Thursday, March 19, 2009

Be Creative During a Recession


This is the dedication by author Ernie Zelinski in his first book The Art of Seeing Double or Better in Business, which he wrote during a recession.

    To all the creative people throughout the ages who have been willing to risk, be different, challenge the status quo, ruffle a few feathers — and in the process — truly make a big difference in this world.
And here are some latest headlines relating to retirement:

    Recession hits retirees living abroad
    Easier (press release) - Chester,UK
    Britons looking to retire abroad to traditional European destinations
    such as Spain and Portugal have been warned to think twice about their
    decision by the ...

    Florida retirees see American dream shattered
    Taipei Times - Taiwan
    The Florida panhandle, home to the US’ largest population of retirees,
    has become a center of financial panic. “The banks and the mortgage
    companies just ...
What do these two seemingly unrelated topics have to do with each other?

If you are retired or soon-to-be retired and want to survive the recession in style, no doubt you have to be creative. Early retirement can still be achieved in this day and age by the creative individuals of this world.

More on this later.