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You're not getting any younger! The time to start planning WHAT you'll do in your second half of life is now! Pick any of these itineraries to begin your journey from success to significance.

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See what your week will look like after you "retire."

Get a Fast Start with a Quick Trip

Quick Trips are short questionnaires designed to help you explore a variety of 9 different adventures that include Work Options, Wellness, Relocation, Redefining Myself, Volunteering and Dealing with My Spouse/Life Partner. Upon completion, you'll receive a list of resources and suggestions to enhance your life after retirement. There is no excuse not to get started now because Quick Trips are FREE!

Set Out on a Road Trip

Road Trips are a series of question and answer explorations that dig deeper to find out what brings you satisfaction; what motivates you; what dreams are yet to be realized. When you finish, you'll receive a checklist including short and long-term goals to achieve the lifestyle you want for your life after retirement. And remember, Road Trips are FREE!

Learn From the Experts

Get advice, real-life lessons and guidance on your journey into life after retirement with the recently released book and workbook, What's Next InYour Life? How to Find Meaning Beyond the Money. This guide to the non-financial aspects of retirement is written by Joan Strewler-Carter and Stephen T. Carter, internationally recognized authorities on career and life planning.

Accelerate your Plan and Hire a Coach

Sometimes the best way to explore unknown territory is with a retirement coach at your side. A coaching session includes a 50-minute one-on-one phone interview with a professionally qualified expert in career and life planning. Coaching sessions start at $99.

Why Plan for
Life After Retirement?

Would you set out on a long trip without a road map? If you think of your life as a journey across the continent from east to west, at 50 years of age the chances are good you're somewhere in Colorado. You have a lot of highway ahead of you. The average baby boomer can expect to live 83 years.

Financial planning is certainly important. But this site is devoted to the "what" of retirement. The rocking-chair paradigm no longer holds. Today, people over 50 aren't worn out; they're energized and ready to conquer new worlds.

There's some interesting country ahead. We're here to help you create your own road map so you don't miss the sights.

So...what will your WHAT look like?
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