How Well Will You Negotiate the Ebb and Flow of Retirement?
Are you emotionally prepared for your retirement? Your emotional side will be dependent on how well you make the shift from work to your retirement activities. Through our life we traverse numerous stages in our development as humans. Each progressive stage of life requires us to negotiate changes that are associated with our newly defined status. Seniors typically have a very high failure rate when it comes to coping with retirement. This major life transition seems to wreck havoc with its unsuspecting victims. How will you negotiate the ebb and flow of retirement? Studies have shown that only about 20% of employees realistically address the fact their work life is nearing an end. Executives, male and female, in particular have major problems adjusting to this transition since they have invested so much in their careers. Their identity is intimately linked to what they do! Once, though, you’re faced with the reality retirement is going to happen you need to start getting ready for it!
