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Managing My Life:
Planning My Retirement
&
Managing My Life: Making
The Retirement Decision |
About Managing My Life: Planning
My Retirement
& Managing My Life: Making The
Retirement Decision |
| Managing My Life: Planning My
Retirement and Managing My
Life: Making The Retirement Decision are two
comprehensive, extremely user-friendly, cost-effective
self-study programs, which help participants consider all the
lifestyle aspects related to retirement or
semi-retirement. Both programs help participants develop
a much greater awareness of what to expect in retirement, and
encourage them to consider a range of lifestyle activities and
second careers which are directly related to their strengths,
skills and interests. |
| Managing My Life: Planning My
Retirement was developed for individuals who could be
retiring imminently or are a much as ten years away from their
normal retirement date. It will help them view their
retirement in a positive light and plan accordingly. |
| Managing My Life: Making The Retirement
Decision is a program for individuals who have been
offered an early retirement option by their company. The
focus of the program is to lead participants to consider the
implications on their lives of accepting or turning down the
early retirement option, so that they can make a more informed
decision about their retirement option. |
| It is highly recommended that
spouses also complete the program. |
| The Five key areas which are
covered in the programs are: |
| 1. |
The
Relationship between Work and Retirement - To help
participants realize that work provides them with a daily
structure and satisfies many fundamental motivations and
needs. These needs must be replaced adequately in
retirement or semi-retirement, and it is best to begin the
planning process before one retires. |
| 2. |
Self-Motivation - To help employees
understand the elements of self-motivation and realize how
important it is to understand and focus on one's strengths,
motivators and needs, when setting goals and taking action.
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| 3. |
Lifestyle -
Areas discussed within lifestyle inlcude: living environment,
volunteer activities, relationships, hobbies and activities,
travel, exercise, nutrition and second career options. |
| 4. |
Misconceptions about
Aging and Retirement - To help participants articulate
any concerns and feelings they have and develop a more
positive view toward retirement or semi-retirement. |
| 5. |
Goal-Setting and
Taking Action - To help participants realize how
important to set goals, and to understand the process involved
in setting realistic and measurable goals followed by action
plans. |
| Benefits For Users |
| Extremely time and cost effective
process to help users: |
| • |
Develop a clear understanding of their
strengths, motivators, and needs in order to select
appropriate activities in retirement or semi-retirement which
take into account these factors. |
| • |
Articulate any concerns and feeling they
have about aging and retirement and develop a more positive
view toward retirement |
| • |
Determine clear choices related to second
careers, living environment, volunteer activities,
relationships, hobbies, exercising, nutrition and
travel. |
| • |
Make a faster and better informed
decision about the early retirement offer they may have
received. |
| • |
Develop positive exercising and
nutritional habits. |
| • |
Learn useful goal-setting techniques and
how to break goals into action plans. |
| • |
Become calmer, more relaxed during this
transitional stage of their life. This will also help them
concentrate more effectively on their daily tasks at work and
in their personal life. |
