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Question/guidelines for Silver Cloud Oct. 24, 2012 story presenters
Silver Cloud  - Revisioning and Supporting Retirement Transitions
“...what I really wish someone had told me.”   October 24, 31, 2012 at 2pm ET
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Question/guidelines for story presenters for October 24 session
What happened? "What i really wish someone had told me."  
Queries for planning  - recommendations for  others  to consider

 

• What happened
• Crises - good and bad luck?
• External pressures or conditions that accelerated or postponed retirement
• Intended and unintended steps toward and in retirement
• Resources, including references and people, that I’ve found most helpful
• Activities that I’ve found most satisfying
• Conditions and activities that I’ve found most disappointing
• “What I really wish someone had told me.”   
• How far in advance should one begin thinking about and preparing?  Ideally?  Realistically?  What can be done if one begins significantly after the ideal time?
• How to develop realistic, useful goals?  How to recognize irrelevant, unrealistic, or distracting goals?  
• How to develop and select a few varied but useful scenarios - including but not limited to changing financial conditions?
• Steps I’ve taken, situations I’ve encountered, that I can recommend most enthusiastically to others - that others can emulate.
• Pitfalls I’ve encountered that I can identify and recommend ways to avoid
• Queries for planning  - recommendations for  others  to consider  
• Is it time to “revision” my life?  How?  What help is available?
• How do I want to spend my time?  What kinds of activities will satisfy my commitment to continue to serve and be productive?  What do I mean by “productive”?  
• How will I manage my less-structured time?
• Which factors, conditions will most strongly shape my retirement goals and activities?  Support?  Restrict?   
• What are some of the potential benefits and challenges of my social or family situation?

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