Our Services
The path to a fulfilling life in retirement is a process of reimagination
RQ Assessment
The RQ Assessment is a landmark approach to measuring personal retirement readiness and will inform our process of retirement planning, decision-making, and transitioning from full-time work. It is 56 questions long and can take 15-20 minutes to complete. It scores you in several areas:
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Your perceptions about the retirement transition
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The significance of your work life's impact on your move into retirement
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The relationship between your assumptions and beliefs about retirement with your personal style, behavior, and personality
Each section is scored and combined into an overall RQ score. The program will generate a detailed and personalized 15-page report that I will send you. Then we will schedule a time to go over and discuss the results together. This follow-up discussion is actually the most important part of the process because the true value in any tool like this is how we use it to design subsequent coaching.
Your Purpose
What has worked so far
Looking Back/ Imagining Forward
Path To Purpose
Looking Back/Visioning Forward
It is important to examine when, in your life experience to date, your self-esteem has felt at its best and what exactly was the source. Understanding this is critical as you map out experiences in your future that we want to be similarly uplifting. You'll use an exercise called "Life Line" to reflect on each ten-year increment of your life and note which events/experiences generated positive self-esteem. We'll look for themes.
You’ll capture the most useful insights to use in the next steps.
What’s Worked for You So Far
You'll dive into a framework developed by Dr. Martin Seligman called PERMA, which identifies five aspects of positive psychology: Positive Emotions, Engagement. Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishments. We will work together to think through your sources of each now and in retirement.
We also will look at the Ikigai philosophy, a Japanese concept of purpose and happiness. You'll complete an exercise on the implications of Ikigai for you.
Your Purpose Statement
The work in your self-reflection modules will lead you to grapple with your purpose...to act as a guidepost for what your retirement life should provide. Actually writing the statement in words is key.
Relationships
Your Dynamic Portfolio
Your Plan:
Let's Go!
From Purpose to Plan
Your New Portfolio
Your purpose will be a guide for ways to spend your time in retirement. What is your vision of a perfect day in retirement? A perfect week? What are you curious about potentially pursuing with your newly available time? What rises to the top of your curious list? What will it take for you to pursue some of them? You’ll assess how you use your time now, and in 5 years, and in 10 years. You’ll get excited about what your life it going to be like!
Relationships
Every study of happiness in every culture points to the quality of relationships as the key ingredient. With your move away from work relationships and with potential relocation by you or your friends, your network of relationships will change. You will take inventory of your relationships and decide your priorities for cultivating and extending them, as well as where and how to make new ones. You’ll capture the most useful insights to use in the next steps.
Your Plan
Finally, we’ll create an action plan for what you want to have, to do, and to be in retirement...and what resources you'll need to get there. We’ll get you going on your next steps.
Couples Coaching
Whether you and your significant other are on the same timeline for retirement or not, your expectations, hopes, and concerns for this life stage deeply affect each other. We will use an assessment tool to get at each of your starting mindsets and shed light on the similarities and differences. Then we’ll go through the Path to Purpose and Purpose to Plan process individually and compare insights together. The goal is not the same plan, rather it is alignment where it matters, with acceptance and respect for each of your individual aspirations.
Contact me with any other questions.