Positive aging is not an oxymoron. 

While our carbon-based container begins to detoeiorate the moment we are born, our mind and our creative forces grow and expand to the end of our days.  We need to be mindful of this fact and, more importanlty, live our lives accordingly.  We should frame ”senior moments” as expressions of knowledge and insight and wisdom and wisdom and a very, very good thing.  We should view “growing old” as a gift, not a burden.   

We are humans becomming—not simply humans being.  Preserve your body.  Expand your mind.  Let your inner light shine.  Be thankful for your many days on this earth. 

One of the prevailing myths in retirement planning circles and in many human resource departments is that retirement planning undermines employee morale and productivity. 

The thinking goes something like this:  If employees are focusing their energies on what to do after they leave my employment, then what energies are they currently focusing on the work I am paying them to accomplish?  OR, Why remind my employees that the end of their working lives is near?  Reality will hit them soon enough.

Actually, research demonstrates that the exact opposit is true–employee morale and productivity may increase as a result of quality retirement planning.  One of the premier development tasks of any life stage is the preparation for the next life stage.  When we invest energies and resouces in the preparation for what’s next, we feel better, we are more productive, we are more at ease, we are more emotionally engaged in the “here and now”, and we are more our authentic selves. 

Retirement planning, when conceived and implemented in a comprehensive manner, creates bottom-line results and impacts the profitability picture as much as it does interpersonal relations.