Retire to the Life You Love

I believe life is a journey of exploration and discovery, not a destination. The challenge is what direction to take on your personal journey. There are so many options, so much potential, and so many opportunities. It’s exhilarating stuff! How exactly do you choose what could be a good fit for you?

For more than 25 years, I’ve been helping facilitate the career and life choices of thousands of men and women in career planning and retirement preparation workshops. Participants came to explore new ideas, new options, or confirm a tentative choice. Some came tired, depressed or fearful. All left with renewed hope and energy to explore and take action on the options they discovered.

When my husband was offered an exit package by his employer and wasn’t sure what he would do if he accepted, I created the first Retire to the Life You Design© workshop for him and others like him, the start of a wave of pre boomers and boomers that followed. That was close to 20 years ago. He is continuing to work part time in the choice he made in that workshop. And I continue to help those who are looking for guidance in discovering their own direction.

Now into my seventies, I have created a life balance that works for my energy level, interests, and the values that are important to me. The contract I manage facilitating retirement planning workshops for employees of a large organization now includes associates who facilitate the workshops while I focus on writing the book that has the potential to reach more people with its hopeful message that it’s not too late to live the life you desire. Plus provides the tools to make it happen for yourself, already proved to have helped others just like you.

The balance I created for my own life embodies the six ways to love your life: to be true to who you are; to be physically, mentally and spiritually well; to be compassionate with yourself, family, friends, and society as a whole; to be a contributor to the greater good through meaningful work or volunteer options; to be curious and keep learning; and to just be through restorative and joyful leisure activities. In short, to express who you are on the inside through intentional choices in the outer world for a personally meaningful present and future.