5 ways to increase happiness and not break the bank

Some financial concessions can be made to find happiness while aging. Here are 5 tips to save money.

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I openly embrace this stage of life. And you have to do it. You have to fight a little bit to do it,

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because there's so much coming at us that says we should be invisible now.

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We should get off the stage now. We should sit down now. And so I want to be one of those voices that

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shows that you can actually be doing something else.

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I graduated from Harvard Business School. I've worked at the World Bank. I've had my own business.

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So it's been quite a journey. Half, easily close to half of the people have not set aside enough to retire.

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So my advice and what I'm learning is I have the expression I say sometimes. I have to get off my throne.

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I try to pull together what I call a casserole of interesting work.

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And some of it, I don't like, but some of it, where I can, that's the focus, because I know that at my age--

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I'm 68 now-- that the likelihood of me getting a 9:00 to 5:00

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sort of traditional job is unlikely. How do I, what I call small ops?

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So downsizing in a way where I am clear about what I need to feel grounded and supported.

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How do I think in terms of living? Maybe there are a group of women living "Golden Girls" style.

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If we don't start kind of making that more normal, then your money is not going to go very far at all.

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Different people are going to have different things that make us feel like, OK, this

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is my happiness. I'm a big flower person. That's my happiness. So why would you buy flowers?

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Because that, for me, is something-- that beauty, I feel supported by that.