Design Your Retirement Before It Designs You
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...
They say you canโt teach an old dog new tricks. Wellโฆ Iโm here to tell you โ you absolutely can. A Change of Scenery Recently, we decided to shake things up. A new place. A fresh start. It was our choice โ intentional, thought through, and exciting for us. But not everyone in our little family shared the enthusiasm. We...
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...
In my line of work, where I encounter new faces and engage in fresh conversations every day, I’ve noticed a recurring theme. It seems that regardless of their backgrounds or circumstances, everyone I meet shares a common desire for a better life. They possess dreams and aspirations, and deep down, they know that achieving these dreams is within their reach...
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...
If you are like me, you want to change some parts of your life. You know what you want. You know what you have to change. You may even know how to achieve it. What you donโt know is how to get over the big mountain between you and where you want to be. If you feel this way, you...
How often do we stop ourselves from trying something new or going on a less traveled road because we already decided that we weren’t good at it, would fail, or didn’t have the time? How often do we stay feeling dissatisfied with what we do but don’t want to change anything because we tell ourselves that the known devil is...
Before the communists came to power in 1946, my great-grandmother owned a fashion house. If there was one person who knew exactly how to fix any garment, it was her. My grandma could create a beautiful piece of clothing out of an old piece of fabric, no matter the shape or design. As a teenager, it was my great-grandmother that...
A career change later in life is no longer the unconventional, taboo concept it once was. We hear about such shifts daily, be it listening to a podcast from a sales trainer turned entrepreneur billionaire, reading about how a mother went from changing diapers to starting a multi-million business, or our parents telling us they’ve decided to take their newfound...
I want a career change! How did I end up here? This is not how I wanted to spend my life! What can I do about this? I feel stuck! Who can help me find what I was meant to do? Have you ever felt like part of life to which you no longer belong? It might have once been...