4 Couples, 4 Views on Retirement and Their Encore Life Part 1 026
Release Date: 03/31/2020
Your Life Plan Part 3: Time to Take Action
Your Encore Life
Today is where we form an action plan, or make specific commitments for each life account that will eventually bridge the gap between our current reality and our envisioned future of where we need to be. It is important to write you commitments as SMART goals.
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Your Life Plan Part 2 049
Your Encore Life
Today we are going to get down to the specific about several categories, or what the book “Living Forward” call Life Accounts. Examples of categories, or life accounts that you would want to include are:
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Your Life Plan Part 1 048
Your Encore Life
This is the perfect time to do what I believe is one of the most important steps to avoiding a life of regret by writing down a life plan, and we will spend the next 3 episodes replaying the 3 episodes that covered this nearly a year ago. So don’t miss a single episode of this series. Remember, just listening to teaching and information will get you nowhere unless you act on it, so here we go for part 1 of this series.
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Making Connections: Forming Lasting Relationships 047
Your Encore Life
When thinking about this topic of the importance of connecting with others, it came to me that one of the most popular series I have done was about Finding Joy in episodes 16 - 23, and one of those episodes has great information about the importance of making connections and relationships. This episode will be an encore episode from the series “Finding Lasting Joy: Relationships.
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Making Connections 046
Your Encore Life
We continue our discussion from last time on the importance of being in connection. This can be particularly important if you are retired or nearing retirement. We typically have some connection by default if we have a regular job working with others. But if you are retired or are a work at home entrepreneur, you need to be intentional about being connected with others. Regardless of whether you are working or not, we need to be intentional about being in connection with others that is healthy for us.
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Refire, Rewire, and Get Connected 045
Your Encore Life
Do you feel you need a reboot? 2020 has been a confusing year at best. Depending on your circumstances, the events of 2020 may have had little impact on your life or it could have derailed everything you were planning. We may see 2021 as a big question mark at this point, but don’t let yourself become complacent and lose sight of your dreams. Now more than ever we need to have a dream to look forward to, goals to set, and a vision for how we are going to get where we need to be.
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The One Next Right Thing We Must Do - 044
Your Encore Life
This will be a brief episode that is the most important message I have ever shared. It is that we all need to come together and pray as one to God for revival, a great awakening.
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What's Next? 043
Your Encore Life
This will be a brief episode about some things that I have observed and heard others asking, including myself.
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What Makes You, You? 042
Your Encore Life
Welcome to episode 42 of Your Encore Life. In this episode I will continue our discussion from the last few weeks on self assessments and how they can help at any stage of life, especially in your encore. I will talk a bit about my personal Cliftonstrengths results and a bit about the Enneagram, which I took recently through my coach Mark Ross as a basis for going through the Real Life Process to help me manage my priorities more effectively.
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Know Your Strengths in Your Encore 041
Your Encore Life
Welcome to episode 41 of Your Encore Life. In this episode we will be talking specifically about the CliftonStrengths Assessment and why it has value for those of us entering into or already in our Encore Life. As you may recall episodes 39 and 40 were both discussing the value of maximizing your strengths, focusing on strengths and building them rather than putting an emphasis on your weaknesses and trying to overcome them.
info_outlineI hope that you have been able to take something from episodes 24 and 25 and respond in such a way that during this time of uncertainty you have been able to spend time thinking about what this makes possible and how can I respond in uncertain times to move forward, to learn a new appreciation for some of the simpler things in life. It is encouraging to hear how churches have looked outside of their walls to reach people. God is on the move. If you didn’t listen to those 2 episodes I encourage you to go back to them at some point after you have listed to this episode. And if you did but didn’t do the action items, here they are from last week: (1) Write out by hand a note of thanks or encouragement to someone that has added value to you. I’ll bet whoever you choose to write that note to really needs to hear the words you write this week. (2) Do what you can to support local small businesses. They are suffering from this and adjusting the way they do business, such as focusing on take out and delivery and offering online substitutes, such as fitness centers.
For the next few episodes we will be playing and discussing an open conversation that 3 other couples along with my wife and I had while getting together in our North Carolina homes. The discussion was around the difficulties and joys of retirement and what each of the individuals and couples hopes and dreams are for in their encore lives.
In this first episode, we will hear from Tom and Diane. Tom is a longtime successful business man in the construction industry who is seeking an exit plan but struggling to define what that looks like. Diane recently retired from a successful 30 plus year career in the health care industry.
Did you hear the frustrations of not having a defined exit plan from a business and the struggles of the already retired spouse. Did you take note of the changes in the voices as they move from the frustrations they go through to the anticipation of what is to come by living their encore life. Tom doesn’t want to walk away from his God given talents, he wants to use them once he is free from the business by serving others. Diane is finding ways to make her retirement valuable through helping her family, through finding new hobbies and interests, and through being in community with others while she waits for Tom to retire so they can enjoy their encore lives together.
Tom & Diane:
Action Item: If you are in a position where you know you need to move toward retirement but can’t put together an actionable plan, similar to Tom, I have included a couple resources that I encourage you to check out and take one step to get you closer to where you know you need to be.
Next week we will play the conversation from another couple that both ended up retiring earlier than anticipated and how they adapted to an early retirement to live their encore lives.
Resources: