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Midlife, Retirement, and Coaching July 26 What is True Wealth: Looking at Midlife and Retirement As I looked out over the audience of my Wealthy Mind, Wealthy Life seminar that I recently taught in San Diego, I saw a group of accomplished men and women 40-55 years old entering their second half of life. They were all financially comfortable, successful, and smart. And yet, like many of us, they were seeking something more: deeper relationships, more growth on a spiritual level, and ways to create more meaning in their lives. I’m grateful I got to work with this audience. Their desires represent what so many of the people I’ve met through coach trainings and coaching, including myself, feel in the second half of our lives. Even though we may have all that we needed or wanted at this point, a lot of us are searching for a way to make our lives more meaningful. In the second half of life, often people are searching for ways to connect in a deeper way to themselves, to their community, and seeking new ways to grow and learn and to feel they are contributing in some way. The group I worked with had attained a certain level of success and was questioning, “What is a wealthy life? What defines wealth for me?” Some of this group’s answers were: creating healthy rich relationships, living with passion, contributing, having more inner peace, and following their hearts. The Six Human Needs One of the top coaches I trained with and worked with, Tony Robbins, has a great model called the Six Human Needs. The first four are basic needs, and the last two needs are our spiritual needs. The first need is the need for certainty: safety, security, the feeling that your need for survival are met on the material and financial level. Our second need is the need for variety: excitement, diversity, challenge, surprise. The third need includes the feeling of your significance: that you feel unique, important, that you see you’re bringing something unique to your job, your family or community. Our fourth need is to feel connection and love: to feel intimacy, oneness, bonded, part of a community. The fifth need is for growth: learning, changing, expanding, stretching outside of our comfort zone. Our sixth need encompasses our most spiritual desires for contribution, to feel like we’re making a difference, making our mark in the world, that we’re giving back in some way. So in our middle lives, we’re at a jumping off point. We’re living longer than our parents or grandparents. Often when people reach retirement now, we often have 20-30 years left. What’s next for you? How do you want to use this time? What unique gifts do you have and how would you most like to spend these years? July 28 Entering Coaching At Midlife or Retirement At midlife or retirement, you already have a rich skill set and life experience. What you’re often looking for is how to make a difference with the skill set and life experience you already have at this point in your life. Perhaps you’re retiring and aren’t quite ready to stop work. A lot of people who come to coaching as a profession tell me, “I don’t want to continue to work full time, but the idea of working 12-15 hours a week from my home office and really contributing to the lives of others is very appealing. I think I have a lot to offer.” Designing a part-time coaching business is ideal for people in midlife or retirement. When you coach others, you get to share your valuable life skills and experiences, your business and career expertise. And since you’re helping people design a life they love to wake up to, in becoming a coach, you’re going to be asking: How do I create the life I want, how does this fit in with my lifestyle? As a coach, you can work with as little as 5 clients a week to 30 clients a week. Often people say, “I’ve built a successful career or business already, now I would like use that work experience to create the next chapter of my own life and assist others in creating success in their career. How can I use my life experience to help others create better relationships, a better community, a better world?” How do you want to design the rest of your life? In the next blog, we’ll look at some examples of how people have used their expertise to launch themselves into the coaching profession. July 31 Using Your Expertise in a New Way In the second half of life or at retirement age, we’re often in the process of redesigning our lives to make them more meaningful, feel more connection with others, and have more freedom, fun and flexibility. Many of us have been in a profession for a long time while others have had two, three or more careers at this point, which is becoming so much more the norm. Having been a coach and a coach trainer for many years, I want to offer you some examples of how people have used their previous skills and expertise to create the life they want to wake up to. In business, I’ve seen successful realtors who are winding down their full time real estate business begin to coach other realtors in order to help them build a successful business. They’ve also been helpful in coaching other realtors to find a way to make Real Estate a good fit and create balance in their life. In the world of finance, I’ve worked with people who were in finance careers for many years switch to becoming financial coaches. They are great at helping individuals identify what wealth is for them and create an action plan to get there. Health and wellness: This is a very large, growing field and stated to be one of the top ten professions of the next decade. With all the changes in the health care policy, many health care professionals such as registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physiotherapists and nutritionists are changing professions. As a result, Health and Wellness coaching is a great fit for these professionals. Blending health care experience and training with coaching, the Health and Wellness coach assists and empowers clients to create a healthy identity for themselves. Relationship Coaching: If you’ve been a great parent or had a successful marriage, your life skills are invaluable. I’ve worked with people who have turned these important skills into a thriving relationships coaching practice where they’re helping people improve the most important relationships in their lives. In our culture, there’s been a lot of chasing youth instead of cherishing aging. But in coaching, we welcome the expertise we’ve gained throughout our life in our businesses, careers, and relationships. They are our natural skill sets, which I call your unique “superpowers”. Can you envision using your superpowers in your own midlife and retirement to grow, connect, and change your community and the world? blog comments powered by Disqus |
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