4 Couples, 4 Views on Retirement and Their Encore Life Part 2: Bill and Sharon 027
Release Date: 04/07/2020
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_outlineFor 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.
This week we feature Bill and Sharon. Bill was forced into retirement along with many others by a large utility company by using insurance benefits to leverage cutting the workforce. Sharon was offered a package that she couldn’t refuse to retire early from a national travel and insurance company.
Listen how preparation enabled them to retire. Listen how they describe the stress, success, and excitement for what still lies ahead in their encore life.
Bill and Sharon:
Action Item: Look at the resources that I have provided for this series or other resources you know of regarding preparation for retirement and take one step you know you must take to get closer to living your best encore life.
Next week we will play the conversation from another couple that both retired after lengthy careers in the last few years from the same school system my wife and I spent over 30 years with.
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