My take on retirement

My take on retirement

Since graduating from Ryerson in Toronto, I spent 12 years in management roles with Canadian Johns Manville and American Standard, and 8 years teaching at Humber College in Toronto before founding Harold Taylor Enterprises Ltd., an association management company, in...
Planning for retirement, Part 3

Planning for retirement, Part 3

I’ve been semi-retired from my time management seminars,  speaking, and consulting business for about 12 years now. But I have been transitioning into semi-retirement for about 32 years. In Part 1, I mentioned that Stephen Covey’s book, 7 Habits of Highly...
Planning for retirement, Part 2

Planning for retirement, Part 2

Realize that retirement is more than just stopping work. It’s a significant life transition and merits planning. Include those things in your planning calendar that made your job interesting and challenging and provided a sense of fulfillment. You can do this by...
Planning for retirement

Planning for retirement

I’m only 91, and fortunately, not yet at the cane or walker stage. I think that if you retire at 65, you could still have about a third of your life ahead of you. So, if you don’t spend a proportionate amount of time planning for that retirement, you’re...
How to prevent memory loss and improve recall

How to prevent memory loss and improve recall

Part 1: How Our Memory Works. Longer chapters of my book, How to Grow Older without Growing Old, will be broken into shorter parts so they can be read more quickly. This is Part 1 of Chapter 6 of my book, How to Grow Older Without Growing Old. The Growing Older book...