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What is a retirement coach
A retirement coach makes sure your transition to retirement is the best it can be. Retirement offers you great new opportunities and personal freedom. But this is a huge change in your life. A retirement coach helps you prepare for the financial, social and emotional shifts to come. With coaching support you get the skills to make retirement rewarding and fulfilling.
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What does a retirement coach do?
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How can a retirement coach help me?
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What does a retirement coach do?
A retirement coach can work with you before you retire or shortly after you retire. The goals of coaching are to help you adjust to this major life change. This is the time in life when you define yourself outside of your career. With support from your retirement coach you’ll discover new passions in life.
Do I need a retirement coach?
You may feel adrift now that you don’t have a career to direct your energy into. If you feel bored, directionless or lonely, a retirement coach will open you up to new ideas. It’s a big change to go from work life to living the life you’ve always wanted. Your retirement coach will help you embrace the change. You’ll enter the best years of your life with happiness and enthusiasm.
How can a retirement coach help me?
Coaching before you actually retire is a great help. You’ll enter the transition with a plan that takes care of your concerns. Money is a common worry. A retirement coach talks to you about setting priorities and designing a new budget. Getting control of your new money situation reduces your stress.
You really are starting over on a personal level. A coach teaches you that retirement is the time to follow your dreams.
After working with a coach you’ll feel ready to enjoy retirement. You won’t miss the safety of your old working identity because you’ll be having too much fun learning more about yourself.
Topics a coach will help you sort out are:
- Adjusting to a different income
- Deciding to move or stay
- How to find new social connections
- How to see yourself in a new light
- Learning to set your own schedule
- Following your dreams
All the freedoms that come from retirement can be wonderful. But they can also be overwhelming. Your daily life has been geared around a job. And now it’s geared around whatever you decide to make of it. A retirement coach helps you imagine a new you.
Five great reasons to hire a retirement coach
- Changes in your social life after leaving work can be significant. But a coach prepares you to find new ways to meet people..
- A retirement coach takes the stress out of huge life decisions. With coaching you’ll face each issue one at a time and explore your options with support.
- Retirement is the time when you get to truly become yourself. Outside forces will stop defining you. And with a coach you’ll discover your most authentic self.
- You can fully look at your retirement options. You may not be ready emotionally or financially for the change. A retirement coach will help you assess the situation.
- Planning your retirement is crucial to success. With a coach you avoid costly mistakes and gain the confidence needed to reinvent yourself.