It is highly likely that the sale of your business is not going to provide for 100 percent of the earning power that you have received from your business. It's also true that most business owners have unrealistically optimistic ideas concerning the sale value of their business. So how do you, a business owner, prepare for financial independence and a secure retirement? How do you make your business worth more to others so that it's worth more to you? One way is through the Podolny Method, a logical, step-by-step program for initiating real change in your business. First, it helps you determine what you really want. It answers the questions: Why are you in business? What do you expect personally from your business, both now and when your ownership ends and you move on to the next phase of your life? Michael Podolny's eight-step method will help you establish where your business is and how your business works for or against your personal requirements. Most importantly, The Podolny Method provides you with the tools to initiate and sustain the changes that need to take place if you are to make your business to serve you.

After his wife of 44 years died, a retired gentleman living in a Retirement Village started dating another woman. When their courtship progressed to the level where he wished his lady to stay overnight he learned that they would have to report to "mother" the General Manager of the retirement village. How embarrassing for this senior couple to have to report in this manner to a woman in her early thirties. Later, when they decided to live together, they ran into strong resistance from the General Manager who offered three choices for them to choose from that would allow the woman to live with him. All three choices were short of being ridiculous. The woman violently opposed the arbitrary and derogatory way she was treated at the meeting and stated she felt that the Operators were taking advantage of elderly persons who were captive to the terms they set for them to live in their own homes. The General Manager then banned his partner from living in the village, one week before she was to move in with him. This book relates to the day-to-day events that took place before and after the Operators banned the woman from the retirement village. It identifies the extreme powers and favouritism given by the Queensland Retirement Village Act 1999 towards the village land owners instead of to the people who buy the actual homes.

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIVING IN MERIDA 2014: TONS OF USEFUL INFORMATION. This guide remains indispensable for anyone thinking of moving to or visiting Merida, the marvelous capital city of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, often profiled as a "tropical paradise" by the House Hunters International cable television show. The most comprehensive book ever compiled about Merida, this well-organized guide will help answer most any question - from how to buy or rent a house to where you can find a good Italian restaurant. The 2014 edition has been updated and expanded to include the up-to-the-minute information on the NEW IMMIGRATION laws, NEW RULES on importing automobiles, and NEW SHOPPING VENUES in the Historic Center While helping the reader decide how best to go about making the move to the city rated by International Living Magazine as the best area to retire to in the whole of North America, this trove of information and advice will also assist the newly-relocated as well as those with established residence. Topics include information about Merida's neighborhoods; amenities (churches, schools, expat communities, helpful websites, etc.); Medical Tourism; a perfect week as a visitor; Spanish language classes; museums and galleries; making the move to Merida; driving in Mexico; cost of living; hiring household help; banking; an assessment of the real estate market; architects and designers; furnishings; the local artistic community; social customs and holidays; finding a lawyer, hospital or doctor; insurance matters; gay and lesbian communities; taxes; voting; embassies and consulates; as well as consumer advice and warnings. With more than one million Americans and Canadians now living in Mexico, Merida is the center of increasing attention. Often described as a "tropical paradise," a "colonial gem," and a "bastion of tranquility," Merida is undoubtedly Mexico's best kept secret. But is Merida a match for you? Are you ready to become an expatriate? Are you prepared to be a "minority" - a native English speaker in a Spanish speaking country? Are you ready to make a second or retirement home in an exotic and exciting foreign city for that is a ninety-minute flight from the U.S.? Are you thinking about embarking on an adventure of a lifetime? This book will help answer these questions

Marriage has historically helped protect the financial health of couples and surviving spouses in old age. Based on their marriage, and independent of their own work history, spouses may receive retirement and survivor income through Social Security and some employer-sponsored pension plans. Many of the federal requirements governing these benefits were developed at a time when family structures, work patterns, and pensions were very different from what they are today. In recent decades, marriage has become less common, more households have two earners rather than one, and many employers have shifted from DB plans to DC plans. This book examines the trends in and status of marriage and labour force participation in American households; how those trends have affected spousal benefits and retirement savings behaviour within households today; and the implications of these trends for future retirement security.

Why this book? Most books on Retirement are really about Financial Planning or Estate Planning. Not this book This book is about creating a fulfilling life in retirement; it is a crossover book between self-help and retirement. Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life entices people to set out their hidden dreams, to reveal their lost hopes and to admit their secret desires, and then to plan a life to include them This book encourages risk taking, honesty, and trusting yourself and others to make a fulfilling life in retirement. This book is aimed at those already retired, and it entices the Baby Boomers who are now retiring in ever increasing numbers. These Baby Boomers have had everything, done everything and will continue to be a driving force in their retirement. They also have a deep hunger to be fulfilled. Many of them have led fast, hectic, shallow lives and they have never explored their souls or their dreams. This book invites them to do both Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life encompasses my own experience. I have retired twice AND I am having the time of my life doing the things I've always wanted to do - following my dreams I know that retirement can be the most fulfilling time of life. My coaching clients have left their stereotypical thinking behind, thrown off their insecurities and fears to do great things They have become computer literate, published authors, public speakers and lay preachers. Some have traveled to places they had always dreamed about, others have stepped into roles with family and friends in important new ways that have given them a sense of self-worth and deep feelings of fulfillment. Retirement is a time of living and doing exciting things; it is a time of loving and helping others, and it is about finding the 'real you' within and manifesting that in all its glory For more information about the book please visit www.bmwalker.com

5 Steps to Get Your Business fit is a quick-to-read guide packed with clear-cut advice addressing: Increasing value and decreasing risk Identifying and defining your goals and objectives Planning to be successful The most important value drivers Differences between growing a healthy vs. an unhealthy business