The Life I'm Building After 50

Exploring what we can still build after 50: retirement income, healthy living & purpose | Author | Gardener | Trainer

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Starting Over Financially After 50: Building a Retirement Plan With What... https://t.co/Hmh8PzMrXe Follow along on my journey.

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I started my 8-hour eating window with Mama's chapati. No wheat, only a combination of healthy flours and legumes.

What did you eat today to stay healthy in your 50s?
#over50 #HealthyAging

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@CoachDanCole_ I am currently doing the 8:16 fasting, glad I got enough Kimchi to help with digestive enzymes.

My energy levels have doubled by day 10

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Breaking my 8:16 fasting, today

Are you still in the challenge

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What is the right time to start planning for your retirement?

A few months ago, I received an official notice with information about my retirement benefits so far.
Ever since, the word retirement has become real in my everyday life. Even though I have not reached the age of retirement, I realized I could be late in my planning.

Here are details of the wake-up call... https://t.co/3iiifIszPD come along to learn what I am doing about it.

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How did you break your intermittent fasting today?

Here's mine
Stay tuned for a video with details.

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It's good to know your farmer, but best if you're your farmer.

Ooh, I live in a city and no land to grow vegetables
Start with onions and Kale in containers.

Just harvested Kale and onions for an omelette which I'll eat without worries of how the vegetables were grown.
#KnowYourFarmer

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Eating your age and lifestyle.

How did you decide on foods for breakfast and dinner?
Many of us over 50 compete with our teenagers at the family table, yet your lifestyle and metabolism are worlds apart.

It's okay to serve food for the family, and food for oldies.

What food items did you harvest or buy today?
#informedfoodchoices

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I recently learned that my projected retirement benefit will be less than $200 a month.
That number changed the question I was asking about retirement.

Instead of: “Why didn't I prepare better twenty years ago?”
I'm asking: What can I still build from here?

I have published 15+ books. I have decades of experience in research, community capacity building, and gardening. I have skills, knowledge, ideas, and life experience.
What I don't have is the retirement income I wish I had built.

So I'm testing what happens when I put the two together.

• Can books generate meaningful later-in-life income?
• Can gardening reduce household expenses and lead to marketable products?
• Can decades of knowledge become useful services, courses, books, or resources?
• How do we protect our health and purpose while building financial security?
• How do family responsibilities, caregiving, and the realities of ageing affect all of this?

That's what I'll be documenting here. Not as a retirement expert, but as someone who is experiencing it firsthand.

What can I still build from here?

If you're over 50 and asking a similar question, follow along.
#personalfinance #frugalliving #Midlifereinvention #Elderrcare #BookIdeas

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X has changed so many things in 2026

How often have you changed with the changing times? Today I will merge my two X accounts into one account.

Stay tuned.

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The best news as a daily creative. I like recording videos and audio but posting videos on X is a challenge: it requires publishing via Studio then opening the post on X to add a thumbnail and a proper description. Please, improve on that and I'll be there to publish and engage with those interested in my niche.

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Is X going to update how we publish videos on the platform? I records lots of videos about my niche but publishing them via Studio is a pain. I publish there, click publish them return to the X timeline to add a thumbnail, script, etc. I can wait for an improved way to post videos.

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@LiveAncestral I eat two eggs a day.
I started a month ago and will return soon with results.

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@SmartScience Totally agree

In my community of origin, women always remind others that the clever child is like them. And whenever a child is not living to expected standards, fathers will be heard reminding the child that they're like their mother.

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Harvesting season.

Seasons gone with many lessons, a sign that I can grow lots of Manages on a 10 by 20-goot garden.

What's the smallest land you've ever grown good?

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@janetmachuka_ So true.
The ones I pity are our parents and grandparents who cannot read the labels. Whatever the seller gives or those in authority say is good, they swallow, whole.

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Next attraction, or, coming soon

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@zablonorina1 I saw one exercise for those who sit for long. Recommended by @dr_sumit_sharma I have a reminder to lift my heels often.