A wooden toothbrush EML covered the full spectrum from the largest global issues to the trivial and apparently insignificant – it is amazing how they are connected. Living longer (where we focus) is interrelated with a vast range of of other changes that collectively shout ‘the way we live life is changing – very fast […]
Do you suffer from the deep seated puritanical strictures that we so often put on ourselves? If so, you are not alone… EML coach clients going through some of the biggest changes in their lives at a time when all the certainties we once knew no longer hold true, and yet some clients feel that […]
When discussing living longer with teaching staff I sometimes encounter a defensive response along the lines – ‘I’m not comfortable with the idea of telling our students that they are going to have to work longer – they won’t understand’ to which my answer is ‘Give them credit…’ I work with many people making the […]
Until recently much of the demand for EML’s services has come from that privileged sector – those with a gold-plated pension scheme. They are the ones with significant wealth who often toy-with the idea of ‘doing something’ yet, according to a leading wealth planner, in over 80% of cases they eventually decide to ‘do nothing’ and […]
One challenge faced when coaching clients through life’s second big transition (the move on from full time employment) is addressing the bigger question. Why? For decades the demands of job, mortgage, family and debt have set personal agendas and there has been little choice but to keep your head down and work through it. […]
There is a growing television audience for real life documentaries about extreme hoarding and a good reason for the mounting interest. Coping with an ever-growing pile of ‘stuff’ is a challenge most of us face and these programmes show us we are not alone. They are also a timely warning of how life would be […]
I have written at length about the changing nature of later life and, more recently, about the prospects for ‘millennials’ – those facing 70 years of working life before retiring in their late 80s. But what about those stuck in the middle? The working generation sandwiched between elderly relatives who seem to be living forever […]
When chatting with the Digital Generation their communication style can be abrupt. Not intentionally rude they are simply being ‘direct’. So when I showed a group the global statistics on living longer they immediately ‘got it’ – as a generation they will live significantly longer than their parents and grandparents – ‘so what?’ Well, while […]
A red letter day is defined as ‘any day of special significance’. The practice has Biblical roots with important days being written in red. It then extended to the Courts and Universities when the judiciary and scholars wore their dress robes on important days. In recent times this has been extended to include any day […]
During the recent election campaign debate Amber Rudd poked fun at Jeremy Corbin by suggesting that his policies were funded from a mystical ‘Magic Money Tree’. As it turns out she was far closer to the truth than she might imagine. Unlike us, governments do have access to a ‘magical money tree’ of sorts – […]