by Hilary Henderson | Feb 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
This weekend I celebrated 50 years since my final year in High school. It was a major milestone, half a century. I was privileged to go to a private school and back then our classes were small, so to gather 16 out of a class of 27, where 2 have already passed on, was...
by Hilary Henderson | Feb 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today I want to focus on a quote that stood out for me when I was reading a new book by the Retirement Coaches Association : “Until today, I thought my unhappiness with retirement was my fault! But what really hit me here was realizing that I’ve never before been...
by Hilary Henderson | Jan 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
It seems the whole world is now geared up and tackling 2020, so perhaps I should too. Somehow because I work for myself I never really take a total break, but it was lovely to have a break from writing, both this blog and the one I do for the 60&me website. Many...
by Hilary Henderson | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
As we approach the end of the year some of you may be heading towards your last few days or weeks of employment. For some others, the date for retirement is another calendar year closer. That is why I want to share with you an article I stumbled across this week on...
by Hilary Henderson | Nov 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
This week I would like to put a new idea to you: Co-housing. Here in South Africa the concept of retirement villages began I think, around the 1980s and has now become a major industry. These are whole villages where senior citizens live in their own houses or...
by Hilary Henderson | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Along with the meditation and mindfulness, the term gratitude is very much in fashion right now. Recently a friend lent me a copy of the ‘The Book of Joy’ which documents the week that the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu spent together in northern India. This...
by Hilary Henderson | Oct 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have written before on the topic of Elder Orphans, but today I would like to take this a step further and include anyone who is ageing alone. This spreads the net wider to include widows and widowers, divorcees as well as those growing older with their children and...
by Hilary Henderson | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
How is your German? One of my blogs on the 60&Me has been translated for a Swiss non-profit called Neustarter (we are a non-profit-making foundation called “Neustarter”, established in Zurich, Switzerland. We support people who are more than 49, 64,...
by Hilary Henderson | Oct 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have recently joined the Retirement Coaches Association, based in the US. But that is not the focus of this blog, more an introduction, as the RCA held its annual conference a couple of weeks back and there is interesting information stemming from the gathering. ...
by Hilary Henderson | Sep 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
For most of us, the life we lived when we were working is far removed from the life we plan to live when we retire. The most obvious is that even if we do continue to work, we will be working in a different format, maybe even a different industry. Some of us become...
