Secrets for Swofties - Five steps to manage your retirement transition

Retirement is a major life change like marriage, divorce and bereavement and while some life changes can be anticipated like getting married, others are unexpected like losing your partner. Change is hard. If it was easy, we would all lose weight, stop smoking, exercise and quit that dreaded job. However, it’s one thing to make a change but totally different to experience the transition that comes with it.

Change is an action or event. Examples of this are, divorce, redundancy and retirement. Transition is the psychological process we go through, the emotional and mental "reorganization" that we always go through when we make a change, no matter how big or small the change might be. The process is inevitable and not always pleasant. Sometimes we feel insecure about the decision we have made and our competence to follow through. We might also feel sad about the loss of our previous life and all that went with it.

So, if we use divorce as an example, receiving the Decree Nisi is the change, while the process of becoming a single woman, developing an independant life is the transition.

One of the ways to help us manage change and transition in our life is to think about a previous change we have been through, for example staring our first job, getting married or losing our mother or father. Think about a life change you have experienced and use the following five steps to see how you manage change successfully. You can then use what you have learned to plan your retirement.

1.       What feelings did you have before the change?

 

2.       What helped you come through the change successfully?

 

3.       How did you feel when the change was completed?

 

4.       What/who helped you to move on?

 

5.       What practical support were you able to make use of?

 

So my secret is, use past experience of how you managed change to help plan your retirement transition. Go girl!

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