Setting Your Lifestyle Ceiling

As we approach the holidays each year, it becomes a wonderful time to spend with family and friends. It also becomes a time to step back, count our blessings, and reflect on how fortunate we are. You might also find that your budget is tighter this time of year, and a little concerned about how that will impact 2016. Let’s take a moment to quiet those concerns, and talk about lifestyle ceilings.

Imagine yourself as a high school senior (which may be painful, depending on how you styled your hair back then), and consider your options for after graduation. College could’ve been an option, but it wouldn’t necessarily have been a guarantee. Chances are, the likelihood of entering the workforce was much higher. Today, it’s pretty much expected that anyone who wants to attend college can. They might end up with student loans, they might have to work their way through it, they might even live at home to save costs, but it’s very much a given.

Making the Most of Your Morning

Whether you’ve been retired for ten years, or you’re on the last leg of your nine-to-five, embracing the morning can help elevate your productivity, allowing you to make the most of every day. 

Life is incredibly busy, with hardly any signs of slowing down. Hitting snooze is one of the easiest decisions to make in the morning, but the payoff of deciding to get up and out of bed, choosing to create a better day from the moment your eyes open – those are the decisions that will allow you to transform your mornings into a time of true rejuvenation.

We’ve narrowed it down to three simple decisions – eat, refocus, and get moving.

3 Retirement Blogs You Have to Read (& Might Even Make You Start Your Own!)

It’s no shock that retirement brings about a lot of free time. Some fill it to the brim, while others enjoy a slower pace. No matter where you fall on the spectrum, blogging is a hobby that can keep up with whatever speed you decide to take.

Whether you decide to start your own blog, or just browse through the musings of fellow retirees, here’s three retirement blogs that we think you’ll love!

1.   Home Free Adventures

      Couple Tim & Lynne Martin sell their home, live out of suitcases, and spend their days touring the world with the money they would have spent on their Californian lifestyle. Lynne writes about their travels, gives advice to others who may choose to follow in their footsteps, and maintains a nationally recognized blog all the while. Read Tim’s take on how they found themselves traveling full-time here!