Attention: Newly-retired and soon-to-be-retired people

Retiring soon?  How will you make sure that you get
the retirement you deserve?

          Date: April, 2009

          From: Ann Harrison

How much time have you spent thinking about and
planning the non-financial side of your retirement?

       There's a saying in retirement coaching that 'most people spend longer planning
       their annual holiday or vacation than they spend planning the non-financial side
       of their retirement'.  Now I have no way of knowing how true that is, but one
       thing that I have observed as a retirement coach and trainer is that, generally
       speaking, the majority of people who are about to retire seem to get very little 
       support with planning for their retirement. 

       In fact, the more pre-retirement seminars and courses I taught, the more I
       realized that only the very enlightened HR departments were sending along
       delegates who were below middle-management level.  My constant thought was
       'What happens to the rest of the retirees?  The ones who don't work in
       management?  The ones who work on the shop floor, the factory floor, in the
       typing pool?  After all, they deserve to get the best retirement they could
       possibly have too!  They need to plan their retirement just as much as those at
       managerial level!'

        Let's face it - this is important stuff!  You could spend up to 30 years in this
       next phase of your life and, without a doubt, it'll be like no other period that
       you've experienced before...

       For example, for the first time in your life: 

• You'll have all that extra time on your hands (an average 2,000 to 3,000 hours
  per year)
   
• You'll potentially be living on a fixed income (and don’t even get me started on
  what's happened to the interest rates on savings over the last year!) 
   
• If you have a partner, you'll be learning how to be around each other on a full-time basis for, probably, the first time in your life
   
• If you're single, you'll need to make sure that you maintain existing social
  connections, forge new ones and put the systems in place that will support you
  as you get older
   
• You’ll have to get serious about your ‘bucket list’ of things that you still want to
  be, do and have
   
• You’ll have sole responsibility for providing yourself with a reason to get up in the morning and discovering a way to add structure and a sense of purpose to your days
   
• You may have to manage other people’s expectations about how you will use
  your new-found time.  (For example, someone may have their eye on you as their
  new babysitter, caregiver or dog-walker.)
   
• You’ll have the opportunity to examine some (or all) of the activities you engage
  in and decide whether they add to or detract from your enjoyment of life
   
• You’ll have the time to really begin to take care of yourself and address
  any niggling (or not so niggling) health issues
  
   

 AND, ALTHOUGH YOU’LL BE RETIRING, YOU HAVE SOME OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT WORK OF YOUR LIFE STILL TO DO –

MAKING SURE THAT YOU GET THE RETIREMENT YOU DESERVE!

 

      You see, I’m acutely aware of the fact that retirement will probably be your last
       chance to get the life that you’ve always wanted – a life that you really, truly
      love!  I have no wish to be rude, but none of us are getting any younger and we
      have no idea what lies in our future.  You’ve spent the biggest part of your life
      either at work, or travelling to and from work, or engaged in activities in
      preparation for the next day’s work!  And you didn’t have an awful lot of choice in
      the matter – you got up every morning and did what you had to do to keep body,
      soul and family together. 
 

But now, for the first time, it’s different… 
Now you have a choice. 
Now it’s up to you!
 

      So, this was my dilemma - as a retirement coach, I knew I wanted to do
      something for all the people who don't receive any support with their retirement
      planning…  but what would that be?  After all, there are plenty of perfectly good
      'how-to-do-retirement' books out there already and I didn't want to spend my
      time reinventing the wheel. 

     I wanted to give those people something that they could work through at home, in
     their own time, at their own pace.  Something that would really get them thinking
     about their retirement and how they wanted it to look and feel.  Something that
     partners could work through together.  Something that they could dip in and out of
     whenever they needed to.  Something that would stop them from being in the
     20% of people who are so disillusioned with retirement that they wish that they’d
     stayed at work. 

      So, here’s what I came up with - my solution:

 

Thought Provokers: Questions You Need to Ask
Yourself BEFORE You Retire

(and it’s definitely NOT your average 'how-to-do-retirement' book)

 

      Thought Provokers contains over 500 questions which are designed to help you
     get the happiest, healthiest, most vital, productive, energetic, prosperous and
     fulfilling retirement you could possibly have.

     Thought Provokers is filled with questions that will help you to:

• Envisage, design and plan how you want your ideal retirement to look and feel
• Balance having the kind of retirement that you want and need to have with
  planning to meet your future needs
• Think about the logistics of how you will live your life in this next phase
• Challenge some of the assumptions you may have already made about your
  retirement
• Discover what you still want to be, do and have in life
• Think about the choices you make – both now and in the future
• Reach a better understanding of yourself and how you want your life to be in
  retirement
• Get more of what you want in life and less of what you don't want
• Determine the steps you need to take NOW to make your life (and the aging
  process) smoother and easier in the future
• Sidestep the potential challenges and pitfalls that retirement can bring
• 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
• Ascertain whether your vision of your ideal retirement and your definition of
  happiness at this stage of your life match those of your partner
• 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)
• 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 

      and, most importantly, help you to

Get the retirement you deserve!
 

So, who is Ann Harrison?

    I'm the owner of the Contemporary Retirement Company, a Retirement Options
    coach, a pre-retirement trainer and (as far as I'm aware) the UK’s only
    2young2retire certified facilitator. I'm also a Barbara Sher Success Teams
    Leader and a certified confidence coach.
 
    I originally trained as a life coach with CoachU and the Graduate School of
     Coaching and before that, I spent many years in further education as a lecturer
    and manager.

    I'm also the author of The Retirement Detox Programme: 40 days to get your
     retirement back on track which I wrote after growing concerned about the number
    of people for whom retirement was just one big disappointment.  I’m passionate
    about helping people like you to get the happiest, healthiest, most vital,
    productive, energetic, prosperous and fulfilling retirement you could possibly have,
    whilst, at the same time, helping you to balance having the kind of retirement you
    want and deserve to have, with planning to meet your future needs.

 

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     you, many thanks for staying with me this far and I sincerely wish you a very, very
     happy retirement.

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       Wishing you the best of retirement success,

    Ann

     Ann Harrison

     Contemporary Retirement Coaching
     www.ContemporaryRetirementCoaching.com
 

P.S.  Bonus category now added to the Private Members Resources Blog - Latest Thought Provokers - containing all the new thought provoking questions that I've compiled since the publication of the Thought Provokers book.