That is Webster’s Dictionary definition. Perhaps you’ve been looking forward to retirement. Perhaps you have found yourself retired unexpectedly. Or perhaps you embraced retirement with excitement only to find after a year or too, you’re bored or unhappy, feeling irrelevant. Creating your best retirement may require skills you’ve never developed. My retirement story may ring a bell for you. In November, 2005, I retired for the second time. I didn’t plan to. As my fifth career, I had spent 10 years as a financial advisor for Ameriprise, helping people plan for retirement and managing their investments. But now I was up to my eyebrows in a major re-construction of my home in Florida due to termites and wood rot. And with my home open to the elements, we went through two hurricanes. I had also just wrapped up a successful campaign to keep a developer from building on the golf course behind my home. I was tired. One night I had a dream. I dreamt that a figure was asking me what I really wanted. I responded: “I want less responsibility and more adventures!” Two days later a very experienced financial advisor called to ask if I would be willing to sell my accounts to him. Two months later I was working with him on a part-time basis. Wonderful! Now I had time for travel, bridge games, more tennis, and painting lessons, time to just read a book or go for a swim.  I also went into partnership with my son to invest in properties in Vermont and Panama.  However, after two years I became restless. After 45 years of work, creating new careers and lifestyles, I was bored. It was time for me to create something new by helping others believe in their ability to create their ideal retirement.   I was able to see in my previous careers a pattern of helping people plan new things for their lives and communities.  And so I studied and became certified as a Retirement Coach.