How You Spend Your Time Builds Your Future, with Gordon Callum
About this episode
Gordon Callum discusses the importance of planning for retirement beyond financial aspects, focusing on identity, purpose, and time investment.
If you've spent decades building a business, leading organisations, or establishing yourself as the go-to expert in your field, retirement can feel like a cliff edge rather than a launchpad. Gordon Callum knows this territory well. He built Changing Point into a respected change management consultancy over 20 years, then realised - during the pandemic - that he'd done almost no thinking about his own retirement. That moment of clarity led to Retiring Point, and this conversation. This one isn't just for people looking ahead to retirement. The themes here - identity, purpose, planning for transitions, and how you invest your time - apply at every stage of a career. ✳️ The financial side of retirement gets all the attention, but the non-financial side is what determines whether it's fulfilling - identity, purpose, relationships, and the emotional rollercoaster of the transition all need the same planning rigour you'd apply to a business initiative. ✳️ Gordon's behavioural change cycle - awareness, thinking differently, application, and follow-through - transfers directly from change management to retirement planning, including building a rolling 12-month plan towards a clear vision…
People in this episode
Host: Bob Gentle
Guest: Gordon Callum
Topics covered
- retirement planning
- identity
- purpose
- career transitions
- time investment
- change management
Keywords
- retirement
- change management
- career
- planning
- identity
- purpose
- transitions
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Changing Point, Retiring Point
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