The Means AND the Ends

The Means AND The Ends is the recognition that "getting there" is at least as important as where you're going. These posts are a curated collection of articles I've written as well as interesting finds that can be serious, humorous, and sometimes skeptical about investing and saving for retirement while being mindful that we must enjoy the ride all along the way.

Cheap Flights to Europe Starting at $69 One-way

Travel

WOW Air is once again offering $69 one-way — and $207 round-trip — flights to Europe from several U.S. cities.Round-trip flights start at $207 from Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh; from $211 from San Francisco and Miami; and from $218 from Boston.

For those super cheap prices, travelers will be able to visit Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Paris, and Stockholm, on select dates from this September through March of next year.

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How to Drive a Classic Rolls-Royce, or a DeLorean, Any Time You Want

Lifestyle

Many Americans dream of driving fabulous, unique, vintage cars. The vast majority of Americans never get to actually do it.

Sure, we see them around—I live in Brooklyn and I don’t own a car, but as I walk around my neighborhood, I spy things: a Carman Ghia in robin’s-egg blue, a boxy Land Rover from the 1980s. And I wonder what it would be like, if only for a day, to tool around in a classic.

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4 Ways to Find Your Retirement Number

Financial Planning, Retirement

Before you can start saving for retirement, you’ve got to figure out how much you’ll need to save. Finding your “retirement number” can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it, with the caveat that more complicated plans are likely to produce the most accurate retirement number. However, even a simple “off the rack” plan will get you enough information to build a solid retirement savings strategy. Here are some of the most popular approaches for coming up with your retirement number.

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The 5 Best Exercises For A Healthy Body – Longevity LIVE

Health & Fitness

We no longer have to guess. Harvard Medical School released a paper outlining the only five exercises we need to practice to get the best outcome for our bodies. And the results are surprising! Don’t like going to the gym? No problem! Part of the reason that these exercises are so fantastic is that you don’t necessarily

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Dentists: Don’t ‘fail’ retirement. Wisdom for your next chapter

Financial Planning, Retirement

Dentists who’ve experienced the stressful retirement transition say that it pays to be prepared emotionally as well as financially, and to begin preparations years before hanging up that cheek retractor for good. If you want to succeed at retirement, take the following advice to heart:

Slowly transition out. Abruptly stopping work can be a huge shock. A better way involves gradually scaling back on work commitments. For example, one dentist I know is transitioning down to working two days per week and plans to continue doing so for several years.Keith Lawrence, author of Your Retirement Quest: 10

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This Is the Perfect Retirement Age—and It’s Not 65

Lifestyle, Retirement

Counting the clock until your retirement? You might want to put away your pension plan. According to a Japanese doctor, you should never clock out of the workforce—or do so well after the age of 65, at least.

In an interview with Japan Times, Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, a physician and chairman emeritus of St. Luke’s International University, said not retiring was one of his secrets to living a long, healthy life.

Before you roll your eyes, consider this: When most people lived until age 68, the typical retirement age was around 65 years old. Now that people are living much longer, they should also hold off on retiring, Dr. Hinohara says. Staying busy well into your senior years gives you a sense of purpose and fulfillment, which could keep you healthy as you age. And doing so couldn’t be easier; just check out the perfect jobs for seniors.

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6 Travel Apps That Will Help You Save Money on Your Next Vacation

Lifestyle, Travel

The last thing anyone wants to do is spend more money than necessary when planning a vacation. But luckily, there are plenty of great apps to help you cut your travel costs.For every stage of a trip, from scheduling flights to booking a hotel, apps can help travelers see a wide variety of listings, according to Edward Pizzarello, travel blogger and editor of Pizza in Motion. TravelSkills blogger Chris McGinnis adds that some travel apps “are also helpful in alerting you to schedule changes, seat assignments . . . so it’s worth having them on your phone.”

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When should you make ‘course corrections’ to your retirement plan?

Financial Planning, Retirement

Course corrections — whether you’re flying to the moon or sailing across an ocean or just shopping for groceries — are a necessary part of life.

Consider, for instance, the historic Apollo 11 flight plan in which there are 13 references to the term “course correction.” Without those and other course corrections, it’s unlikely the astronauts would have reached their goals of walking on the moon and then returning safely to Earth.

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Your retirement planning starts with Social Security

Retirement, Social Security

Right now is the perfect time to start planning for a secure, comfortable retirement. And you can count on Social Security to help you begin the process.

First, we encourage you to set up an online my Social Security account so you can verify your lifetime earnings record and make sure you get credit for all of your contributions to the Social Security system through the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) payroll taxes. If you haven’t set up your personal my Social Security account yet, you can do so at www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount.

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How To Get The Most Out Of Retirement

Lifestyle, Retirement

The best thing about retirement, I have found, is that for the first time in my life I’m in charge of my time. From kindergarten through college, from that first to that last job, my time and tasks have been governed by others.

Now that I’m a couple of years into retirement, I decide what I’ll do and when I’ll do it.

 As liberating as this may sound, you still should be strategic in planning how you are going to spend the next couple of decades.

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A healthy mind is important for well-being in later life finds new study

Health & Fitness, Lifestyle

New European research suggests that psychosocial factors such as anxiety and depression may have an even larger impact on well-being in later life than physical health. The participants’ levels of subjective well-being were measured by a questionnaire from the World Health Organization with the

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