After 30 or 40 years as an employee, a midlife career change can require a surprisingly different set of skills. For much of a successful professional career, the rules of working life are relatively clear. You have a role. An organisation employs you. There is a salary, a job description, colleagues and perhaps a team to manage. Work arrives in your inbox. Meetings appear in your diary. Someone, somewhere, has decided that your skills are needed. Then, as you begin thinking

When Retirement Planning, Stay Curious! A client recommended I listen to this week’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Start The Week and that was where I discovered Lani Watson’s book Q: The Hidden Power of Questions in a World That Wants Answers. In this book she explains that, when curious about something, the act of then asking a question creates a little dopamine hit for the brain’s reward system. In that moment we become more receptive not just to the answer we seek, but recepti

How to think about purpose, identity, workand what you want fromt he next stage of your life The Retirement Journey When people start planning for retirement, they tend to begin with the financial questions. Do we have enough money to enjoy a comfortable retirement? When can we afford to stop working? What will our pensions and savings provide? These are important questions, and many people quite rightly work with a financial adviser to help answer them. But there is another