The What Now?Workshop

Free self-check

Are you emotionally ready to retire?

Most people spend decades preparing for retirement financially. Almost nobody prepares for the questions that arrive afterwards. Ten questions, two minutes, and an honest read on the five areas that unsettle people most — identity, routine, purpose, life at home and connection.

An empty wooden chair beside a sunlit window, with a notebook and reading glasses on the sill
  1. 01I can describe who I am without mentioning my job, title or career.
  2. 02I have commitments in my week that other people expect me at.
  3. 03There are places where my experience is still genuinely needed.
  4. 04The people I live with and I have openly agreed what time together and apart looks like.
  5. 05I have friends I see regularly who have nothing to do with work.
  6. 06When someone asks what I do now, I answer comfortably.
  7. 07I know roughly what a good ordinary Tuesday looks like for me.
  8. 08I feel useful most weeks, not just busy.
  9. 09I have somewhere of my own to go when I need space at home.
  10. 10I belong to something that meets again and again — a group, class, club or roster.

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