Short term life planning

Short term life planning

There comes a time when we may decide to think more about the future, what is right for us. I write around retirement, so this could be a time when you begin to think about how you want your life to be, moving forward. Career It could be this is the time for a...
How retirement can affect self-esteem

How retirement can affect self-esteem

How retirement can affect self-esteem This time I wanted to share a small aspect of my research. Retirement is not a single event, but a process over time. It also means that we begin to be affected by this event as we prepare and then transition to retirement. For...
Where to live in later life?

Where to live in later life?

As I share info on rethinking retirement, it will cover so many areas of our lives. Whilst career and work is still important, so too is thinking about where we live. Thinking about retirement, we also need to think about where we live and all the stuff we have...
Will you have a fulfilled retirement?

Will you have a fulfilled retirement?

I want to take a step away from the positive aspects of later life to consider wider society. When people of my generation (I’m 64) think of retirement they have history to consider. The life stages used to be straightforward. Many went straight from school to work at...
Retirement is no longer the passage to old age

Retirement is no longer the passage to old age

Retirement is changing, rarely the clean break and a life of leisure. People want more. Whilst some will continue in work, they want it on their terms. Others want to follow a new path, to focus on what is meaningful to them. No matter our age, we all will reach our...