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Isn’t summer supposed to be the “kick back” time of year when life slows down a bit? Traditionally, business lightens up somewhat in the summer at Revolutionize Retirement, but this year there are so many exciting things happening that I’m challenged daily to build in my much needed breathing space as a healthy counterbalance to work.

I’m hiking with my friend Joan on Monday mornings, a great start to the week. I’m walking some each day, even if it’s a ten minute walk around the block. And, Richard suggested that I do 10 minutes of yoga before I come down to lunch every day, so I’ve hung a note in my office as a reminder! :-)

Meanwhile, I’ve just given my 30th PRINT® Survey debrief, and I’m falling more in love with this tool each time I do one. I can get bored pretty easily, but what I love about the PRINT® is that no two are exactly the same. It’s a dynamic and powerful platform on which to observe your behavior (both Best Self & Shadow) and then create clever strategies to live more and more in your Best Self. It’s not inexpensive, but it’s definitely worth it, as client after client has raved!

Then, I’m being recertified as a Professional Certified Coach this year, and to accumulate more CEU’s I’m taking my first class at Coach U in nearly seven years. My wonderful teacher, Edie Hulbert Pereira, is re-igniting my passion for Coaching and honing my coaching skills.

Finally, the first Good Vibes Coaching Group is achieving such amazing results they just opted in to continue past their four month commitment. The second Good Vibes Coaching Group got off to a strong start this month. There’s a new group forming in September. And, I’m about two weeks away from completing the 90-Day Attraction Workbook for the second time since November. There’s no doubt that I’m sailing and soaring through life right now because of it.

Find some breathing space for yourself as you explore your endless possibilities this week!

Lin Schreiber, Retirement Revolutionary

3 Most Important Mistakes to Avoid BEFORE Creating Your Encore Career
by Lin Schreiber, Retirement Coach

So what exactly is an encore career? In a nutshell, it’s a new stage of work, post-retirement, that’s purposeful, meaningful, and joyful. It’s work on your own terms. Work that matters.

Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and get started creating your “ideal” encore career?

Before getting into the nuts and bolts of the process, there’s internal work to be done -- work that will assure you end up doing what you really want to be doing. Not to worry if financially you need to get a job now. That doesn’t preclude you from embarking on the journey while you’re working.

Think about how you’ve gone about navigating your career in the past. What percentage of the time were you looking outside yourself for the answer to what was next? How often did you take the path of least resistance or do what was expected of you, rather than following your heart to what you really wanted to be doing?

This time can be different. But, only if you’re willing to put the external tasks of creating your ideal encore career on hold while you take a look inside yourself and discover what’s in your heart. You might want to use my example to guide you.

Type “A” personality that I was, I flew into my first “retirement” giving myself five weeks between my career as a television and special events producer and the beginning of what I thought should be my encore career.

Now, while I enjoyed the work that I did, and I was really good at it, it wasn’t what I really wanted to be doing. I didn’t know that at the time, because I flung myself into my next career as a documentary film producer. It wasn’t what I was being called to do; it just seemed to be the next logical step, and what everyone said I’d be great at.

It took about six weeks for me to hit the brick wall and realize that documentaries weren’t “it” for me. Next, I leaped into becoming a financial wizard, fired our financial advisor, and took over our entire family’s finances. Don’t ask me what I was thinking. Finance is about as far away from what my heart desired as I could get. But, again I was grasping at whatever seemed like a good idea at the time, instead of slowing down, taking a look inside, and discovering what I really wanted.

Finally, after hitting several more painful, proverbial brick walls, I hired a terrific life coach who helped me design the life I wanted to be living, and then create work that fit in with that life. Always before, I would create the work, and then try to squeeze some life in around the edges.

Through a series of reflective processes, I discovered the “real” me: my values, my dreams, and my desires. I learned that just because I was good at something didn’t mean I should be doing it, and that I really wanted to enjoy the freedom having my own business would afford. Happily, coaching and speaking ended up being the perfect encore career for my wonderful encore life.

I’ve never been happier.

Once I knew in my heart what I wanted to do, it was so much easier to create a nuts-and-bolts plan to get me where I wanted to go. Don't make the same mistakes I made in creating my encore career. Take an adequate amount of time to get out of your head and into your heart. Without this all-important step, you'll be wasting your precious time.

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I highly recommend the wonderful documentary, Pressure Cooker about a way-out-of-the-box Philadelphia culinary arts teacher whose passion and dedication spurs her students to ever greater heights.

See my blog below for more information.

Lin is featured on the PBS series Boomers™: Redefining Life After

In my latest RealForMe.com Blog, I talk about the possibility of teaching as your encore career, and share a wonderfully inspiring documentary I saw recently.


 

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~ Emily Dickinson

 

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Lin Schreiber is a Retirement Revolutionary who loves helping self-reliant women reinvent themselves in the next stage of life, formerly known as "retirement." Like Lin, her clients have a positive vision for the future, and the idea of riding off into the sunset for the next 30-40 years isn't in the picture.

She is a sought after speaker, Professional Certified Coach and Certified Retirement Coach. Through her business, Revolutionize Retirement™, she delivers her comprehensive coaching programs to individuals over the phone, and to groups at her Boot Camp live events. Combining her contagious enthusiasm, non-stop energy, and passion for her subject, Lin creates a fun, dynamic learning environment that energizes and inspires her audiences.

Lin is featured on the PBS series Boomers™: Redefining Life After Fifty, and is the author of The ABC's of Revolutionizing Retirement.

Contact her at www.RevolutionizeRetirement.com.

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