How To Outlive Your Lifetime

Finally, the foundational lessons for financial success and personal happiness have been identified in simple language. Sir Contra de Malta and his long-time friends, associates, and professional contacts have spent many years teaching individuals, businesses, entrepreneurs, and retirees in the Americas, Europe, and Asia about the accumulation and preservation of wealth. Their collective teachings, through lectures, books, essays, and newsletters, as well as onsite and online seminars, provide a rational look at the real world and rapidly transitioning social, political, and economic environments. The objective is for you to create and maintain your own sustainable blueprint—your plan—for building a secure and lasting estate, one that you and your family can rely on regardless of economic, political, or cultural uncertainties “Never Outlive Your Money” is the best financial advice book I’ve ever read—and I’ve read them all! Overall, “Never Outlive Your Money” was a fast but informative read that I’ll be referencing for years to come.” — Kathy V., 34, Attorney, Florida

Are you worried about saving for retirement? Do believe your savings won't allow you to scale back from the 9 to 5 and focus on fulfilling your dreams? Whether you're just beginning to chart your career or you're a baby boomer making plans to retire, a fulfilled and fun retirement is within reach if you use author Scott Harstad's three-legged stool approach. The key is to do your homework and make informed decisions. Harstad, a certified retirement planning consultant, uses more than 25 years experience in banking, insurance and real estate to show how anyone---especially baby boomers---can boost retirement income and savings. With careful planning and a diversified portfolio, you can enjoy your retirement without worrying how to fund it.

Creating Retirement Income, a Lightbulb Press book, is for anyone thinking about retirement planning and variable annuities. Planning for retirement and creating a nest egg on which to live comfortably is on everyone's mindshy;shy;from people in their twenties to those for whom retirement is just around the corner. Variable annuities provide the answers to millions of investors, yet there's still a mystery that surrounds them. This colorfully illustrated guide simplifies variable annuities and ways to create retirement wealth. Written in collaboration with the National Association of Variable Annuities, this user-friendly, easy-to-read and easy-to-understand guide to will appeal to anyone planning for retirement. Created by the authors of the best-selling Wall Street Journal guides, Creating Retirement Income will show you how to: Plan for a comfortable retirement; Choose among different annuities; Develop a diversified portfolio; Sort out the facts of social security And much more

A guide to conducting genealogical research, focusing on the role of electronic databases, computer programs, and Internet resources in revolutionizing the process of tracing family histories. Includes charts, forms, exercises, Web site addresses, and bibliographies.

The information in this book is extensive. You can use it to sound glib at the water cooler, on the golf course or at a cocktail party. But that would not be it’s best use. Instead, use it to improve your life. The information contained in this book will provide you with the questions to ask, and motivate you to find an advisor you can trust. The next step is to have them prepare a comprehensive, written financial plan for you. A financial plan, like a fine tapestry, should be artfully woven to produce a valuable life chart. Next, implement the plan. Get your house in order. Understand your cash flow. Harmonize your investment portfolio so that it will support you throughout your retirement. Properly insure the risks of life that are: illness, disability, death, property damage, lawsuits and a lengthy long-term care stay. The latter can put you and your family in bankruptcy and/or dependent on a government welfare program. Lastly, carefully plan for your estate so that your worldly goods go to those whom you choose, not some agency of the government. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the great works of the greatest masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving poetry of words and storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Dubliners (James Joyce) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Howards End (E. M. Forster) Le Père Goriot (Honoré de Balzac) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Anne of Green Gables Series (L. M. Montgomery) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) Diary of a Nobody (Grossmith) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) Kama Sutra Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) The Divine Comedy (Dante) The Rise of Silas Lapham (William Dean Howells) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) Red and the Black (Stendhal) Rob Roy (Walter Scott) Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome) Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) My Antonia (Willa Cather) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) The Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) Faust (Goethe) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)