Don’t stop creating choices for yourself Leaving work can often be a difficult decision to make. This is especially true when you have been within a certain sector for a number of years and retirement is just around the corner. For many public sector workers who are stressed and unhappy in their current role, the thought that they cannot leave because of how this will affect their retirement compounds these feelings even further. There are also those people, predominantly women, who...
Increasing life expectancy and rising retirement ages have serious implications.If you’re reading this, maybe you’re in your forties or fifties, wondering how come the career that you longed for and worked so hard for, just doesn’t light you up each morning when you think about what the day holds. Something’s holding you back. You know it’s not a lack of skills and you’ve got experience. But there’s a feeling in the pit of your stomach and it’s...
Retirement, like any other transition, has unexpected issues that coaching helps you to get through. It is a new one for many career focused people - executives, business people, middle management, professions such as police, fire, health roles where they are 'full on', pressured and demanding of time, energy and a focussed mind. How different will it be to have: (a) No pressures from outside of yourself?(b) Less demands and structure to your days and evenings?(c) Three meals a day instead of...
"May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. And may you stay forever young." - Bob DylanNo matter our age in years, we can still remain young at heart. Equally, unless we are careful we can easily become old before our time. Whether or not we continue to have a youthful, enthusiastic attitude, doesn't really have much to do with the number of years we have lived. If you'd like to remain young at heart for as long as possible here are three important things to...
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