by Caroline Hall | Oct 24, 2019 | Life Reinspired, Relationships
By Caroline Hall The Two Ps of People and Pleasure–in Your Next Chapter My friend Gayle Winegar is generous and creative in spirit, imagination, and love. To celebrate her 66th birthday, she invited besties from around the world to convene in Ikaria, Greece, for...
by Caroline Hall | Sep 3, 2019 | Life Reinspired, Programs & Retreats
Give Thanks! Life Reinspired Is Coming to 1440 Multiversity on Thanksgiving Weekend By Caroline Hall I’ve spent the last 20 years leading retreats, so it seemed timely to look up that word: Retreat: move back, pull out, retire, change course in light of criticism...
by Caroline Hall | Jun 10, 2019 | Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter, Purpose, Relationships, Retirement
A Few Thoughts on David Brooks’ New book, The Second Mountain I just finished reading David Brooks’ The Second Mountain on my Kindle and took lots of notes, fist-pumping “Yes! Yes!” along the way because his themes are so relevant to the work we do at Life...
by Caroline Hall | Apr 19, 2019 | Life Reinspired, Purpose, Values
By Caroline Hall A few weeks ago, Sabrina Roblin and I led a Life Reinspired three-day retreat for a group of high-powered dual-career couples contemplating their next phase of life—both individually and together. (The weekend emerged from a program we designed and...
by Caroline Hall | Jan 30, 2019 | Life Reinspired, Next Life Chapter, Values
Moving toward the next chapter requires new beliefs and behaviors… By Caroline Hall I’m 67. My husband Michael has been retired for five years. I sincerely want to be moving (er….inching) toward my next chapter of life, too. In fact, a significant portion of my...
by Caroline Hall | Sep 14, 2018 | Legacy, Retirement
By Caroline Hall My husband and I work with a great financial advisor, Dana Brewer of Birchwood Financial Partners in Minnesota, who not only invests our assets but also makes sure we have life insurance, long-term care insurance, an estate attorney, etc.—all the...
by Caroline Hall | Aug 27, 2018 | Life Reinspired, Mentoring, Retirement
By Caroline Hall This is the fourth in our series of blog posts on successful retirement/transition planning from a organizational perspective. In the first blog, we discussed the overall impact of an executive retirements. In the second post, we talked about...
by Caroline Hall | Jul 27, 2018 | Human Resources, Life Reinspired, Retirement, Succession Planning
How to underscore the “Success” in Succession Planning This is the second of our series of blogs aimed at helping companies to harvest their retiring employees’ invaluable legacies around succession planning, institutional knowledge transfer, and mentoring pre- and...
by Caroline Hall | Jul 10, 2018 | Bucket List, Life Reinspired
Your relationship with freedom is key to planning your next frontier. Last Wednesday we celebrated America’s independence, that most fireworks-worthy of attributes. Right? Well yes, in the sense that we’re not beholden to a sovereign power. And yes, in that the...
by Caroline Hall | Jun 15, 2018 | Bucket List, Life Reinspired, Purpose, Retirement
By Caroline Hall It’s never too early to dream about how to reinspire your life. Last month, Sabrina Roblin and I gave a Life Reinspired presentation at Georgetown University Business School to a conference of MBA Career Management Professionals. Our focus, as usual,...
by Caroline Hall | Apr 17, 2018 | Bucket List, Life Reinspired, Retirement
Many colleges and universities sponsor trips, lectures, and other learning experiences to serve and maintain ties to their alumni. As an alum of a certain generation, perhaps it’s time to look to your alma mater for something a little different—like taking a trip to...
by Caroline Hall | Mar 16, 2018 | Life Reinspired, Purpose, Retirement
By Caroline Hall Don’t wait until you retire to figure it all out–Proactive planning creates a powerful compass for your next chapter of life I had dinner last evening with Mary Spilde, President Emeritus of Lane Community College in Oregon, and a member of the...
by Caroline Hall | Feb 20, 2018 | Life Reinspired, Retirement
By Caroline Hall Last night I didn’t sleep well, Do List items flashing through my brain, including an as-yet unfinished Tuesday keynote. It’s now 5:45 Sunday morning, the day we’re all supposed to sleep in. On vacation, I sleep 9-10 hours a night (or so reports the...
by Caroline Hall | Jan 26, 2018 | Human Resources, Retirement, Succession Planning
By Caroline Hall As an executive coach, I recommend to my clients that they not signal their plans to retire more than a month or two in advance for fear of losing responsibility and influence when relegated to a “lame duck” role. Over time, though, I’ve come to...
by Caroline Hall | Jan 5, 2018 | Bucket List, Life Reinspired, Purpose, Values
By Caroline Hall As infants we expected—and usually received–immediate gratification. Hungry? We wailed and got fed. Since then, though, we’ve had to learn the self-control and strategies necessary for delayed gratification, because we can’t melt down and howl...
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