You may have been wondering if Life Coaching would be useful as you approach retirement, but you aren’t quite sure whether or not it would be helpful or what it might offer you. As a result of your doubts you haven’t further investigated the option of hiring a coach to enable you to cope better with the transition in your life into retirement.
You may have wondered if you could benefit from some coaching especially if you are the sort of person who likes to sort things out for themselves without involving someone who doesn’t know you and you would be unlikely to ever meet face to face.
Here are the five questions to ask yourself:
1. Do you know what you want?
Until you know what you want in your life after work then it will be impossible to achieve it! Start by setting clear goals and the steps you need to take to get to them.
2. What will you be giving up?
Leaving work means giving up some good things some bad aspects of your life. What changes when you leave work, make a list of what has to be left behind when you retire.
3. What can you do now?
Retirement opens new opportunities. What is possible now for you now that you longer have to go to work any more?
4. What could others do for you now?
Retirement is also about letting go not only of things but also of tasks. There may be some things you’ve done for years but realise that now someone else could do that instead of you.
5. Are you ready to start?
However much you want to do something and however much you plan the steps involved the time commitment you must be willing and able to take the action required too. Sometimes that turns out to be the most difficult part of the whole process: actually doing it.
Ask yourself what is stopping you and listen to the answer. It might be something to do with the where, the how the why, the what, or the who, of what you want to do and if you can’t sort this out yourself or with friends or family then a coach can help.
Answer these questions and do what you plan and you may not require anyone to coach you. However it either you don’t know the answers to any of these or you have been unable to actually take the actions you say you must take, then a coach will motivate and empower you to do so.
