The Retirement Lifestyle
I inadvertently failed my first retirement. I discovered that my actual retirement lifestyle was different from my anticipated retirement lifestyle and that I was looking for a retirement sense of purpose. When I looked for help there was none as the majority of information on retirement is on finance and not lifestyle! I also discovered that I was not alone in having this retirement experience. I returned to work and began to study the process of how to make the lifestyle change from working to retirement. I have since successfully retired. Now I occasionally (because I am retired) professionally mentor potential retirees, provides retirement lifestyle lectures and speak on this topic at national level Human Resources (HR) Conferences. Based upon suggestions and encouragement from friends and clients is was suggested that I write an book on "How to Successfully Make the Lifestyle Change from Working to Retirement" This book provides informative data, research, and experienced based learnings on how to transition to the retirement lifestyle. It includes information on the the retirement tipping point, the six stages of adjusting to retirement, the three key enablers of a successful retirement, a proven process on how to make the decision to or not to retire, how to engage those closest to you and your trusted advisors in making and adjusting to this lifestyle change, and how to achieve your “anticipated retirement lifestyle.” The book is now available as an ebook from Amazon for $9.99. Comment from a Fortune 50 Employee whose company was going through a major change.“ Thanks again for all the help you provided when I was considering retirement. To say the least, your advice was priceless.” Comments from HR professionals at the Gulf Coast Symposium on Human Resource Issues. “Great information that I can bring to our employees.” “Excellent. Great presentation! I had a shift in mindset of how to communicate with pre-retirees.” So if you do not want to or have the time to read a book consider watching my Retirement Lifestyle Videos. The following brief YouTube videos feature some of the key retirement concepts detailed in the book "How to Successfully Make the Lifestyle Change from Working to Retirement." The video titles below are directly linked to the videos. All the video are available on my YouTube video channel - https://www.youtube.com/@jjons1
1) Program Overview. An overview of the following nine videos that illustrate key concepts and processes in successfully making the lifestyle change from working to retirement. 2) Anticipated Retirement Lifestyle vis Actual Lifestyle. Describes the difference between your “anticipated retirement lifestyle” – the lifestyle that you desire, plan for and hopefully achieve and the “actual retirement lifestyle” – the retirement lifestyle you end up living. 3) Retirement Sense of Purpose. Highlights the “retirement sense of purpose” that is a critical success factor in achieving a retirement routine and inevitably a successful retirement. 4) Retirement Tipping Point Experience. Introduces the “retirement tipping point” when some specific event or situation occurs that lets the potential retiree know that it is time to retiree. 5) Stages of Retirement. A brief overview of “Stages of Retirement” by R. C. Atchley and highlights where “Managing the Transition” from working to retirement enables a successful transition. 6) What Retirees Do in Retirement. A brief overview the “Six kinds of Retirees” theory developed by N. K. Schlossberg that explains what retirees may do in retirement. 7) Why Retirees Do What they do in Retirement. A brief overview of two retiree theories, “Activity Theory” developed by R. Havighurst and “Continuity Theory” developed by G. Maddox that explains why retirees may do what they do in retirement. 8) When Retirees Do What the do in Retirement. A brief overview of when retirees may do what they do during the “active phase of retirement” and the “guided phase of retirement.” 9) Retirement Enablers. Describes the 3 key enablers of a successful retirement – finance, fitness and fun – and the “retirement wobbly stool theory” that illustrates how a retirement may fail if one of these retirement enablers is either weak or missing when making the transition to retirement. 10) Retirement Transition Process. A brief description of an abbreviated process on how you can successfully make the lifestyle change from working to retirement. All photos (c) J. Jons 2024- contact me for requests to use the photos. |
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