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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.
The best time to attend a
pre-retirement course is 2 to 3
years before your actual
retirement
date. In this way, you can
give yourself plenty of time to
prepare properly and ensure that you
have the best possible chance of
making the most of your retirement.
However, if your retirement date
is much closer
than that, don’t
panic – there’s
plenty that we can
still do to get you ready and the
majority of people who attend
my
courses are only a month or two
away
from their expected retirement date.
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What will I learn on my pre-retirement
course?
Subjects covered include:
Adjusting to a new lifestyle:
Work reorientation, making the most of your time, replacement of
work functions, establishing new goals
and routines, dealing with change and
uncertainty.
Health issues:
Improving your health, exercise and
nutrition, discovering your ‘ageing
style’.
Home and environment:
Stay put or shake things up - what are
your options? How your home environment
will need to serve you as you get
older. Discover the assets/liabilities
of your current living situation.
Leisure interests:
Hobbies and activities, education,
travel, sports, learning, TV and other
entertainment, balancing solitude and
shared activity.
Retirement career options:
Do you want to carry on working in some
capacity? Are you considering a
second or third career? Is
voluntary work appealing to you?
Have you always wanted to start a
business? What are your
opportunities and constraints?
Family and relationship issues:
Developing a clear understanding of your
own retirement expectations, the
expectations of significant others and
how to blend the two together.
Dependents and care-giving
responsibilities - balancing your
personal dreams and goals with family
and societal responsibilities.
Issues affecting couples in retirement.
Making new friends.
And don’t worry – you won’t be just
sitting and listening all the time.
Our courses are very interactive,
with lots of discussion, activities,
quizzes and opportunities to ask
questions. However, nobody will be
embarrassed or asked to do
anything that they feel
uncomfortable with.
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Couples Talking Retirement
Courses
It's official... Couples just aren't
talking to each other about their wants,
needs, fears, hopes and dreams for the
second half of their lives.
A recent survey of 502 married couples
approaching retirement uncovered the
fact that wives and husbands often had
different understandings of their plans
and preparations for life after the
office (or shop, or factory, or... you
fill in the blank):
• 61% disagreed on which income
source (workplace savings, pensions,
Social Security, etc.) would be their
primary source of funds in retirement.
• 58% disagreed about whom their
spouse would turn to for financial
guidance in the event of the other
spouse's death.
• 41% disagreed about whether at
least one partner would work in
retirement.
• 39% differed on the amount of
their life-insurance coverage.
Note: Spouses were questioned
individually. On average, surveyed
couples had been married 24 years and
were nine years away from their expected
retirement. Husbands were 54 years old,
on average; wives were 53.
(Source: Fidelity Investments)
The failure to develop a clear
understanding of your own retirement
expectations, the expectations of your
spouse or partner and how to blend the
two together can be a recipe for
retirement disaster...
For example, what would your ideal
retirement look and feel like? Does your
vision of your ideal retirement match
that of your partner?
What is your definition of 'healthy
togetherness' with your partner? And
does your partner share that definition?
Do you suspect that you may want to
spend more time with your loved one than
they are prepared to give? In other
words, do they have other plans for how
they will spend their time and who they
spend it with? Or vice versa?
Where do you want to spend your
retirement and what factors are
important when choosing a place to live
at this stage in your life? Does your
partner agree?
As a couple, have you been too cautious
in your life thus far, or not cautious
enough? What needs to change?
If you and your partner both retired at
the same time, would you be able to cope
with suddenly spending large amounts of
time together or would you be sick of
the sight of each other within a
fortnight?
Even couples who have happily rubbed
along together for many years can by
surprised by the effects that retirement
can have upon their relationship.
And the best way to avoid any issues in
the first place (or resolve them
satisfactorily when they do arise) is to
talk to each other. To speak honestly
and openly about your wants, needs,
hopes, fears and dreams for your future,
and to listen with understanding and
compassion when your partner does the
same thing.
The new Couples Talking Retirement
course can help you with that. By
helping you ask the right questions
in order to:
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uncover the differences between your
perceptions and understanding of
what your life in retirement will be
like and those of your partner
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highlight potential challenges
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enable you to work together to
minimise the likelihood of future
problems arising and ensure that you
both get the retirement you
deserve..
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The Retirement Detox Course
The course that's designed to help
disillusioned retirees
to get their retirement
back on track…
Do any of these sound like you?
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You retired recently
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You took some much-needed time off
to relax but find that you're
getting bored now
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You had ambitious plans for your
retirement that haven't come to
fruition and your lack of progress
is getting you down
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You've already achieved all the
goals you set for your retirement
and are left feeling 'what next?'
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You've been over-run by everyday,
mundane activities that leave
precious little time for what you
really want to do
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Something came along that just blew
your retirement plans right out of
the water - a divorce or serious
health problem, for example
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It’s starting to feel like your
purpose in life retired when you did
and that you're floundering around
in your retirement
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Golf (or gardening, or bridge...) and time spent with the family
isn't enough for you and you want
and need to do more
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When you envisage the remainder of
your retirement years, you see only
more of the same... and you want
something different. Something
better.
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You still have things that you'd
like to accomplish. You still want
to travel. Explore. Experience.
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Your relationship has suffered since
you retired and you’re not sure how
to get it back on track
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Your partner’s idea of their ideal
retirement and your own idea of your
ideal retirement differ and you
can’t seem to find a compromise
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You’d love to be able to start your
retirement over again
More and more people are hiring a
retirement coach or booking onto a
pre-retirement course to help them plan
the non-financial side of their
retirement BEFORE they retire…
But what happens when you’re already
retired and things haven’t turned out in
the way that you hoped they would?
After all, a pre-retirement planning
course is hardly appropriate now because
you’re already retired, and anyway, you
wouldn’t want to sit alongside all those
bright, shiny, new pre-retirees who
haven’t had time yet to experience the
potential challenges and pitfalls that
retirement can bring…
Which
is exactly why I designed the
Retirement Detox Course
for all
those people who are maybe feeling a
little disillusioned with retirement and
are wondering ‘Is this all there is,
then?’.
If you're feeling disappointed or
disillusioned by your retirement, don't
simply accept that this is the way
things have to be – instead, take
control and make positive steps and
progress NOW towards having the
retirement you always wanted to have
by joining us on this one-day course in
central Manchester.
The
Retirement Detox Course, will show you to how to take
life-changing, good-habit-forming
actions that will help you to:
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take stock of
your current situation by
determining which areas of your life
are working well for you and which
aren’t
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determine what
your definition of happiness is at
this stage of your life and show you
how to build more opportunities for
happiness into your everyday life
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envisage,
design and plan how you want your
ideal retirement to look and feel
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determine
whether your vision of your ideal
retirement and your definition of
happiness at this stage of your life
match those of your partner
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develop a
shared vision of retirement with
your spouse or partner (or, if you
don’t have a spouse or partner, take
the steps that will alleviate your
worries about feeling lonely and
isolated in retirement)
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explore how
you feel about your other
relationships (for example, those
with your friends, children,
grandchildren and elderly parents)
and the expectations those people
hold about your retirement
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replace the
feelings of satisfaction,
importance, usefulness,
companionship and productivity that
you obtained from your work
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gain a sense of perspective about
your retirement
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take back control of your retirement
and
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go on to have a retirement life that
you really, truly love
No matter how dissatisfied or
disillusioned with retirement you
currently are, this unique course will
give you the resources to be able to get
your retirement back on track.
Course fees are £197 per individual and
£347 per couple.
All
Courses Now Include
Free Ongoing Support
Attend a Contemporary Retirement
pre-retirement course or book any of the
retirement coaching packages and receive
ongoing support via our monthly
Retirement Success group free
of charge for as long as you need it.
See below for details
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