- John Maxwell
"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional".
Your Score is......Now What?
Ready to Retire
🚪 80–100 Let's Go!
This isn't exhaustion talking. The signals here point to something more fundamental — a genuine shift in how you relate to work, identity, and what you want your life to look like from here. You've built something. You've accomplished things. And somewhere along the way, the drive to keep building in the same direction quietly shifted into something else — a pull toward a different kind of life. That's not weakness. That's wisdom.
The risk for people in this quadrant isn't making the wrong decision. It's delaying the right one. Staying too long — out of habit, fear, financial anxiety, or because you haven't yet designed what comes next — can cost you years, health, and relationships you can't get back.
What you need now isn't more time at the office. It's a framework for designing what comes next with the same intentionality you brought to your career.
Your Next Edit: 30 Thought-Provoking Exercises to Help You Build the Retirement of Your Dreams was written for exactly this moment.
It won't tell you to golf more or volunteer at the library. It will help you think — seriously and specifically — about who you are outside of what you do, and what a genuinely fulfilling next chapter looks like for someone like you.
Next Step: Design your next chapter before you hand in your badge.
Burned Out - Don't Quit Yet
🔥 20-44 - Don’t Make a Permanent Decision
What you’re feeling is real. But it likely isn’t retirement readiness.
Your score suggests depletion — physical, emotional, or psychological. Burnout and retirement can feel identical in the body: tired, disengaged, done. The difference is that burnout is situational and often reversible.
Underneath the exhaustion, there may still be ambition, curiosity, and contribution left in you.
The danger here isn’t staying too long.
It’s leaving too fast.
Before you make a permanent decision:
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Address the stress directly
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Redesign what’s draining you
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Take a meaningful break
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Gather data on who you are when you’re rested
Retiring from exhaustion rarely leads to clarity.
Being burned out is dangerous place to be and casue you to make decisions you might regret. You have more options than you think.
Give yourself a moratorium on permanent decisions. Commit to no major career exits for 90 days while you address the burnout directly. Decisions made from depletion are rarely the right ones.
Consider working with Andrea in an Executive Coaching capacity to help you navigate the burnout and build your options.
Next Step: Work on recovery before reinvention.
Burned Out & Ready
⚖️ 65–79 - Your in the "Messy Middle"
This is the most nuanced result.
You are likely approaching a genuine life-stage shift — and you may also be carrying real fatigue.
Both things can be true.
The risk here is acting purely from burnout and arriving at retirement too depleted to build it well.
The other risk is ignoring the readiness signals and grinding through years that no longer fit.
This isn’t a moment for reaction.
It’s a moment for structured thinking.
You need to:
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Restore energy
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And design what’s next at the same time
This is the crossroads.
This is not a moment to make a quick decision. Now is the time to pause and dig into how you are really feeling and what is driving you before you make your next move.
You need to do two things simultaneously: address the burnout so you can think clearly, and do the retirement design work so that if and when you do step back, you're stepping toward something
Next Step: Begin designing your next chapter while stabilizing your current one.
Your Still Figuring It Out
😐 45–64 This Is Reflection, Not Crisis
You’re not in a danger zone — and you’re not in a rush. You’re questioning. Evaluating. Taking inventory.
That’s healthy.
You may feel moments of disengagement and moments of energy. You may feel pulled forward some days and perfectly content other days.
This is not confusion.
This is awareness emerging.
The professionals who navigate retirement well start here — before urgency forces their hand.
You're asking the right questions before the crisis hits — and that's exactly the right time to be asking them. You're not depleted enough to be in the danger zone, and you haven't hit a clear retirement inflection point yet.
Use this window of time to plan for your future. Working with an executive coach can help you clarify the right next steps to keep you moving forward.
Next Step: Start designing options before you need them.