Encore Careers: 4 Ways to Inject Fun into Your Next CareerAs you are considering retirement, you may be ready to explore some of the many options available to you in the wonderful world of encore careers, where you transition into a new career instead of retiring. Here are 4 ways to inject meaningful engagment and fun into your encore career:
Encore Careers: What's Your Expertise?After you have established your core values as a tool for discovering your encore career, the next step is to determine what skills or expertise you have that align with what you define as your personal values. Uncovering those things that you most enjoy that you're good at is a great next step on your internal journey of discovery for your ideal encore career. Take some quiet reflection time, and ask yourself these seven must-ask questions:
Encore Careers: 4 Steps to Determine What You ValueOne of the most powerful tools for determining what you really want in your encore career (and life) is clarifying your personal values. Values as those things that really matter to you and are unique to you. Here are 4 steps to determining what you value in your encore life:
Encore Careers: The Secret Opportunity That Begins with RetirementWhether you've chosen to retire - or been forced to - you still find yourself facing the great unknown about what's next in your life. Here's how to transform a once-scary situation into one with exciting opportunities:
Encore Career: 6 Truths About Choosing the Encore Career of Your DreamsAn encore career permits you to retire the part of your life - your work -- that no longer fits, and embark on a new career of your dreams. Here's how to make a great encore career choice:
Eight Key Sites to Inspire Your Encore CareerWhether you have to continue working, or if you're set financially and eager to donate your time to a cause that you find worthy, don't waste this opportunity to create your ideal encore career. Here are the top eight websites where you'll find information and inspiration to help you get your encore career on track:
Top Six Encore Career Resolutions for SpringHave your encore career plans been hibernating for too long? Are you ready for a new approach to moving your life forward? Consider these spring resolutions to jump start your encore career:
8 Steps to a Successful Do-It-Yourself Retirement Planning RetreatIn the same way that major businesses plan a corporate retreat each year to set their goals and create their plan for the upcoming year, baby boomers can create a retirement planning retreat to help them plan their encore lives. Here are 8 steps to help you successfully create the encore life you desire:
Your Encore Career: Three Steps to Take You from Now to Encore Career WOWMany women don't want to retire in the traditional sense but instead want to create an encore career that is more aligned with who they are at this stage in their life. There are many tools that help the 50+ find jobs, but they won't help unless you've done some foundation work first. Here are 3 steps you need to complete as you consider your encore career:
Positive Aging: Six Things to Start Doing When You Turn 60 (Besides Celebrate!)If you're one of the approximately 13,680 people who are turning sixty every day, you might find yourself panicking at that thought. Instead of falling into a deep funk related the the numerical value of your birthday, use the time instead to take stock of your life, redefine your priorities, and begin the following six practices:
Retired Before Your Time? Three Hot Job Search Tips in a Down EconomyYour employer may have 'retired' you out of your job, and the current recession dictates that you must work. However, you're at an age where conventional wisdom says you're unemployable. Here's how to get your creative juices going and have some fun with these recession-busting job hunting tips for the temporarily retired job-seeker:
Three Reasons Why Boomer Women Have to Work in Retirement (Hint: The Economy Isn't One of Them!)Despite the fact that many baby boomer women have a successful career or business, the majority of them are not adequately planning for their future. Why? Because many cling to outdated beliefs about women and money. Here are 3 outdated beliefs that boomer women need to discard to take control of their financial future.
Can't Afford to Retire? 5 Ways to Rethink Working So It Works For YouThe state of the economy may have you rethinking your retirement. If you feel stuck in your current job, have lost the joy in what you do, and are filled with doubts about making a job or career change, here are 5 ways to rethink the notion of working and retirement so that it works for you.
Five Ways to Avoid Having a Retirement Identity CrisisSo many people become completely lost without the identity provided by what they do for a living. As you head into retirement, clinging to the past is not the way to successfully make this transition. While it can be scary to walk away from the identity you carried for so many decades as defined by your career, here are 5 ways you can avoid a serious retirement identity crisis:
Retirement Transition: 4 Reasons to Get Unstuck NOWMany 50 to 60-something women are awakening to the reality that they're stuck in a life they no longer want to be living. They know it's time to move on, but don't know where or how to start planning the next thirty or more years of their lives. Here are 4 ways to acknowledge that you're stuck and need to break the log-jam:
Retirement Planning: 7 Secrets to Staying Calm While Your 401k is PlummetingThe Dow Jones is whipping up and down rapidly while your life savings dwindle, your plans for a cushy retirement are fade, and a restful night's sleep has become a thing of the past. Don't allow yourself to be swept along in the negativity and hysteria. Here's how you can stay calm when chaos and uncertainty is swirling around you:
Positive Aging: How Not to Be Just Another Old LadyDo you feel like you're not getting older but are getting better and excited about all the options and opportunities now available to you? Positive aging is not about tightening and smoothing the external package by erasing our history, but it is about deepening and enlivening the internal package by celebrating that history. Here's are 4 rules you can follow to avoid becoming just another old lad
Seven Reasons to Hire a Retirement CoachIf you've been researching retirement, you've probably been told you need a Retirement Coach. You do not need a Retirement Coach, but you may very well want one. The truth is there isn't anything a Retirement Coach can do for you that you can't do for yourself. The big question is - will you do what you need to do on your own and will you get the result you really want? A Retirement Coach to help
Retirement Transition Plan: Don't Leave Work (for Retirement) Without These 3 Plans in PlaceMuch of the US working population can't wait to retire. But before you leave your job for retirement, make sure you've created an infrastructure that will support you in thriving, not merely surviving, this next stage of life.
Retirement Transition Plan: Three Ways to Clear the Decks for RetirementThere is much to think about when planning for retirement, from what you want to do, where you want to live, how to stay healthy, and how to cope with the changes that are bound to come your way. It's easy to go into overwhelm. Before you begin to create your future, take some time to take stock of your life history in these 3 ways:
Retirement Transition Plan: Three Brilliant Ways to Segue Into RetirementA segue plan, or transition plan, will help you avoid post-career depression and other assorted woes that happen to those who fail to plan for their retirement. You may not know what's next for you, but you can make sure that you set yourself up for a painless transition. Here are three examples of how other boomers planned their transition from their career to retirement.
Don't Let Fear of Retirement Stop You from Taking the LeapYou believe you're ready to retire but you won't pull the plug on the status quo because of the fear about what life will be like for you upon retirement. Your rear is keeping you stuck right where you are. You can actually use fear to fuel you forward in your life. Here are the three most common types of fear that can keep you from taking the leap into retirement and how to move yourself beyond t
How To Know When It's Time To Retire From Your Current CareerMany people, when talking about retiring, say that they plan to retire in five years. For some reason, five years seems to be the magic years-from-retirement number. In many cases, baby boomers want to keep retirement a moving target because they don't know when it is the right time to say goodbye to their career. Here are 5 ways to know the time is right to retire from your current career:
Three Secrets to Positive Aging (No, Two of Them Are NOT Diet and Exercise!)The exciting field of brain science, and research reinforce that you no longer have to look forward to your mother's (or father's) old age. So much of the research is pointing toward the strength of your personal foundation and development of certain capabilities that keep you young and vital and determine your happiness as you age. The following are three factors that are crucial to positive agin
How to Create a Happy Retirement by Tuning Out Well-Meaning AdviceMany baby boomers have moved through life by making transition decisions all along based on external forces. If you're planning on following the same strategy as you create your retirement, you're headed in the wrong direction for this next transition. To truly revolutionize retirement, you'll have to tune out the advice that's screaming at you from these five sources:
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