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Finding Your Life’s Purpose | Baby Boomers
By Jack Beauregard, author, founder and CEO of Successful Transition Planning Institute. One night years ago, I awakened to a message which was, “Use the skills that have allowed you to achieve...
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Is Working Over-Rated? | Baby Boomers
I had just returned from a round of golf with a friend who is also a neighbor (Jim). As we were unpacking the car, we saw another friend (Sam) still dressed in his shirt and tie, getting his mail. We...
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Pass the Turkey (and where’s my bleeping check) | Business Succession
by Paul Cronin COO, Successful Transition Planning Institute My annual homage to Thanksgiving and the foibles of business succession in families, first published in 2011. You might be wondering what...
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Pause for Peace
During this special season of gathering with friends and family, we are asking you to pause and give some thought toward a world with more peace. With the many troubles in our country and the world, if...
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How to Live with Significance & Purpose
by Jack Beauregard, author, founder and CEO of Successful Transition Planning Institute (STPI) For those of you who find yourself wondering “who am I now?” and “what’s next in my life?”, please look at...
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Nothing to do or nothing to live for?
by Paul Cronin, COO Successful Transition Planning Institute - Each Sunday I like to read the Boston Globe cover to cover (the actual paper, not online). Although I read a lot of online news, there is...
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Business Succession: an Act of Love
By Paul Cronin, Partner, Successful Transition Planning Institute There is an old vaudeville joke: A man with a gun stops a businessman and his wife on the street and says to the husband, “your wallet...
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Are you too old to leave your business?
I posted something on a Linkedin group once, and one person commented that she had been trying to get her 80 year old mother to retire from the business “for years”, but that she gave up. Her mother...
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Time: do you have too much or too little?
In my younger days, I often felt that time went too slow. As I get older, I see that it really goes too fast. In the book “The Time Keeper” by Mitch Albom, we are told a story of the real Father...
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Death and Significance: Part 1
by Jack Beauregard, author, founder, CEO of Successful Transition Planning Institute (STPI) One time my wife and I brought one of our granddaughters to the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay football...
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Baby Boomer Insights: Purpose is MIA
Recently we ran a survey of a small, anonymous sample of business professionals (age 50+ lawyers, accountants, business consultants, bankers and the like) who were working full time, asking them to...
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Too Busy for Finding Purpose in Life
When I took my annual golfing pilgrimage to Myrtle Beach this past March, I played a couple rounds with a friend “Bob”. Since I only see him once or twice a year, I asked Bob “how is everything?”, he...
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Watching TV = Life After Retirement
I read Quora.com from time to time to see what questions people are asking about retirement and family. Here is one I just answered from a concerned daughter: “My dad is 60 years old and retired. All...
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Gratitude, How to Appreciate the Purpose of Life
I read an article titled No Savings? No Problem. Three Alternatives For Retirement, about options for living with little retirement savings. The ugly truth is that a lot of boomers will need a major...
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Anything for Aunt Louise: Finding Meaning in Life
About 3AM on July 10, I got the call from my oldest brother that everyone dreads, “hi Paul, the nursing home just called me to say that mom died a short time ago.” He went on to say that he had woken...
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Didn’t accomplish much today – Retirement and Good Living
The woman spoke the words gently, after we had a long conversation about her career ending and her new ‘retirement’ starting – “I think of things to do for the following day, and at the end of the next...
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What will you put on your business card? – Reinventing Yourself after 50
by Larry Gard, Ph.D In the next decade scores of baby boomers will be thinking of retiring or selling their businesses. For most people this feels like uncharted territory, a bit like reinventing...
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Pause for Peace
During this special season of gathering with friends and family, we are asking you to pause and give some thought toward a world with more peace. With the many troubles in our country and the world, if...
View ArticleLeading With A.I.R. Conference/Retreat
The Leading with AIR Conference is designed to be a transformative leadership training experience for both experienced and emergent managers, business owners and leaders. It is a day and a half long...
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“Done With Work”– Life After Retirement book review
Review posted by By Jack Beauregard Retirement creates an unnatural life sequence. Throughout our lives most events proceed in order, from beginning to middle to end. But by its very nature, retiring...
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