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“How Do I Know If I Really Want to Retire?”
Begin by exploring The Three Types of Retirement

One of the most compelling questions we’ve been asked for our “Catch the Wave of the New Retirement” program is “How do I know if I really want to retire? Are there signs?”

To help you to address that question, we are providing the following information on “The Three Types of Retirement.” Understanding these three types of retirement can help you to understand if you want to “retire,” and if so, what type of retirement you want to transition into. 

Please feel free to e-mail us with your questions.

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Our Vision

A world where individuals are passionately declaring and living their possibilities.

Type 1: The Old Retirement

Main Focus: Rest - Leisure - Reward

Indicators of Type 1 Retirement:

  • Retirement Planning = Traditional Financial Planning
  • Lifestyle Focused
  • Concerned primarily with rest and leisure
  • Outer focused
  • Brought on by age or situation of work environment
  • Specific to age, occupation, and money accumulated
  • A relief
  • External variables direct life

Our Mission

Key Questions of Type 1 Retirement

How much is enough?

Will I have enough?

What type of lifestyle do I want in retirement?

When will I have to retire?

Corresponds to
Stage 1 of the On-Purpose Retirement Course

To expand the creative capacity of individuals in order to declare and fulfill their possibilities in a joyful, meaningful, and life-enriching manner. We achieve this through transformational learning and personal coaching.


Type 2: The New Retirement

Main Focus: Life Balance and Value Alignment

Indicators of Type 2 Retirement:

  • Retirement Planning = Traditional Financial Planning + Values-Based Life Planning
  • Integrity Focused
  • Concerned with meaining and life purpose
  • Inner and outer focused - quality of life
  • A realization that a major stage of one’s life needs to change
  • Not specific to age or occupation, but to turning points in one’s life
  • A new beginning
  • Values and Purpose guides life

Key Questions of Type 2 Retirement

What are my values?

What is my purpose in life?

How can I best express my values and live my purpose?

When and why do I choose to retire?

Corresponds to
Stage 2 of the On-Purpose Retirement Course


Type 3: Beyond Retirement

Main Focus: Redefining - Redirecting - Reinventing

Indicators of Type 3 Retirement:

  • Retirement Planning = Traditional Financial Planning + Values-Based Life Expression + Passionate Commitment to Personal Growth and Evolution
  • Authenticity Focused
  • Concerned with Legacy and making a contribution to the world
  • Inner and outer focused; more global in view
  • An intentional creation of the conditions and capacities necessary to grow and evolve to benefit self, other, and world
  • An ever-expanding opportunity
  • Passion and the pursuit of Authenticity inspires life

Key Questions of Type 3 Retirement

How can I create the conditions and capacities that will continue my development & evolution?

What will be my legacy?

How can I best live my Authenticity

Corresponds to
Our 8 Action Steps to a Fulfilling Second Half of Life

In what ways has then been helpful to you? What additional questions has it created for you? Feel free to send us your additional questions: denver@mynewretirement.com.

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