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Your Life Plan Part 3: Time to Take Action

Your Encore Life - December 10, 2020 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
As we are coming to the end of 2020 and look forward to 2021, we are going to offer encore episodes about the importance of and steps in writing a life plan.  2020 certainly didn’t turn out like the vision we may have had for it, but we have a lot to look forward to.  This past year has dealt a ...

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Your Life Plan Part 2 049

Your Encore Life - November 26, 2020 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
As we are coming to the end of 2020 and look forward to 2021, we are going to offer encore episodes about the importance of and steps in writing a life plan.  2020 certainly didn’t turn out like the vision we may have had for it, but we have a lot to look forward to.  This past year has dealt a ...

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Your Life Plan Part 1 048

Your Encore Life - November 12, 2020 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
As we are coming to the end of 2020 and look forward to 2021, we are going to offer encore episodes about the importance of and steps in writing a life plan.  2020 certainly didn’t turn out like the vision we may have had for it, but we have a lot to look forward to.  This past year has dealt a ...

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Making Connections: Forming Lasting Relationships 047

Your Encore Life - October 27, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 47 of “Your Encore Life”. When thinking about this topic of the importance of connecting with others, it came to me that one of the most popular series I have done was about Finding Joy in episodes 16 - 23, and one of those episodes has great information about the importance o...

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Making Connections 046

Your Encore Life - October 13, 2020 00:20 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
This is Craig Coile, and thank you for joining me for this episode of Your Encore Life.  Today in episode 46 we are going to continue our discussion from last time on the importance of being in connection. This can be particularly important if you are retired or nearing retirement.  We typically...

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Refire, Rewire, and Get Connected 045

Your Encore Life - September 29, 2020 06:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
This is Craig Coile, and thank you for joining me today. Do you feel you need a reboot?  That is what we are doing to talk about today on episode 45 of Your Encore Life. I have been going through a process developed by Teresa McCloy called “The Realife Process” with my coach Mark Ross.  I had ...

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The One Next Right Thing We Must Do - 044

Your Encore Life - September 14, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 44 of your Encore Life.  Today the title of this special podcast episode is “The One Next Right Thing We Must Do”, tagging onto last weeks episode 43.  This will be a brief episode that is the most important message I have ever shared.  It is that we all need to come together ...

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What's Next? 043

Your Encore Life - September 08, 2020 06:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 43 of your Encore Life.  Today the title of the podcast is “What’s Next”.  This will be a brief episode about some things that I have observed and heard others asking, including myself.   When we began 2020 many of us may have had a fairly clear sense of what was next for ...

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What Makes You, You? 042

Your Encore Life - August 25, 2020 06:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 42 of Your Encore Life. In this episode I will continue our discussion from the last few weeks on self assessments and how they can help at any stage of life, especially in your encore.  I will talk a bit about my personal Cliftonstrengths results and a bit about the Enneagram...

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Know Your Strengths in Your Encore 041

Your Encore Life - August 11, 2020 06:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 41 of Your Encore Life. In this episode we will be talking specifically about the CliftonStrengths Assessment and why it has value for those of us entering into or already in our Encore Life.  As you may recall episodes 39 and 40 were both discussing the value of maximizing yo...

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Maximize Your Strengths, Minimize Your Weaknesses 040

Your Encore Life - July 28, 2020 06:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 40 of Your Encore Life.  Today we will be expanding on the introduction to strengths that I began in our last episode. We will define what strengths are, talk about the five characteristics of strengths, and talk about an article by Brent O’ Bannon about managing your weakness...

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Develop Your Talents Into Strengths 039

Your Encore Life - July 14, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
The Animal School: A Fable by George Reavis Once upon a time, the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world” so they organized a school. They had adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to...

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Life Plan 2020...What Happened? 038

Your Encore Life - June 30, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 38 of Your Encore Life.  As promised in our last episode, I am going to review my life plan last updated in January of 2020.  I am going to be brutally honest about what I have and haven’t moved on.  If you need to find out more about creating a life plan, listen to episodes 1...

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Reflections 037

Your Encore Life - June 16, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Believe in people Value people Unconditionally love people   “We all have a choice what we put before us and what we put behind us”.  Put behind you devaluing people. Focus on valuing people.  The core issue to the situation we are in now is that we don’t value people.  We lack respect, ...

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What’s Next? It’s a Process……Part 4 With Guest Host Mark Ross 036

Your Encore Life - June 09, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 36 of Your Encore Life.  This has been such a great series so far as our guest host Mark Ross has discussed “What’s Next? It’s a Process”. 1. Reflecting on Early Interests: Episode 33 2. Finding Your Direction: Episode 34 3. Experimenting with Possibilities: Last weeks e...

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What’s Next? It’s a Process………Part 3 035

Your Encore Life - June 02, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 35 of Your Encore Life.  What fantastic value Mark Ross has provided as guest host during episode 33 and 34, and I couldn’t be more excited about this episode of the series where the theme has been “What’s Next? It’s a Process”.   1. Reflecting on Early Interests: Episode ...

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What's Next? It's a Process.... with Guest Host Mark Ross Part 2- 034

Your Encore Life - May 26, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 34 of Your Encore Life.  After last week’s great episode with guest host  Mark Ross, we look forward to the continuation of this series. Today he will be talking about finding your direction. The theme of these episodes are “What’s Next? It’s a Process”.   1. Reflecting on...

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What's Next? It's a Process.... With Guest Host Mark Ross 033

Your Encore Life - May 19, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 33 of Your Encore Life.  We have a very special treat for you in this episode and the next few.  Mark Ross, my coach, peer, and friend will be your guest host.  As you may remember from and interview I did with Mark in episodes 5, 6, and 7, he is what I consider one of the top...

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Cop to Clergy: When God’s Plans Don’t Match Our Expectations 032

Your Encore Life - May 12, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Pastor Al Squitieri’s life journey had many twists and turns as he began his law enforcement career that spanned 25 years until the point of becoming the lead pastor.  In episode 30 we heard about the beginning of his career with a sheriff’s department up until the point at which he retired from...

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Cop to Clergy: When God’s plans don’t match our expectations 031

Your Encore Life - May 05, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Pastor Al Squitieri’s life journey had many twists and turns as he began his law enforcement career that spanned 25 years until the point of becoming the lead pastor.  Last week we heard about the beginning of his career with a sheriff’s department up until the point at which he retired from tha...

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Cop to Clergy: When God’s Plans Don’t Match Our Expectations 030

Your Encore Life - April 28, 2020 06:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Today for episode 30 we have a gentleman that I was hoping to be able to interview since I first started thinking about doing a podcast.  I met Al Squitieri back in 2008 at our church where he had begun serving as the men’s ministry pastor.  From the very beginning it was clear that Pastor Al wa...

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4 Couples, 4 Views on Retirement and Their Encore Life Part 4: Group Discussion 029

Your Encore Life - April 21, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this final episode of this series, we will be having an open discussion as a group.  You have heard 3 different couples talk about their future or current retirement and their hopes for living their encore life.  In this open discussion between the eight of us, you will hear some of this: G...

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4 Couples, 4 Views on Retirement and Their Encore Life Part 3 028

Your Encore Life - April 14, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Due to this unprecedented pandemic all of us are experiencing 2020 very differently from what our 2020 vision may have been.  Many have had their careers, retirements, travel plans, and just day to day living disrupted that may cause us to lose our vision for what we want in our encore life, or ...

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4 Couples, 4 Views on Retirement and Their Encore Life Part 2: Bill and Sharon 027

Your Encore Life - April 07, 2020 06:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
For the next few episodes we will be playing and discussing an open conversation that 3 other couples along with my wife and I had while getting together in our North Carolina homes.  The discussion was around the difficulties and joys of retirement and what each of the individuals and couples h...

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4 Couples, 4 Views on Retirement and Their Encore Life Part 1 026

Your Encore Life - March 31, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
I hope that you have been able to take something from episodes 24 and 25 and respond in such a way that during this time of uncertainty you have been able to spend time thinking about what this makes possible and how can I respond in uncertain times to move forward, to learn a new appreciation f...

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How Will I Respond? What Does This Make Possible? 025

Your Encore Life - March 24, 2020 06:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
The COVID 19, or Coronavirus pandemic has led to what seems like an avalanche of events and change that continues to evolve hour by hour, none of which we have control over.  We discussed the formula E+R=O in episode 7. Go back and listen to that episode if you want to hear specifically about E+...

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Fear: When is it Healthy or Unhealthy? -24

Your Encore Life - March 17, 2020 06:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Google says fear can be defined as, “an unpleasant, often strong emotion caused by expectation or awareness of danger.” Zig Ziglar has said that there is an acrostic for FEAR which is False Evidence Appearing Real. It is not my intention to make this podcast another discussion about COVID19,...

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Finding Lasting Joy: Relationships 023

Your Encore Life - March 10, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 23 of “Your Encore Life”.  In this episode we are continuing our series on finding joy. The main source I have been using for this series is the book “The Joy Model” by Jeff Spadafora.  In episode 17 we talked about what the joy model is, which is based on “Being” and “Doing” ...

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Finding Joy Part 7: Engagement 022

Your Encore Life - March 03, 2020 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 22 of “Your Encore Life”.  In this episode we are continuing our series on finding joy. The main source I have been using for this series is the book “The Joy Model” by Jeff Spadafora.  In episode 17 we talked about what the joy model is, which is based on “Being” and “Doing” ...

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Finding Lasting Joy Part 6 Treasure 021

Your Encore Life - February 25, 2020 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Welcome to episode 21 of “Your Encore Life”.  In this episode we are continuing our series on finding joy. The main source I have been using for this series is the book “The Joy Model” by Jeff Spadafora.  In episode 17 we talked about what the joy model is, which is based on “Being” and “Doing” ...

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