-backed methods for building resilience against common life events occurring in our third act.  These events include facing ageism, building a new identity and sense of purpose outside of work, as well as dealing with health challenges and relationship changes–to name a few.  … [Read more…]

Book Review: The Psychology of Money. (Hint: It’s All About Your Soft Skills!)

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The takeaway:  How we succeed or fail with money is not based on our income, education, occupation, or investing skills.  Instead, it’s based on factors like our behavior, attitude, and humility to name a few.  These attributes are money “soft skills.”  If there were ever a time to master the soft skills of money, it’s … [Read more…]

Deliberate Purposeful Practice Wins the Day: Not Talent! Book Review.

  The takeaway:Deliberate purposeful practice wins the day–not talent. So say FSU’s renowned Anders Ericsson along with Robert Pool in the book Peak:  Secrets from the New Science of Expertise.  Whether you want to pen the great American novel, improve your golf game, or learn to draw, deliberate practice is the path—no talent required.  $$$ … [Read more…]