My name is Ann Harrison and I'm the owner of the Contemporary Retirement Company. I'm a Retirement OptionsTM coach, a pre-retirement trainer and the UK’s only 2young2retire
I originally trained as a life coach with CoachU and the Graduate School of Coaching and before that, I spent many years in further education as a lecturer and manager.
I developed The Retirement Detox Programme in 2006 after growing concerned about the number of people (up to 20% of all retirees) for whom retirement was just one big disappointment. 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.
When I took my first retirement from my job as a Curriculum Manager in a college, I couldn’t wait to have a break from work and thoroughly chill out. However, the longer I chilled out, the more problems I experienced. You know the ones I mean:
- the feelings of isolation
- the loss of interaction, camaraderie and support from your workmates
- coping with the reduced income
- the feeling of ‘redundancy’
- the feelings of guilt about doing nothing of any value
the weight gain/loss of muscle tone - the minor health ‘niggles’ and worries
- the knowledge that you are not focusing enough attention onto your health, wellbeing and illness prevention
- the feeling that you have more than this left in you – that you’re not ready to be put out to pasture just yet
which all add up to
the knowledge that you haven’t got the vital, healthy, prosperous, productive and fulfilling life that you really wanted (and deserve) to have in retirement
Fortunately for me, before I left my job, I had already begun training as a life coach and I was able to turn things around and set up my own coaching practice - building a business which has spun off into several unexpected sidelines – one of which lead to me training as a retirement coach with one of the best known retirement coach training schools and becoming a certified Retirement Options coach.
Through my training I learned that most of us spend more time planning our annual holiday than we do planning the non-financial aspects of our retirement, and that, consequently, many retired people report that they ‘wasted’ the first 18 months to 2 years of their retirement – ironically, the time when they were at their youngest and fittest.
So, what about you? Do you feel that you're wasting your retirement? Does everyone around you seem to be coping better with retirement than you are? Do you wish that you'd never bothered retiring at all? If this sounds like you, here are some of the ways I can help...
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