Purpose
PURPOSE : EVERY DAY MATTERS
Inspiration
Living Your Best Encore: Billy Mernit
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In his own words, writer, author and song lyrist, Billy Mernit shares his life lessons and why he appreciates the age he is right now.
Inspiration
Living Your Best Encore: Melissa Davey
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, documentary film maker Melissa Davey shares her fascinating story of how she embraced a totally different career and hasn't looked back since.
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Purpose
Living Your Best Encore: Stella Fosse
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, author Stella Fosse shares her story of transformation later in life moving from the biotech industry to romance novelist.
Purpose
Ask a Retirement Coach: Why do people keep saying I need to have purpose?
There is lots of discussion regarding the importance of having a purpose in retirement. But what if you're happy just doing what your doing?
Retirement Rebels
Living Your Best Encore: Adriane Berg
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. Meet Adriane Berg a true powerhouse and influential leader in aging. Adriane shares her life lessons and how she stays a lifelong adventurer.
Life
Ask a Retirement Coach: What Did You Learn in Your Own Retirement Transition?
This week in our Ask a Retirement Coach series, Retirement Coach Toni switched seats and shares insights of what she discovered was important in her own first year of retirement.
Purpose
Living Your Best Encore: Carl Landau
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In his own words, author and podcaster Carl Landau shares his experience in shifting to a new career later in life and how he hasn't looked back since.
Inspiration
Living Your Best Encore: Billy Mernit
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In his own words, writer, author and song lyrist, Billy Mernit shares his life lessons and why he appreciates the age he is right now.
Inspiration
Living Your Best Encore: Melissa Davey
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, documentary film maker Melissa Davey shares her fascinating story of how she embraced a totally different career and hasn't looked back since.
Opinion
Retirement Meets Maslow
Could Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs be applied to the concept of retirement? Mike Drak thinks it can.
Purpose
Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Create a Happy and Meaningful Retirement?
Everyone would like to make sure that they have a happy and meaningful retirement, but how do you actually do this? Retirement Coach Toni shares her advice.
Purpose
Ask a Retirement Coach: If I Don't Have My Career - Who Am I?
Leaving a successful career and entering retirement can be a difficult transition and potentially challenge your sense of identity. Retirement Coach Toni shares some advice on how to handle this.
Purpose
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.
Purpose
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?
Purpose
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.
Purpose
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.
Purpose
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?
