Tag: #retirement

As you think ahead and plan for your retirement or you begin a phased retirement, you could improve your preparation by looking back at how you planned and managed your career. Your career didn’t just happen.  It required thoughtful planning and careful consideration of moves to different roles or even different companies. As your career […]

I’ve been writing about retirement – specifically a phased approach to retirement – for quite a while. Even though I think of this as a somewhat novel approach, compared to a traditional ‘retirement day,’ I’d still been thinking of it as happening at the end of a long-ish career where you or I slowly exit […]

A commonly heard definition of insanity is attributed to Albert Einstein.  That is, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” The first thing that comes to mind for me is the Minnesota Vikings trying to establish their running game. The second thing that comes to mind, since I’m a […]

I’ve read several articles now noting that after 40 days of retirement the multiple Superbowl and MVP winner “unretired.” My theory is that he’s really pursuing a Phased Retirement. He’s coming back, yes, but will probably avoid the playoffs to start dialing back his workload. Had he done this in the first place, he wouldn’t […]

When someone retires, regardless of how much preparation they’ve done, they’ll likely go through a series of stages.  In a traditional retirement scenario, you might have stages that look like this: Retirement Day (yay!), the Honeymoon Period (this is so awesome!), Disillusionment (is this it?), and then it’s either Figure it Out…or Back to Work […]