Boomer Shift: Enoughness Ends the Self-Hate Comparison Game

 It's becoming an evening ritual for boomers to check Dow futures on CNBC. Last night they were rising and we slept soundly. Predictably, the Dow opened this morning up more than 200 points.

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For this we're grateful. Actually, we've settled into a mindset of "enoughness." As long as we seem to have enough for the next 10, 20 years or more we have found a new level of contentment. 

In my intuitive coaching I am hearing less about boomers feeling like failures because their college or graduate/professional school classmates have made the big time in wealth, influence and power. 

That comparison game has screeched to a halt. They just don't want to be homeless or forced into a kind of pathological frugality. There are already those who lament compulsively that tomatoes went from 82 cents a pound to 98 cents. They don't want to be like that.

About 20% of the homeless are in the aging category. 

UPDATE:

More good news as day goes on.

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