Purpose
PURPOSE : EVERY DAY MATTERS
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Ask a Retirement Coach: My Husband Treats Everyday Like the Weekend
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Living Your Best Encore: Wendy Green
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Living Your Best Encore: Maria Coffey
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Ask a Retirement Coach: Looking For Work in Retirement
Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Know if I am Emotionally Ready to Retire?
Often people have spent a great deal of time preparing for the financial aspects of retirement and have a pretty good idea of when they are financially able to retire. But what about the emotional aspects of retirement?
Purpose
Stop Thinking About What You Are Retiring From - Start Thinking About What You Are Retiring To
Rather than thinking about what you are retiring from there are some compelling reasons to think more about what you are retiring to.
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Living Your Best Encore: Brian Prousky
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In his own words, author and poet, Brian Prousky shares his journey to becoming a writer and the life lessons he gathered along the way.
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Ask a Retirement Coach: My Husband Treats Everyday Like the Weekend
After years of working, it not uncommon to want to unwind and relax. But when does too much relaxation become a concern?
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Living Your Best Encore: Wendy Green
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, podcaster Wendy Green shares her life's journey and how she now finds fulfillment everyday.
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Living Your Best Encore: Maria Coffey
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, author, traveler and adventurer Maria Coffey shares her life lessons and why she appreciates everyday as she lives her best encore.
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Ask a Retirement Coach: Looking For Work in Retirement
Retirement can be a wonderful time of life. But sometimes people find themselves wanting to return to work.
Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Know if I am Emotionally Ready to Retire?
Often people have spent a great deal of time preparing for the financial aspects of retirement and have a pretty good idea of when they are financially able to retire. But what about the emotional aspects of retirement?
Purpose
Stop Thinking About What You Are Retiring From - Start Thinking About What You Are Retiring To
Rather than thinking about what you are retiring from there are some compelling reasons to think more about what you are retiring to.
Finding Your Flow In Retirement
Have you ever experienced "flow state" in your life? It's a powerful state of mind and something that you may want to consider on how you could achieve this into your retirement life.
Life
Something to Ask Yourself: Are You Living A Regret Free Life?
There are many people who are not really living the life that they either wanted or envisioned. But the bigger question is at the end of our lives will we then have any regrets?
Building A Generative Retirement
So often we view our life after work as being an ending stage. But here’s another perspective.
Retirement Rebels
Reasons to Become A Retirement Rebel
Retirement Rebels refuse to follow the old fashion beliefs about “old-people,” and being retired. In fact they are anything but retired.
Finance
Is It Time to Rename FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early)?
So many people are aspiring to achieve FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early). But should we possibly call it something different? Possibly a similar objective but with a more purposeful result.
Purpose
Keith Richards: A Great Example of the Work and Longevity Connection
How does someone like Keith Richards survive decades of hard drug use, drink and smoke heavily, not exercise, eat the wrong foods and still be alive and thriving? Maybe that's where work and purpose come in.
Discovering My Passion and Exercise Groove with Essentrics®
Little did Lindsay Anderson realize that stopping into a random session at a Women's Fitness Event would lead her discover her new passion later in life.
Life
A Life, Work, Retirement Rethink
We are experiencing not only increased stress levels but a drop in our longevity. Is it time to rethink our life, work and retirement models?
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If Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes Will It Be Something You Want to Watch?
For a long time there has been a theory that when we die our life will flash before our eyes. What if this was true? Would you be something you would want to watch?
My (Un)Retirement Lessons Learned
Carl Landau has now been retired for four years and has learned a few things in the process.
Is Your Age a Jail Sentence or a Gateway?
Our 50s and 60s can surface some of the biggest decisions one can make. It can represent a turning point with “go to jail, do not pass Go” implications. Or offer a gateway to the most productive, meaningful, purposeful time of life.
Navigating the Transition: From Finance Executive to Retiree
Toni believed that the transition to retirement was going to be easy. But as she embarked on this new chapter she soon realized that building a happy and thriving retirement goes beyond financial planning.
Older Workers And The Gig Economy – Why It Works
The gig economy is big and growing. It’s projected to have double digit growth over the next five years. It also presents a great opportunity for older workers.
The Need For A New Type Of Job Security
The University of Oxford published a research article that shared 24% of people between the ages of 45 and 74 are fearful of losing their jobs in the next twelve months. Having people feel insecure at any time is not a good thing. But rather then expecting companies to take care of us, maybe we need to embrace a new (and yet also old) type of job security.
If You Can't Find It - Then Create It
Does the idea of coding frighten you? Well here is an amazing story of how one retirement rebel faced and conquered this challenge head on.
5 Key Tactics The Pros Use For Starting A Business At 50
The truth is mature individuals often make the best business owners. All they need is to know the secrets to success.
Follow Your Bliss? No! Follow Your Usefulness
Many of us came of age inspired by “Follow your bliss and the money will follow.” But is this really accurate and good advice?
How Not To Waste A Retirement
Our pre-occupation with retirement has turned “work” into another unattractive four-letter word for many. But research is now showing us that if we abandon work we do it at our own peril.