A Harrison
B.A., Cert Ed.
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Retirement Expert
A Harrison Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Retirement coaching and training, Retirement Detox, Retirement and the Single Woman
- Career Focus
- Coach, Trainer, Author, Writer
- Affiliation
- Retirement Options, 2young2retire, CoachU, Coachville, The Wellness Inventory,
A Harrison is a retirement coach, trainer and writer. She's passionate about helping people to get the happiest, healthiest, most vital, productive, energetic, prosperous and fulfilling retirement they could possibly have, whilst, at the same time, helping them to balance having the kind of retirement they want and deserve to have, with planning to meet their future needs.
Ann is a Retirement Options™ trained retirement coach and a Too Young To Retire™ facilitator. She's the author of The Retirement Detox Programme: 40 days to get your retirement back on track and Thought Provokers: Questions You Need to Ask Yourself BEFORE You Retire.
Ann is the creator of The 'Get the Retirement You Deserve' Home Study System and The Retirement Success Pyramid.
She is the owner of Contemporary Retirement Coaching, The Retiring Executive and The Association of Retired Single Women.
With a background as a lecturer and curriculum manager in further education in the UK, Ann has been working as a coach since 2000. She trained as a coach with CoachU and the Graduate School of Coaching.
She divides her time between the beautiful island of Anglesey, which is located off the coast of North Wales in the UK and the vibrant city of Manchester.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Do You Need a Retirement Detox?
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Do_you_need_a_retirement_detox.html
Retiring Soon? 14 things you should do NOW to prepare for retirement
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Retiring_Soon_14_things_you_should_do_NOW_to_prepare_for_retirement.html
How do you know when it's time to retire?
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/How_do_you_know_when_it_s_time_to_retire.html
What's on your Bucket List?
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/What_s_on_your_Bucket_List.html
The Gift of a Year
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/The_Gift_of_a_Year.html
Don't let the pounds creep up on you!
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Don_t_let_the_pounds_creep_up_on_you.html
A Harrison Books
The Retirement Detox Programme
http://www.contemporaryretirementcoaching.com/retirement_detox_programme.htm
Thought Provokers: Questions You Need to Ask Yourself BEFORE You Retire
http://www.contemporaryretirementcoaching.com/Thought%20Provokers.htm
The 'Get the Retirement You Deserve' Home Study Course
http://www.contemporaryretirementcoaching.com/GTRYD%20Home%20Study%20Course.htm
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What type of retiree will you be? Part 3
What’s your retirement style? I've identified four different types of retiree - Activists, Individualists, Specialists and Traditionalists. Specialists are the enthusiasts, the devotees, the people who have a continuing (often lifelong) passion for their work - they love what they do so much that they'll never retire and they'll just keep on working until they drop.
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Retiring Soon? 14 things you should do NOW to prepare for retirement.
1. Make an early start on planning and thinking about your life after retirement - not just the financial aspects of retirement, but the way that you want to live your life, where you want to live it, how you want to spend your time, who you want to spend it with, etc. 2. Try to become less absorbed in your work (especially if you have a tendency to become absorbed to the point of the exclusion of other, life-enhancing pursuits and activities) - aim to get (and maintain) a good work/life balance. 3.
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What type of retiree will you be? Part 1
What’s your retirement style? I've identified four different types of retiree - Activists, Individualists, Specialists and Traditionalists. Activists are the movers and shakers in retirement, the trailblazers - the ones who start new charities and foundations. They are the ones who fight for their rights and the right of others. Activists have a determination to make life better for somebody, somewhere, and their cause can be the environment, health, education or community.
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How Do You Know When It's Time To Retire?
How do you know when it's time to retire? Try some of the following on for size... 1. Work has begun to interfere with all the many other things you want to do - fitting them all into weekends and holidays is becoming more impossible or unpalatable. 2. Life just seems too short to carry on working. 3. You crave your freedom. 4. You want to have control over your time. 5. You want to retire while you have the health and strength to do everything that you enjoy. 6. You have a sense that you would regret continuing to work full time if you did it for much longer. 7.
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The 6 Stages of Retirement - Stage 6
'It's just a stage you're going through...' how many times have well-meaning friends and family members said that to you over the course of your lifetime? And don't expect them to stop now, because, as far as retirement is conce ed, there are six identified stages that most retirees go through to varying degrees. Stage 6 - and the final stage of the retirement process is the Routine phase. Routine comes when you've sorted out all your 'issues'.
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What's on your Bucket List?
Did you see the recent film, 'The Bucket List', starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson? It's about two men who meet in a hospital cancer ward after each has been given only six months to live. The 'bucket list' of the title refers to a list that one of the men has been advised to compile of the things he wants to accomplish before he 'kicks the bucket'.
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What type of retiree will you be? Part 2
What’s your retirement style? I've identified four different types of retiree - Activists, Individualists, Specialists and Traditionalists. I think of Individualists as the self-actualisers of the second half of life - they have the need to fulfil their potential and be all that they can be, and their ideal retirement would be a portfolio of activities which combines: • meaningful work, • learning, • personal development, and • community and/or voluntary activity.
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What type of retiree will you be? Part 4
What's your retirement style? I've identified four different types of retiree - Activists, Individualists, Specialists and Traditionalists. Traditionalists want a traditional 'rest and relaxation', 'pottering about' type of retirement. They don't want to change the world, or even themselves. They don't particularly want to work part-time or get a retirement career or start a retirement business... They worked all their lives and they're done with work.
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Make time for an everyday adventure
Two of the potential pitfalls of the 'Routine' stage of retirement are becoming set in your ways by having too rigid a routine and leaving no time or scope for fun and spontaneity in your life. With that in mind, here are my top ten ideas for bringing more everyday 'adventures' into your life: 1. Start by being open to new ideas and opportunities. Look out for them. Write them down in a diary or journal so that they don't evaporate into the ether. 2. Do your very best to try something new every day...
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My Top 10 Tips for Single Women Who Are Planning Their Retirement
In a recent interview, I was asked the following question: What are your best tips for single women who want to plan their retirement? This was my answer: 1. If you haven't done so already, start to think about what a successful retirement would look and feel like for you. What do you think are the component parts of a successful retirement? Write them all down. Try to define your successful retirement in a paragraph.
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The Gift Of A Year
I recently read 'The Gift of a Year' by Mira Kirshenbaum. Its subtitle is: 'How to achieve the most meaningful, satisfying and pleasurable year of your life'.
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The 6 Stages of Retirement - Stage 1
'Retirement is often viewed as an 'event' when retirement is actually both a process (requiring planning and adjustment) and a life stage (lasting for multiple years.)'Christine A. Price, Ph.D rn'It's just a stage you're going through...' - how many times have well-meaning friends and family members said that to you over the course of your lifetime? And don't expect them to stop now, because, as far as retirement is conce ed, there are six identified stages that most retirees go through to varying degrees. They are: 1. Pre-Retirement (the working years) 2.
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Contemporary Retirement Coaching
Helping people to get the happiest, healthiest, most vital, productive, energetic, prosperous and fulfilling retirement they could possibly have, whilst, at the same time, helping them to balance having the kind of retirement they want and deserve to have, with planning to meet their future needs
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The Association of Retired Single Women
The Association of Retired Single Women is a free network which helps single women get the happy, healthy, vital, productive, energetic, prosperous and fulfilling retirement they deserve whilst planning to meet their future needs.
January 18, 2011
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The Retiring Executive
Helping retiring executives get the happy, healthy, vital, productive, energetic, prosperous and fulfilling retirement they deserve.
May 17, 2010
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from A Harrison
If there's something you've always wanted to do, when are you going to do it? You have to get up out of your easy chair if you want to check out what the world has to offer. But if you wait, tomorrow has a way of turning into never. And that's sad if there's some long-ignored part of you that for a long time has been needing a special adventure to feel fully alive. Mira Kirshenbaum
You cannot assume that something beautiful and unique that exists right now will be the same tomorrow. Better get to that unsullied oasis in your dreams without delay - because you may look up one day and discover they've opened a Wal-Mart there...
Phil Keoghan
The New Retirementality means we keep ourselves connected to the community and the world around us.... Retirement doesn't mean we're tired of living or absorbed in our own decline. Purpose does not leave with age. The flow of activity can someday slow to a trickle but it will not turn off. We can stay engaged to our dying breath, and by virtue of being engaged, we will prolong that breath for many years.
Mitch Anthony
Contacting A Harrison
My main website: www.ContemporaryRetirementCoaching.com
My blog: www.ContemporaryRetirement.typepad.com (Selected as one of the 'Most Useful Sites' on the Internet for 50 plus adults by PreRetirementLife.com)
The Retirement Success Profile
My Squidoo lenses: Contemporary Retirement, Retirement Detox and Your Retirement Business
How to get started
The best and quickest way to find out about me and my products and services is to visit my website: www.ContemporaryRetirementCoaching.com. Once there, you can sign uo for my free 6-part eCourse: The 6 Stages of Retirement.
If you're a single woman who is contemplating retirement, we'd love to meet you at our free-to-join network: The Association of Retired Single Women - http://www.retiredsinglewomen.ning.com
You may also like to visit my blog, which is updated every day, Monday to Friday, with retirement-related news, articles and resources: http://contemporaryretirement.typepad.com