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Implementing Life and Retirement Options with My Plan After 50

What role will work play in your future plan? No single answer guarantees a vibrant life after 50 for everyone. Some Boomers are well along the way on their retirement planning. Others are planning never to leave the work they love. Some find that life coaching provides them the support and accountability lacking in their plan to date, while for others, the financial independence critical to retirement planning may seem out of reach, at least for now.

Regardless of the role of work in your personal life—executive, line staff or self-employed—it’s important that your plan fully explores the many benefits you receive from work. In addition to a paycheck, consider these:

• Order and predictability
• Time management
• Purpose and meaning
• Personal identity

The movie “About Schmidt” exemplifies the person whose retirement planning doesn’t include much thought to replacing the benefits of work in retirement. Life or retirement coaching may have been a beneficial part of Schmidt’s plan. In the absence of attention to the multi-faceted role of work in his life, Schmidt experienced the depression that is all-too common (and avoidable through a plan!) during the first 18 – 24 months of retirement life.

But retirement may not even be a part of your life-after-50 plan. Recent surveys indicate that two-thirds of Boomers don’t think they’ll have enough money for retirement. Still, there are many options to explore between the extremes of retirement and a life of work. Through My Plan After 50, you’ll be supported in exploring all the options available to you, fully addressing this element essential to your vibrant life after 50! So, whether you’re in search of:

• Planning tools
• Life, retirement, even executive coaching
• E-learning communities with others of similar life interests

the rich Work resources of My Plan After 50 are here to assist you in your life planning.