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Charting a Course to Correct Information

I suspect that as a population the world has never looked at charts as much as the last few months during the Covid 19 pandemic. Whether it is the stock market, your shares, your superannuation, your wage levels, health situation,……

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April 27, 2020 - 11:00 am April 27, 2020Finances, Health, Our World chart, corona, covid 19, data, missleading, retirement, statistics 0

Get it right the first time

Retirement. I have retired twice so far and I have another retirement planned for next year. I haven’t returned to work because I wanted to. On both occasions, there was a crisis and they asked me to steer them through……

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December 9, 2019 - 11:15 am December 9, 2019Doing LIfe, Finances, Health fear, finances, health, important, retirement 0

If it’s going to be…

The Speaker Said… A few years ago I was in a motivational conference and the speaker kept repeating the phrase “If it’s going to be – it’s up to me”. I puzzled over that for a few days wondering if……

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October 16, 2019 - 12:12 pm November 4, 2019Doing LIfe health, relationships, retirement 0

Retiring right

The way Australians approach retirement planning is in desperate need of review. If you Google “Retirement in Australia”, the first page is filled with:-  Advertisements for places to live in retirement, A Government site that talks about pensions and taxation,……

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September 2, 2019 - 11:10 am September 2, 2019Doing LIfe, Finances, Health finances, planning, retirement, work identity 0

Documenting your life in photographs

Our Slides. Most of us have years of slides stored in slide boxes throughout the house. I confess to having a cardboard box with probably many thousands of slide boxes in it. Many of those slides are of landscapes that……

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March 11, 2019 - 2:20 pm March 11, 2019Photography album, Blokes, photos, retired blokes, retirement, scanner, scanning, slides 2

Be a Real Man

Since early in my life, the world has told me to be “a real man”. By that they meant – don’t cry, hold your feelings inside and basically get over whatever is happening to you in your life. But as I……

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October 9, 2018 - 5:31 pm October 15, 2018Doing LIfe depression, fashion, feelings, listening, men, retirement, retreat group 0

Turn Turn Turn

If you’re a regular on this website, you will remember that at the end of last year my family headed off to the northern hemisphere to get our first ever white Christmas. I must admit that after sitting for years……

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June 13, 2018 - 9:22 am June 13, 2018Doing LIfe, Health activities, Friends, retired men, retirement, seasons, social, winter 1

You need this more than you realise

  Flourishing Can Only Happen With Others. Writing in his book “Flourish” about positive psychology, Martin Seligman says “very little that is positive is solitary.” * He points out that the last time you laughed uproariously, the last time you……

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May 8, 2018 - 12:46 pm May 8, 2018Doing LIfe, Health fellowship, Friends, intimacy, needs, network, retired men, retirement, social 0

The Problem of Retirement

The Big Deal for Retired Blokes. There is one thing that bothers many retired men. It seems that when you retire from a busy life, a hole develops in your life. You feel hemmed in by the very freedom you……

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February 20, 2018 - 12:04 pm February 22, 2018Doing LIfe depression, do what you are, feeling lost, importance off work, options, personality test, problems, retired men, retirement 0
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