Design Your Retirement Before It Designs You
We have been thinking about retirement wrong. For most of our working lives, retirement has existed in our minds as an endpoint. The finish line. The thing you get to after decades of commuting, meetings, deliverables, and performance reviews. You cross it, you stop, and then – the assumption goes – life gets good. Except the research does not support...
I want to tell you about a conversation I had with a woman I’ll call Claire. Claire was 54 and had been thinking about making changes to her life for a few years. She knew what she wanted – more space, more purpose, a health routine that didn’t rely entirely on good intentions and optimism, a clearer sense of what...
Click here to download your copy of the accompanying workbook! In Part 1, we explored what happens to men and women during midlife – how she becomes more assertive and adventurous while he becomes more emotionally available and connection-focused. It’s fascinating research, but it leaves one big question hanging: what do you actually do about it? Because understanding that you’re...
I need to tell you something personal. Something that drives everything I do. It’s about my parents. The Slow Decline My parents are in their late 70s. They spend their days in front of the TV – usually angry at the news. Their main social interactions are with the grocery delivery person and the caregiver who checks on them twice...
Itโs a good start for a joke, no? I have worked with many midlife clients from these three generations in the last few years. We are at a transient time where ๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ ๐. ๐ช ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ฌ are still there, but they are on their way to exit the stage and enter their next calling. ๐ค๐ผ ๐๐๐ง...
๐ What if I tell you that the gap in your rรฉsumรฉ may be a hidden gem? Many fear the gap and see it only as a BIG disadvantage. But is it really a disadvantage only? Did you lock yourself in a closet when you stopped working? Did you stop doing things and learning skills? While there are many reasons...
โI think what you do is absolutely amazing! Because, like you say, this stage in life (mid-life) is always looked at so negatively, so many people are scared of it and uncomfortable about it, but itโs literally the perfect time to reinvent yourself and go explore; you have money and no responsibilities ๐ I recently got my mum to do...
Don’t you sometimes wonder what it would be like to break free from the monotony of everyday life? To embark on new adventures and discover hidden passions? If you’re nodding your head in agreement, then you are not alone. There comes a time in our lives when we desire change, something different, something more fulfilling. And guess what?ย Midlife is...