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Articles by Lin Schreiber
Encore Careers: Coping Strategies When Life Throws You A Curveball
Life can throw us a curveball when we least expect it, never more so than in your encore life or encore career. Here's how two Baby Boomer women created secondary plans when their initial encore life plans didn't materialize.
Encore Career: 5 Ways To Volunteer And Make A Difference
One of the best ways to find a purpose and create meaning in our encore lives is to make a difference in someone else's life. If you're looking for a volunteer opportunity as your encore career, here are 5 great organizations to explore:
Encore Careers: Work That Matters In The Second Half Of Life
There are number of encore career pathways available to you as you explore what's next after "retiring" from your current career. One of the pathways that can be truly exciting is civic engagement, or work that combines 1) making a social impact, 2) finding personal meaning and, 3) earning continued income in the second half of life. Here are the stories of 4 baby boomers who embraced social entrepreneurship as their encore career:
I love films that uplift and inspire. When they're based on a true story about a teacher who's making a difference in students' lives, I'm in heaven. I recently had the privilege of seeing the outstanding documentary, Pressure Cooker. If you're thinking about teaching as your encore career, read on to discover how this Philadelphia home economics teacher inspired her students to greatness.
Encore Careers: Creating An Online Business In Your Retirement
Whether we like it or not, we live in the information age. As Baby Boomers, we're carrying around a wealth of valuable information. What if there was a cost effective way to package your knowledge and sell it? Perhaps creating an online business is your answer!
Encore Careers: How Much Money Is Enough For Your Encore Life?
"How much money is enough?" is a great question to ponder in your journey to an encore career. And, it becomes even more important if your retirement nest egg has taken a serious hit in the current economic climate. Here's one important step you MUST take before you leap into your encore career:
Encore Careers: 4 Ways To Inject Fun Into Your Next Career
As you are considering retirement, you may be ready to explore some of the many options available to you in the wonderful world of encore careers, where you transition into a new career instead of retiring. Here are 4 ways to inject meaningful engagment and fun into your encore career:
Encore Careers: What's Your Expertise?
After you have established your core values as a tool for discovering your encore career, the next step is to determine what skills or expertise you have that align with what you define as your personal values. Uncovering those things that you most enjoy that you're good at is a great next step on your internal journey of discovery for your ideal encore career. Take some quiet reflection time, and ask yourself these seven must-ask questions:
Encore Careers: 4 Steps To Determine What You Value
One of the most powerful tools for determining what you really want in your encore career (and life) is clarifying your personal values. Values as those things that really matter to you and are unique to you. Here are 4 steps to determining what you value in your encore life:
Encore Career: 7 Key Steps To Determine What You Really Want
An internal journey is key to helping you discover what you really want to be doing in your encore career. You start this journey by determining what it is you really want. Here are the 7 steps you can follow to help you determine what you really want in your encore life and encore career:
3 Most Important Mistakes To Avoid BEFORE Creating Your Encore Career
An encore career is one in which you do work that matters on your own terms. Most baby boomers make 3 classic mistakes in their quest to quickly create an encore career. Here are the 3 most important mistakes to avoid before you create your ideal encore career:
Boomer Job Search: Confidently Create Your Encore Career
If you've been downsized or you just can't keep doing what you're doing, does the prospect of looking for a job make you want to run screaming from the room because you think you're too old to start over? Discover how your beliefs in your abilities will help you land the job that you really desire.
Encore Career: 6 Truths About Choosing The Encore Career Of Your Dreams
An encore career permits you to retire the part of your life - your work -- that no longer fits, and embark on a new career of your dreams. Here's how to make a great encore career choice:
Top Six Encore Career Resolutions For Spring
Have your encore career plans been hibernating for too long? Are you ready for a new approach to moving your life forward? Consider these spring resolutions to jump start your encore career:
8 Steps To A Successful Do-It-Yourself Retirement Planning Retreat
In the same way that major businesses plan a corporate retreat each year to set their goals and create their plan for the upcoming year, baby boomers can create a retirement planning retreat to help them plan their encore lives. Here are 8 steps to help you successfully create the encore life you desire:
Positive Aging: Six Things To Start Doing When You Turn 60 (Besides Celebrate!)
If you're one of the approximately 13,680 people who are turning sixty every day, you might find yourself panicking at that thought. Instead of falling into a deep funk related the the numerical value of your birthday, use the time instead to take stock of your life, redefine your priorities, and begin the following six practices:
Your Encore Career: Three Steps To Take You From Now To Encore Career WOW
Many women don't want to retire in the traditional sense but instead want to create an encore career that is more aligned with who they are at this stage in their life. There are many tools that help the 50+ find jobs, but they won't help unless you've done some foundation work first. Here are 3 steps you need to complete as you consider your encore career:
Three Reasons Why Boomer Women Have To Work In Retirement (Hint: The Economy Isn't One Of Them!)
Despite the fact that many baby boomer women have a successful career or business, the majority of them are not adequately planning for their future. Why? Because many cling to outdated beliefs about women and money. Here are 3 outdated beliefs that boomer women need to discard to take control of their financial future.
Can't Afford To Retire? 5 Ways To Rethink Working So It Works For You
The state of the economy may have you rethinking your retirement. If you feel stuck in your current job, have lost the joy in what you do, and are filled with doubts about making a job or career change, here are 5 ways to rethink the notion of working and retirement so that it works for you.
Retirement Transition: 4 Reasons To Get Unstuck NOW
Many 50 to 60-something women are awakening to the reality that they're stuck in a life they no longer want to be living. They know it's time to move on, but don't know where or how to start planning the next thirty or more years of their lives. Here are 4 ways to acknowledge that you're stuck and need to break the log-jam:
Five Ways To Avoid Having A Retirement Identity Crisis
So many people become completely lost without the identity provided by what they do for a living. As you head into retirement, clinging to the past is not the way to successfully make this transition. While it can be scary to walk away from the identity you carried for so many decades as defined by your career, here are 5 ways you can avoid a serious retirement identity crisis:
Retirement Transition Plan: Don't Leave Work (for Retirement) Without These 3 Plans In Place
Much of the US working population can't wait to retire. But before you leave your job for retirement, make sure you've created an infrastructure that will support you in thriving, not merely surviving, this next stage of life.
Retirement Transition Plan: Three Ways To Clear The Decks For Retirement
There is much to think about when planning for retirement, from what you want to do, where you want to live, how to stay healthy, and how to cope with the changes that are bound to come your way. It's easy to go into overwhelm. Before you begin to create your future, take some time to take stock of your life history in these 3 ways:
Retirement Transition Plan: Three Brilliant Ways To Segue Into Retirement
A segue plan, or transition plan, will help you avoid post-career depression and other assorted woes that happen to those who fail to plan for their retirement. You may not know what's next for you, but you can make sure that you set yourself up for a painless transition. Here are three examples of how other boomers planned their transition from their career to retirement.
Don't Let Fear Of Retirement Stop You From Taking The Leap
You believe you're ready to retire but you won't pull the plug on the status quo because of the fear about what life will be like for you upon retirement. Your rear is keeping you stuck right where you are. You can actually use fear to fuel you forward in your life. Here are the three most common types of fear that can keep you from taking the leap into retirement and how to move yourself beyond these fears.
How To Know When It's Time To Retire From Your Current Career
Many people, when talking about retiring, say that they plan to retire in five years. For some reason, five years seems to be the magic years-from-retirement number. In many cases, baby boomers want to keep retirement a moving target because they don't know when it is the right time to say goodbye to their career. Here are 5 ways to know the time is right to retire from your current career:
Three Secrets To Positive Aging (No, Two Of Them Are NOT Diet And Exercise!)
The exciting field of brain science, and research reinforce that you no longer have to look forward to your mother's (or father's) old age. So much of the research is pointing toward the strength of your personal foundation and development of certain capabilities that keep you young and vital and determine your happiness as you age. The following are three factors that are crucial to positive aging:
How To Create A Happy Retirement By Tuning Out Well-Meaning Advice
Many baby boomers have moved through life by making transition decisions all along based on external forces. If you're planning on following the same strategy as you create your retirement, you're headed in the wrong direction for this next transition. To truly revolutionize retirement, you'll have to tune out the advice that's screaming at you from these five sources:
6 Essential Steps To Creating A Revolutionary Retirement
In the transition into your retirement, you'll discover that the journey is really the destination. The more you're able to enjoy and be present in the journey, the easier the transition, and the better the end result. Here are the 6 steps you need to follow during this transition to create the kind of retirement and life that you really want.
Five Strategies For Having Enough Money For Your Dream Retirement (While You're Still Breathing!)
Most people think that's all retirement is about -- having enough money to sit on the deck, play golf, and visit the grandkids. But that's the old model -- not today's retirement. Someone who turns 65 today can expect to live until age 83, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here's 5 strategies to help you pursue your dream retirement:
Seven Illusions, Delusions & Downright Lies About Retirement
You've heard most of them before. They seem like well-meaning retirement advice. But, BEWARE. The following illusions, delusions and downright lies about retirement can be dangerous to your retirement well-being:
The New Retirement Attitude: Today's 60 Is Yesterday's 40
If I say "retirement," what are the first five words that come to your mind? If they are "leisure," "relaxation," "comfort," "golf" and "old age," you're thinking about yesterday's retirement. This is the 21st century, when the new 60 looks like the old 40. And when retiring means "growth," "new opportunities," "excitement," "challenge," and "self-discovery." Do these new definitions match your retirement vision?
How To Revolutionize Your Retirement Thinking
You hear the word "retirement" and you imagine the room full of admiring colleagues and the presentation of the gold watch. Maybe retirement will be the end of your work life. If so, this is the biggest change you'll experience since birth. Your life will no longer be about "What do you do?" Retirement gives you the opportunity to grow into the best possible YOU. "Who you are" is so much more important than "what you do."