Reading Time: 3 minutesTaking Small Steps: Treating Coaching Training as an Experiment I’ve decided to follow my curiosity and interest in reinventing my own retirement and helping others to reinvent theirs. My first experiment in this direction is to complete a Certified Professional Retirement Coach (CPRC) course by completing one module weekly over the next three months. The …
Reading Time: 4 minutesYour Career and Family Gave You Purpose—Now What? Most of us don’t realize how much our job defines us—until it’s gone. For decades, work gave us a built-in sense of purpose and identity. We wake up every morning knowing what we need to do and who we are in the world. But retirement changes that. …
Reading Time: 3 minutesBreaking the Saving Habit in Retirement We’ve been taught to save, not spend, all our working lives. The goal is to prepare for retirement. However, when we retire, it’s hard to reverse that approach and spend some of our money on things that make us happy. Statistics show that seniors actually spend less the longer …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently, David Sparks, aka ‘MacSparky,” invited me to give a presentation on retirement to MacSparky Labs members. Many of us are either retired or getting ready to retire. We don’t think or plan much about what we’re retiring to, just what we’re retiring from. We assume retirement will solve all our problems. I’ve been retired …
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Wednesday, 6 November 2024, David Sparks and I will do a “Friends of Dave” interactive Zoom call for the MacSparky Labs on “Talking Retirement with Jim Eagar.” The books, videos, and blog posts listed below include some of the resources I plan to mention in the call and some additional ones. If you’re interested …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Power of Focus: What You Think, You Become Aging is inevitable, but how we age is up to us. While many believe that growing older means becoming grumpy, resentful, or disengaged, it doesn’t have to be that way. Our attitude—what we focus on and how we approach life—plays a significant role in how we …
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy Journey into Volunteering As a younger man, I never thought of myself as someone who would volunteer. I always thought, “Why work for free when you can be paid?” However, after I retired, I found myself doing some volunteer work. Recently, I read a quote from Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim that made me think …
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs the number of people aged 65 and above continues to rise globally, we face an urgent challenge: how can we ensure that these extra years are filled with vitality and purpose, rather than letting inactivity accelerate the aging process? The Real Cost of Inactivity: How It Accelerates Aging in Seniors Staying physically active is …
Reading Time: 5 minutesOur culture has an unwritten expectation that a retired person will be unproductive. The very words “retire” or “retirement” perpetuate the myth that old age is an unproductive time in life and imprints the belief that people in their later years should simply sit back or indulge in a recreational activity like golf. The Seven …