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• The Six Must-Reads for Your Encore Career Bookshelf
  Books give us the opportunity to explore a notion in its embryonic form and go deeper if desired. If you're contemplating an encore career and you're in need of reliable guidance, there are six books you simply must read:
  Published 12Jun2010, viewed 176 times

• Four Potential Encore Career Paths to Consider
  As a baby boomer woman looking at retirement, you're ready for a career change but would love to strike out in a new direction. If you don't have a clue about where to start or what you think you'd like to do, here are 5 inspiring, real-life stories about people just like you who are doing something different, and loving it as their Encore Career path:
  Published 13Apr2010, viewed 243 times

• Encore Careers: The Six Qualities of Successful Social Entrepreneurs
  Social entrepreneurs are individuals who come up with innovative solutions to society's most pressing problems. They see the places around them where people are falling through the cracks and systems are not working and devise creative new systems and models that really make a difference in people's lives. Here are 6 traits needed to be a successful social entrepreneur:
  Published 17Apr2010, viewed 240 times

• Encore Careers: Expand Your Thinking About How You Might Make a Difference
  There are many different ways we can make a contribution in our encore careers, most notably through volunteering. Don't limit how you define "giving back." I was reminded this week by one of my coaching clients of one powerful and very different way of making a difference on the planet.
  Published 08Apr2010, viewed 203 times

• 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.
  Published 18Mar2010, viewed 258 times

• Encore Careers: How to Be Empowered by Career Change
  The possibility of changing careers is present all the time, whether it's a career change you choose or a career change that's thrust upon you. What's important is how you make the journey from where you were to where you choose to be. Choose wisely and you'll discover you have the courage to not only survive, but to actually thrive as you move through your career transition.
  Published 10Mar2010, viewed 224 times

• 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:
  Published 17Feb2010, viewed 185 times

• 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:
  Published 27Jan2010, viewed 518 times

• Teaching as an 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.
  Published 24Dec2009, viewed 227 times

• 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!
  Published 17Dec2009, viewed 1371 times

• 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:
  Published 09Dec2009, viewed 290 times

• 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:
  Published 03Dec2009, viewed 225 times

• 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:
  Published 14Nov2009, viewed 580 times

• 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:
  Published 21Sep2009, viewed 437 times

• 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:
  Published 21Sep2009, viewed 425 times

• 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:
  Published 27Aug2009, viewed 349 times

• Encore Careers: The Secret Opportunity That Begins with Retirement
  Whether you've chosen to retire - or been forced to - you still find yourself facing the great unknown about what's next in your life. Here's how to transform a once-scary situation into one with exciting opportunities:
  Published 13Aug2009, viewed 297 times

• 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.
  Published 31Jul2009, viewed 320 times

• 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:
  Published 05Jul2009, viewed 340 times

• Eight Key Sites to Inspire Your Encore Career
  Whether you have to continue working, or if you're set financially and eager to donate your time to a cause that you find worthy, don't waste this opportunity to create your ideal encore career. Here are the top eight websites where you'll find information and inspiration to help you get your encore career on track:
  Published 05Jun2009, viewed 453 times

• 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:
  Published 21May2009, viewed 292 times

• 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:
  Published 07May2009, viewed 314 times

• 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:
  Published 09Apr2009, viewed 358 times

• 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:
  Published 02Apr2009, viewed 423 times

• Retired Before Your Time? Three Hot Job Search Tips in a Down Economy
  Your employer may have "retired" you out of your job, and the current recession dictates that you must work. However, you're at an age where conventional wisdom says you're unemployable. Here's how to get your creative juices going and have some fun with these recession-busting job hunting tips for the temporarily retired job-seeker:
  Published 15Mar2009, viewed 389 times

• 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.
  Published 09Mar2009, viewed 351 times

• 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.
  Published 13Feb2009, viewed 256 times

• 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:
  Published 02Jan2009, viewed 449 times

• 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:
  Published 15Dec2008, viewed 418 times

• Retirement Planning: 7 Secrets to Staying Calm While Your 401k is Plummeting
  The Dow Jones is whipping up and down rapidly while your life savings dwindle, your plans for a cushy retirement are fade, and a restful night's sleep has become a thing of the past. Don't allow yourself to be swept along in the negativity and hysteria. Here's how you can stay calm when chaos and uncertainty is swirling around you:
  Published 22Oct2008, viewed 355 times

• Positive Aging: How Not to Be Just Another Old Lady
  Do you feel like you're not getting older but are getting better and excited about all the options and opportunities now available to you? Positive aging is not about tightening and smoothing the external package by erasing our history, but it is about deepening and enlivening the internal package by celebrating that history. Here's are 4 rules you can follow to avoid becoming just another old lady:
  Published 07Oct2008, viewed 385 times

• Seven Reasons to Hire a Retirement Coach
  If you've been researching retirement, you've probably been told you need a Retirement Coach. You do not need a Retirement Coach, but you may very well want one. The truth is there isn't anything a Retirement Coach can do for you that you can't do for yourself. The big question is - will you do what you need to do on your own and will you get the result you really want? A Retirement Coach to help you in the following 7 areas:
  Published 27Sep2008, viewed 491 times

• 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.
  Published 18Aug2008, viewed 587 times

• 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:
  Published 17Aug2008, viewed 410 times

• 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.
  Published 15Jul2008, viewed 405 times

• 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.
  Published 02Jul2008, viewed 1159 times

• 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:
  Published 17Jun2008, viewed 613 times

• 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:
  Published 23May2008, viewed 448 times

• 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:
  Published 17May2008, viewed 382 times

• 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.
  Published 03May2008, viewed 464 times

• 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:
  Published 21Aug2007, viewed 464 times

• 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:
  Published 04Aug2007, viewed 636 times

• 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?
  Published 24Jul2007, viewed 566 times

• 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."
  Published 21Jul2007, viewed 412 times

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