Contemporary Retirement Coaching Blog

Hello and welcome

Hello, my name is Ann Harrison.  I’m passionate about helping people like you to get the happiest, healthiest, most vital, productive, energetic, prosperous and fulfilling retirement you could possibly have, whilst, at the same time, helping you to balance having the kind of retirement you want and deserve to have, with planning to meet your future needs.

I'm a Retirement Options™ trained retirement coach and trainer and a Too Young To Retire™ facilitator.   I'm also the author of Thought Provokers: Questions You Need to Ask Yourself BEFORE You Retire and The Retirement Detox Programme: 40 days to get your retirement back on track.  You can find out more about me here.  But enough about me.  What about you?

If you're due to retire in the near future, how will you make the most of the freedom, choice and opportunities available to you? How much thought have you given to the life and lifestyle transitions that retirement will bring?  Are you aware of the potential pitfalls associated with retirement and do you have strategies to overcome them?  How will you get the retirement you deserve?

And if you're already retired, is your retirement everything you hoped it would be?  Do you have the retirement you deserve?

Here are some of the ways that I can help you:

Free Resources 
Retirement Courses (UK)
Too Young To Retire Telecourses (Worldwide)
The Retirement Success Profile (Worldwide)
Retirement Coaching (Worldwide) 
The Retirement Detox Programme Ebook

Great Quotes - On living your dream

Too often we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that whichever way we go, the price is the same: in both cases, we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

Paulo Coelho

Happy 4th of July

Happy Independence Day to all our readers from the U.S.!  Enjoy the fireworks!

Did you know?

Fascinating 'food for thought' video on the progression of information technology:

Thought Provokers

Do you live to work or work to live?

Do you have life goals that are not work-related?

Could you be described as a workaholic?

How do you see that working for you in retirement?

What could you do TODAY to start to turn things around?

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For over 500 questions designed to help you get the happy, healthy, vital, productive, energetic, prosperous and fulfilling retirement you deserve, buy my new, immediately downloadable book: Thought Provokers: Questions You Need To Ask Yourself BEFORE You Retire.

Blogging Boomers Carnival #121

We're in the middle of a heatwave here in the UK, so I'm going to sit down and chill out with Dina Lynch Eisenberg of This Marriage Thing who's hosting the Blogging Boomers this week.  Why don't you join us?

Understanding your interests and passions

Here are some powerful questions from Dr Richard Johnson that you can use to help you better understand your interests and passions:

1. Do you enjoy working with people, data, or things?
2. Are you more of a thinker or a doer?
3. How do you express your creativity?
4. How would you describe your "entrepreneurial" spirit?
5. Do you like to organize things?
6. Are you drawn to helping others?
7. Are there any retirement models, or actual persons already in retirement that are attractive to you? Why? How?
8. Are there any particular leisure activities that attract you?

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Dr Richard Johnson is the founder of Retirement Options, an organisation dedicated to helping people lead enriched lives in their retirement years through pre-retirement assessment and planning. Over 30,000 individuals have taken the Retirement Success Profile(RSP)© and LifeOptions Profile© as well as experienced the Retirement Options© program over the past 18 years. You can find out more about the product and program online at Retirement Options and you can take the Retirement Success Profile by clicking here.

Great Quotes

The song that I came to sing remains unsung.  Alas, I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instruments.

Rabindranath Tagore

Dem bones, dem bones...

We all know how important Calcium is in the prevention of Osteoporosis, but what do you do if you're not particularly keen on dairy products?  Here are some sneaky tricks for working calcium into your diet and routine from msn.com in conjunction with Caring.com.

10 Rules to help you survive widowhood

Adrienne Furness, owner and author of the 'What Adrienne Thinks About That' blog, wrote 10 Rules to help you survive widowhood following the death of her husband and says that, four years later, it remains one of the most-viewed blog postings.

A new tax to pay for care? By Informed Choice (UK Financial Planners)

Note: The following is probably only of interest to UK-based readers.

It was reported last week that a new tax will be introduced to cover the cost of care in old age.

The 'inheritance levy' is expected to be proposed within the next couple of weeks as the Government tries to bring an end to the practice of over 60,000 people having to sell their properties to fund care home places each year.

It could take the form of an 'inheritance levy' of up to £12,000 deducted from the estates of the elderly when they die. Alternatively, it could become a one-off fee payable at retirement. Another possibility is an additional National Insurance contribution paid during your working life to ensure the cost of care was covered in old age.

Read more here.

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Informed Choice is a firm of UK-based Chartered Financial Planners that works with individuals and small business owners to help them to build, manage and protect their wealth.