life lessons

Random thoughts on life lessons of a 50 year old Gen X guy.

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Aug 24, 2025

The Five Pillars of Redefining Retirement: 2025 Gen X Retirement Planning

This week’s mixtape: staying relevant, playing offense, a little luck and an 80s music comeback?

Corey Koehler

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Aug 17, 2025

How I Broke Out Of The Wage Mindset (To Think Like An Entrepreneur)

This week’s mixtape: the mindset shift from hourly worker to entrepreneur, building assets, showing up daily, and some Pat Benatar to get you fired up.

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Jun 08, 2025

Future of Work for Gen X, Entrepreneurial Survival and AI Prompting Techniques

This week’s mixtape: Gen X job security, Pickaxe.ai experiments, Alice in Chains and the art of better prompting.

Corey Koehler

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Mar 30, 2025

AI and Gen X: How to Combine Your Current Skills with Artificial Intelligence

Use your existing skills, stay relevant after 50, and build a new path with AI (and some Bon Jovi)

Corey Koehler

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Mar 23, 2025

Gen X Retirement Crisis? How AI Partnership Changes Everything

We're Using AI All Wrong: Turn AI from Threat to Ally with This Simple Mindset Shift

Corey Koehler

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Mar 16, 2025

Mindset Matters: How One Simple Shift Changed My Career Forever

Harness the Power of a Growth Mindset to Escape the 9-to-5, Find Fulfillment, and Build Lasting Success

Corey Koehler

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Dec 03, 2023

Why Didn’t We Do This Earlier?

Eggs, Elders, and Enlightenment: Tales from a Grocery Store Eatery

Corey Koehler