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look longer than 30 years,” says
Christine Russell, senior manager
of retirement and annuities at
TD Ameritrade.
It’s not that far-fetched to think
you may be the next Rogers, and if
you’re not adjusting your mindset to
reflect that 40 is the new 30 when it
comes to retirement planning, now’s
a good time to start. Here’s how to
prepare for the long road ahead.

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N A RECENT Saturday
3 morning at the Rubin
Museum of Art in New
York City, Tao Porchon-
Lynch, a diminutive centenarian
dressed in fuchsia Lycra, with
fingernails and toenails painted to
match, stood at the center of about
60 students fanning out in a semi-
circle around her. She was the
highlight of a daylong slate of
activities for which yogis had shelled
out $175. Like a colorful humming-
bird, she bent her right leg and
rested her foot against her left inner
thigh. Arms extended, fingers flexed
skyward, the 100-year-old yoga
teacher executed a perfect tree pose.
“When we droop inward, we get
old,” Porchon-Lynch told her class.
Along with requisite sun
salutations and mindful breathing,
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she took with fans after the class. Her Westchester Institute of Yoga in 1982, in her
secret is simple: Like Rogers, she can mid-sixties. She hasn’t retired fully as we
because she does. In other words, you can think of it—in fact, her twilight years have
control how you age more than you might sparkled with activity as she has traveled the
think. “The breath of life is in all of us, world to teach. She thinks in the present,
but most of us don’t use it all the time,” which is great for a yoga teacher and anyone
Porchon-Lynch told me after the class. wanting to reach a good moment of zen.
Like Rogers, Porchon-Lynch embodies Retirement planners, however, can’t afford to
physical achievement at a certain age. She lose sight of the future.

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