The Baby Boomer Financial Wake Up Call

Dr. Shirley provides formulas for 40- and 50-year olds who have just responded to the financial wake-up call. She shares examples, success stories, and case studies of real people from her financial planning practice of 18 years, accompanied by charts, forms, and tips to guide 40- and 50-year old readers on a journey to financial self-sufficiency.

If you were born between 1946 and 1964, Robert Edwards wants to help you age gracefully, retire comfortably, and proactively adapt to the impending speed bumps that are likely to crop up as you travel down the retirement leg of your Baby Boomer life's journey. Edwards is on a mission to help you figure out your ideal weight, diet, exercise plan, and so much more; because aging isn't as easy as it used to be--especially during an era when 50 is viewed as the new 30. Throughout this savvy Boomers guide to aging, Edwards explains how your Baby Boomer body is changing, and how you need to support those changes so you can continue to enjoy a high quality of life. Two of the largest challenges Boomers face is Alzheimer's and poverty. To help with those challenges, Edwards provides proactive solutions that sharpen mental capabilities and prevent financial disasters from occurring. With a great percentage of Boomers facing retirement without a proper financial cushion, it's vital to start building your financial resources immediately. Edward's chapter on finances might just be the "wake-up" call you've needed to jolt you out of complacency and unwise spending patterns so you won't be blindsided when you reach retirement age. Edwards says that the right time to take charge is NOW. People are living longer than ever, but what good is living longer if health woes, financial disaster, or both, tarnish your Golden Age? By implementing Edward's suggestions on hormones, nutritional supplements, dietary habits, stress relief, and other essentials, you'll likely spend less time in a doctor's office and a lot more time on the tennis court!

This book is dramatic wake-up call for a generation of overspent and under-saved Americans who face the very real possibility of outliving their money. Yesterdays retirees were supported by guaranteed income sources. Today, baby boomers are looking at a very different picture, one where they are increasingly responsible for generating their retirement income from personal savings while facing a longer life expectancy and astounding leaps in expenses. Key Selling Points: explores the seven key challenges that stand between baby boomers and a successful retirement; helps baby boomers recognize and address the key challenges to retirement; guides baby boomers to better plan for the income they will need so they can achieve the retirement they deserve.

In Wake-Up Call, financial planning expert Tim Chang reveals the ways governments, banks, and unions make decisions that financially hurt the very people theyre designed to help. He also shows how your own decision-making can hinder your efforts to grow and protect your wealth and offers guidance on how to get the advice you needso that you can achieve your long-term financial goals. In 2010, Tim introduced the idea that the biggest barrier to achieving greater wealth is a lack of financial literacythe skills and knowledge to make wise decisions with your money. Backed by rigorous research and Tims 30 years of experience in the financial services field, Wake-Up Call offers further insight into the institutional and personal forces that keep you from realizing your full financial potentialfrom globalization to your own emotional biases. Whether youve been investing for years, are just starting out, or simply want to feel confident about your financial future, Wake-Up Call is required reading.

The legacy of the male baby boomer will be defined by how they choose to handle the physical, emotional, and financial burden they leave to the next generation. Author Dan Zeman is passionate about educating and motivating his fellow male baby boomers about the aging process. Today, these men are living much longer than they expected and will be forced to come to terms being gifted an increased life expectancy, both good and bad. As an exercise physiologist for over 35 years, Zeman has been in the trenches of the health, fitness, and sports medicine fields. He's had a ringside seat as medical advancements have increased life-spans, technological developments have decreased physical activity, and learned why society has struggled to address the resulting problems. Zeman lays the groundwork to help the male baby boomer plan ahead for living longer than any generation in history.

Is your church viable in the changing marketplace of today--and tomorrow? Today's church market is comprised of four cultural paradigms--Youth, Baby Busters (Generation X), Baby Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Each has unique characteristics in terms of attitudes, spiritual orientation, values, emotional needs, moral perspective, and lifestyle. This implies significant changes for the church--new approaches to ministry and different methods of communication and interface. Church Wake-Up Call's unique “Ministries Matrix” approach provides effective management techniques to help you define and evaluate duties, priorities, and remedial actions for the future of your ministry in today's multigenerational context. Church Wake-Up Call will inform and enlighten you on these subjects: understanding and using the Ministries Matrix to define purposes and priorities for your church eirecting your ministry toward a particular age group without compromising the church's message increasing your church's visibility structuring your church's management organization creating an effective outreach program . . . and more! Although the book is oriented toward churches and their leadership and has been written largely from an evangelical Christian perspective, the descriptive information regarding each of the generational categories that comprise today's populace is applicable to all Christian organizations, whether they be evangelical or mainline Protestant, Catholic or parachurch. Similarly, the management system, which integrates defined purposes, priorities, and programming options into a well-coordinated plan of action, can be applied by all such organizations.

In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off. Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.