KEY POINTS

• Only 5 percent of folks are mentally ready for the “early retirement pink slip.” Are you?
• Nearly 70 percent of folks are lost when they retire, even if they are financially ready.
• Start thinking today about what you will be doing every day once you retire (even if you are not
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Meditation is working with your mind to be in the present moment. This moment, the moment you are reading this sentence is all you have. The past
is gone and cannot be changed regardless of what you do. The future is not here yet.

Training your brain to be in the present will help you deal with issu...

With our thoughts constantly wandering back and forth between the past and the future, chances are we spend the least amount of our time in the present. Mindfulness is simply a moment-by-moment awareness of what is happening around us, without passing judgment. Being mindful is about being present a...

If you can improve your willpower, you will be much more able to make the sort of positive changes you want to see. There are many tools at your disposal with which you can improve your willpower.

In his course, The Neuroscience of Everyday Life, Professor Sam Wang explains willpower from the persp...

 “The brain-matter is plastic,” said William James in his book The Principles of Psychology, published 1890. It was an incredible discovery. 

Science now shows us that the brain is moldable at any stage of life, not only when we are young but for as long as we live. Research in the area of neuropla...