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Get the retirement you deserve! Retirement-related information, advice and articles from Ann Harrison, a Retirement Options-trained coach and Too Young To Retire facilitator
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When disenchantment with retirement turns into depression
If your disenchantment with retirement is starting to turn into depression, check out this fabulous blog post by the magnificent Barbara Sher about an email exchange that she'd had with someone suffering from depression. It contains extremely...
What do retirees do all day?
What do retirees do all day? According to this US News report, they linger slightly longer over food, sleep, shopping and household chores, and watch 4 hours of TV each day, compared to the 2 and a half hours that the rest of us watches. Not ex...
What will you do all day when you retire?
Sometimes, when people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I'm a retirement coach and trainer, they'll say, 'Oh, I'm never going to need your services - I know exactly what I'm going to do when I retire... I'm...
Are you running out of steam at work?
As your retirement date approaches, it's not unusual to start to experience some feelings of disengagement from both the workplace in general and your job in particular. Let's face it, you have so much to look forward to, it's hardl...
What would you like to become excellent at?
It takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve excellence. Retirement 'frees up' between 2,000 and 3,000 hours per year. What would you like to become excellent at? ...
Don't forget to take time off from your relationship if you want it to thrive in retirement
Do you worry about you and your partner getting under each others' feet once you both retire? Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer and practitioner in the field of personal growth and relationships and is best known for his work......
Thought Provokers (that were too late to make it into the book)
Do you REALLY need the car you currently drive or would a smaller, more environmentally-friendly and more economical one suffice? For over 500 questions designed to help you get the happiest, healthiest, most vital, productive, energetic, propserous ...
Prepare to have your thoughts about your retirement completely provoked!
Well, the launch of my new book may have been delayed slightly following my latest house move, but today I'm pleased, proud and happy to announce that Thought Provokers: Questions you need to ask yourself BEFORE you retire is now......
Retirement Still the 'Holy Grail' By Richard P. Johnson, Ph.D.
The current economic downturn has ignited a raging debate over the future of retirement. On the one hand we find the nay-sayers who claim that retirement is dead. Retirement, they say, was an idyllic anomaly created by western culture's transition......
