Several people I have been talking to lately insist that the post-career years are an excellent time to reinvent oneself. Retirement coach Karen Midyet discussed reinvention in a podcast interview we had earlier this month. Paul Long also made a strong case for reinvention in this week’s podcast.
Reinvention may sound hard and complicated. It smacks of a laboratory or a complex engineering project. So I won’t use that word. Instead, I’ll talk about the pivot. It may help to think of it as a dance, like one of those new dances that bubbled up every other week in the early 1960s, a minute before the Beatles. (Here’s a soundtrack, courtesy of Little Eva.)