LifeOptions Program

Our Corporate/Organizational Group Program

The LifeOptions Program is an educational experience that offers participants a clear, concise, succinct, yet comprehensive overview of their current ideas about, and planning for, their ultimate retirement lifestyle.

The LifeOptions Program does not assume any particular type of retirement lifestyle, instead it serves participants by helping them identify and plan for new ways of living what can only be termed their “dream,” whatever that may be.

The LifeOptions Program provides a personal, practical, and relevant self-portrait of the overall lifestyle needs of persons who are contemplating a transition from their current full time work into some other lifestyle that they themselves can be fully invested in designing.

We call The LifeOptions Program our "corporate/organizational group program" because it brings vivid color to retirement lifestyle issues that are easily presented and discussed in groups or in classroom settings. The LifeOptions Program is factual and tangible, it is life structure oriented and non-academic, it offers the Retirement Coach a smorgasbord of sharply defined and easily understood concepts, and a broad variety of coaching formats.

The LifeOptions Program is designed to assist participants by giving them the most accurate personal data possible so participants can make the best decisions and formulate the most life-giving plans.

The LifeOptions Program has four components :

What Color is Your Retirement?

1) The LifeOptions Profile is a 99-item educational assessment instrument that covers 20 separate lifestyle and attitudinal factors that are arranged into six sub-sections, or what are called “life arenas.” The Profile is taken over the internet and generates a 10 page personal document that gives short descriptions of each of the 20 factors that are applicable to that particular participant.

The purpose of the LifeOptions profile is to give the participant a clear, well-ordered, and scaled overview of how he/she compares to others in a similar life circumstance regarding their personal growth toward the life transition we call retirement.

2) What Color is Your Retirement: the LifeOptions guidebook to discover, plan and live your retirement dream. This 170-page, proprietary book is written by Richard P. Johnson, Ph.D., and used exclusively as an adjunct, supportive document for the LifeOptions Profile; it cannot be purchased separately from the LifeOptions Profile.

What Color is Your Retirement is divided into the same 20 factors organized into the same six sections, or life arenas, and in the same order as is the LifeOptions Profile. The book is intended to involve the participant deeper into the content of the LifeOptions Program so as to maximize her/his educational and motivational goals.

3) Lifestyle Insight & Involvement Exercises Each of the 20 factors has two “Insight & Involvement Exercises” that serve to further personalize and deepen the participant’s understanding and attitudinal penetration of the content of that factor.

4) Powerful questions for specific goal setting and
“next steps.” An integral part of the LifeOptions Program is the list of four “powerful questions” included for each of the 20 factors covered in the program. Coaches use powerful questions to help our clients discover their own truth. Powerful questions can help clients become very focused on what are their "next action steps." The coach is never at a loss as to what to do next and how to do it.