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Retirement is a time to integrate that which we love the most into our lives, actively choose how to engage our lives on a daily basis, share what is most meaningful to us in our activities and joyfully acknowledge our legacy. To many people retirement planning and management means financial planning and management. While this cornerstone is important, it does not address Life Planning for your retirement years. Coaching helps you to plan and live a fulfilling life in retirement.
The cycle of changes and transitions does not stop when we retire. When I coach individuals and couples planning for retirement transition, I require that they look not only at what they want to do upon retirement, but of multiple plans for the future.
Often, I work with people who are well into their retirement but have carried over old work habits, overextending commitments with too many volunteer organizations and boards. I help you to manage your commitments and align them with organizations most consistent with your values and passions, allowing time for the relaxation and adventure you looked forward to.
I work with you to answer the big questions:
- Where: What environment most suits you? Everything from location(s) to residence and physical surroundings.
- What: What are the activities you most want to be involved with daily and periodically? This includes alignment of retirement visions with the different physical stages during retirement (Go Fast; Go; Go Slow). What are the values that you hold most dear, and the things you love the most and want more of in your life?
- Who: What type of community do you want around you? Who are the people you want to be near, or in short distance from?
- When: When is it time to retire, to move, or move on to the next chapter in your life? Once retired, what is a realistic sequencing of the things you want to do in retirement?
- Support: Do you have all the support you will need? Financial, Community, Family, Friends, Spiritual...
Coaching provides the support and structure to help you plan and lead a fulfilling life in retirement, whether you are planning your transition or have been retired for years. When working with couples, I work with each partner individually first to anchor them in their own desires and preferences before bringing both people together to create a joint life plan. Years of experience have proven to me that otherwise individuals will limit their visions unnecessarily by taking for granted what they believe the other person wants. This is especially true for people who have spent decades together.
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