Manual № 88 · Retirement and the years after work
The Open Calendar
The manual for retirement and the years after work.
The date is the easy part. The Tuesdays after it are the work.
12 modules · for someone within a few years either side of retiring, whether the leaving is planned, early, or pushed
- 01A Transition, Not a Date
- 02When It Is More Than Adjustment
- 03What Work Was Quietly Doing
- 04If It Was Not Your Choice
- 05Who You Are Without the Title
- 06The First Year, Honestly
- 07Designing a Week
- 08Something That Needs You
- 09Friends After the Colleagues
- 10Two People, One House
- 11Body, Sleep, and the Fear of Running Out
- 12The Plan on One Page
Two editions
The manual, or the manual and the toolkit.
Standard edition
The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.
Elite edition · most complete
Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how good the support actually is, to use alongside this program rather than instead of it. With original diagrams throughout.
Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.
Inside The Toolkit
- 01The Latent Functions Audit
- 02Anchor Points
- 03Mastery, Pleasure, Connection
- 04ABCDE, Worked Through
- 05Accepting What Happened Without Approving It
- 06Opposite Action for the Pull to Stay In
- 07Values Before Activities
- 08The Continuity Map
- 09What Do You Want, and Is It Working?
- 10The Small Trial
- 11If-Then Plans
- 12The Scaling Question
- 13The Kitchen Table Conversation
- 14Worry Time for the Money Fear
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