Getting Started in A Financially Secure Retirement
If you want to make the most of your retirement years, you have to seriously think about the retirement lifestyle you want and the path that will get you there. In order to do this, you need reliable retirement information that will allow you to properly chart your course. Nobody knows this better than author Henry Hebeler, who retired from the corporate world more than fifteen years ago--and quickly discovered that much of the retirement planning advice available wasn't helping people accomplish their goals.
More people than ever are making the jump from corporate offices to home offices, taking control of their futures, being their own bosses, and starting their own consultancies. Consulting is a bigger business than ever and growing every day.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Audiobook, MP3)Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered.
Leap Before You Look: Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and into the Moment
Do you sense that you are overflowing with gifts you don't know how to express? Have too many opportunities passed you by? Maybe it's time to "leap before you look," suggests Arjuna Ardagh. "Simply begin," he teaches. "Don't wait for the perfect time and place, or until you've accumulated the right amount of knowledge."
Parents know that the road to lifelong good health starts with healthy eating and plenty of exercise. Getting kids and families started down this path is easy with a little assistance.
