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  Get the Retirement You Deserve Courses
  (Our Pre-Retirement Course)

Why do I need a pre-retirement course?

Although we are gradually getting the message that, financially, we need to plan  
and make provision for the end of our working lives, most people don’t tend to give the emotional, spiritual, domestic, relationship and leisure implications of retirement a moment’s thought. 

In fact, most of us spend more time planning our annual holiday than we do planning the non-financial aspects of our retirement.  Consequently, many retired people report that they ‘wasted’ the first 18 months to 2 years of their retirement – ironically, the time when they were at their youngest.

What will I learn on my pre-retirement course?

On Contemporary Retirement courses you won't be subjected to a series of 'experts' who give talks on a range of retirement-related subjects that are just thinly-disguised attempts to sell you their own financial products and services. 

Instead, you'll have access to me, a Retirement Options-trained coach and 'Too Young To Retire' facilitator, for the whole of the 2-day course.  You'll learn all about retirement and, more importantly, you'll learn how to make retirement work for YOU from the inside out.

First of all you'll learn about the different stages of retirement that you'll progress through
(there are 6 of them).  You'll discover the potential pitfalls of each stage and make plans to help you avoid them - after all, forewarned is forearmed!

Then I'll take you through the Retirement Success Pyramid - my unique system for helping you get the retirement you deserve. The Retirement Success Pyramid will help you to:

• explore the opportunities and options that are available to you in this next stage of your life and choose the ones that are right for you
   

• determine the style of retirement that you're naturally drawn to by discovering your ‘retirement type’ and identifying some good role models for your particular type
   

• work out what a successful retirement would look and feel like for you
   

• examine strategies which will increase the probability of you getting the retirement you want and deserve to have
   

• work out what the component parts of your ideal retirement would be, and then compare your version of your ideal retirement with that of your partner to see how you can blend
  the two together
   

• identify goals that will help you attain your ideal retirement (or, if your chances of getting your ideal retirement seem constrained by your current reality, help you identify the elements of your ideal retirement that you CAN incorporate into your life.)
   

• consider the expectations that other people (such as your grown-up children and your elderly parents) hold about your retirement and make sure that there is no mismatch of expectations that could lead to conflict later
   

• make sure that you stay connected to other people and continue to make new friends
  once you're no longer working 
   

• look at ways to help you disengage from work and replace the 5 main benefits that we all
  receive from our work
   

• determine if you're the sort of person who should continue to work, in some capacity, after retirement and, if you are, work out what your perfect post-retirement work would be
   

• make a new commitment to your mental and physical health and wellbeing so that you're
  fit and healthy enough to be able to enjoy your retirement and, as you get older, to remain as independent as possible and living in your own home
   

• explore ways you can develop a satisfying portfolio of hobbies, interests and activities
  and increase the amount of time you spend on activities that bring you satisfaction and fulfilment (rather than just fill your time)
   

• investigate how you can plan to meet your future needs, conserve and protect your
  existing resources and build the support systems that will underpin your life as you get older
   

• examine how your home environment will need to support you as you get older,
   

• explore your potential for becoming a lifelong learner (and discover the advantages associated with continuing to learn)
   

• determine what you want your (non-financial) legacy to be
   

• prevent yourself becoming one of the 20% of people who get stuck in the 'disenchantment' stage of retirement (which can lead to depression and dissatisfaction if it's not managed correctly)
   

• learn how to balance your wants and needs with your partners wants and needs and discover how to avoid getting under each other's feet once you retire
   

• explore how you will use the extra time available to you once you retire
   

• figure out if you have enough hobbies, interests and activities to keep you interested and connected and discover if there's a balance in your range of leisure activities
   

• find at least one form of exercise that you enjoy and are able to sustain and find out what actions you can take to increase the chances of you taking daily exercise
   

• discover (or rediscover) your passions in life and how you can actively pursue those passions every day
   

• find out your aging style and learn how that can help or hinder you in this next phase of your life
   

• discover how your retirement doesn't have to be a gradual decline into old age, infirmity
  and dependency but how, instead, it can be a time of renewal, growth, exploration and purpose
   

• draw up your ‘bucket list’ of things you still want to be, do and have in life and learn how to break your bucket list goals down into baby steps you can take daily action on
   

• become aware of any limiting beliefs you hold about retirement and the aging process and learn how you can overcome them