Give Thanks! Life Reinspired Is Coming to 1440 Multiversity on Thanksgiving Weekend By Caroline Hall I’ve spent the last 20 years leading retreats, so it seemed timely to look up that word: Retreat: move back, pull out, retire, change course in light of criticism...
A Few Thoughts on David Brooks’ New book, The Second Mountain I just finished reading David Brooks’ The Second Mountain on my Kindle and took lots of notes, fist-pumping “Yes! Yes!” along the way because his themes are so relevant to the work we do at Life...
By Sabrina Roblin “Most of us tend to think of the second half of life as largely about getting old, dealing with health issues, and letting go of our physical life…What looks like falling can largely be experienced as falling upward and onward into a broader and...
By Caroline Hall A few weeks ago, Sabrina Roblin and I led a Life Reinspired three-day retreat for a group of high-powered dual-career couples contemplating their next phase of life—both individually and together. (The weekend emerged from a program we designed and...
By Sabrina Roblin To design your next chapter of life as one that is fulfilling, a key is to identify and then live into your values. So, what does that really mean? The Oxford English Dictionary describes values as “principles or standards of behavior; one’s...
By Michael McNeill Using yourself well in service of what you care about is essential to fulfillment in retirement. My first thoughts about retirement revolved around golf, beach, and more family time—especially with my 12 grandchildren. The essence of my purpose is...
By Sabrina Roblin Change and transition are often disconcerting. The known is replaced by the unknown and when we find ourselves in this new territory, we often look outside ourselves for direction, reassurance and guidance. There is nothing wrong with this, asking...
Moving toward the next chapter requires new beliefs and behaviors… By Caroline Hall I’m 67. My husband Michael has been retired for five years. I sincerely want to be moving (er….inching) toward my next chapter of life, too. In fact, a significant portion of my...
It’s the holiday season, a time when spiritual values come to the fore – joy, peace, love, generosity, beauty and forgiveness. It’s a time when we are reminded of the importance of expressing our love through words and/or gifts, and giving to those who are less...
By Michael McNeill The only thing I know for sure about retirement is that I did not know anything about retirement until it happened. As a young man in the real estate business, I thought I might retire at 55 or maybe 65 at the latest. At the time, I was selling land...
By Sabrina Roblin Too often we underestimate the impact of leaving a vocation of many years that has given purpose, the satisfaction of mastery, and the good feeling of being of service to our fellow human beings. The impact is especially felt in the medical...
By Caroline Hall My husband and I work with a great financial advisor, Dana Brewer of Birchwood Financial Partners in Minnesota, who not only invests our assets but also makes sure we have life insurance, long-term care insurance, an estate attorney, etc.—all the...
By Caroline Hall This is the fourth in our series of blog posts on successful retirement/transition planning from a organizational perspective. In the first blog, we discussed the overall impact of an executive retirements. In the second post, we talked about...
This is the third in a series of blog posts on successful retirement/transition planning from a company perspective. In the first blog, we talked overall about the potential cost (up to 213% of annual salary), and the steps to plan well in order to mitigate those...
How to underscore the “Success” in Succession Planning This is the second of our series of blogs aimed at helping companies to harvest their retiring employees’ invaluable legacies around succession planning, institutional knowledge transfer, and mentoring pre- and...
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