Process of Reinvention
Learn about Yourself
Evaluate your Values, Call, Legacy, Passions, Strengths, Skills, Motivators/Drivers, Preferences, Solicit Feedback
Look for themes, dreams, glass balls, rubber balls
New Learning
Question the Givens
Formulate new criteria for making decisions
What are your parameters in terms of family responsibilities, financial limits, physical limits, geographic ties?
How do I and others view myself and how would I like to tweak this in the future?
Discover Options
Broaden your possibilities, think out of the box
Brainstorm based on the first two steps
Research online, informational interview, shadow
Evaluate “Fit”
Narrow the field of options
What will be the role of meaningful work and amount of time, configuration of work, level of risk, training needed?
What options align with the new givens, and what I know about myself, and are open/growing areas?
Experiment, try something on eg. Intern
Plan Action
Draw on your Blueprint from Steps 1-4 and formulate Short Term and Long Term Goals with actions to be taken and a timeline
Move Forward
Implement the Goals, on a daily, weekly basis with ongoing evaluation, preparing for detours, and increase network, building in rewards, look for mentor, traveling
companion on new path forward.
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We call the life stage
between 50-75 the “3rd Age”- the time when we can revisit and focus anew on the 3-legged stool.
You may feel like a pioneer, contemplating an elected or un-elected transition midlife and clear that the experience of your parents is quite different than your circumstances and world today. Our generation is developing a new template with countless options for this 3rd Age, many choosing to continue working, but with new parameters, others choosing to retrain, start and grow businesses, travel and volunteer, locally, nationally and internationally, to name a few. With increased longevity, changing economic times and terrific “social capital” and resilience in our 50+ population, we are rewriting the face and meaning of that phase called retirement.
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