Syndicated Story on Tonya Hinch

New Yorker Tonya Hinch, 41, formerly a Fortune 500 executive, is now a "gainfully unemployed retiree" who will proudly tell you that she “retired backwards." In fact, retiring backwards is what Hinch strongly urges everyone to do. And, she in fact teaches people how to do just that in her popular "Retiring Backwards" workshops, subtitled "Six Strategies to Becoming Gainfully Unemployed." (www.retiringbackwards.com)

Hinch herself, growing up in the backwater town of Crossville, Tennessee, population 2,000, decided as a young girl that she wanted to live in New York and enjoy the life of a top corporate executive. To realize her ambitious dreams, she then methodically set out to position herself to be able to fulfill those dreams. As she explains, "Vision plus action is the formula. You need both. Most people have just one or the other." After enrolling a mentor in college, she went for the corporate look—“which meant I could not wear my frilly Southern dresses, or go around with the Southern belle look, the blue eye shadow and big hair." She also decided she wanted to retire at age 40. "This did not mean I would never make money again. It did mean I would have more freedom and control to follow my passions, and to create a second career doing something I loved. These seminars, for me, are what I was meant to do." Thus far, hundreds of workshop graduates are enjoying a similar ability to create and realize their dreams.

Says Hinch: "Retiring Backwards begins at the crossroads of 'What Will I Do With the Rest of My Life.' It doesn't matter when you ask that question—asking it is the first step to making a major move towards retirement.”

Retiring we understand...but why Backwards?

Over the years, Tonya Hinch has discovered that if you begin with a vision, you will achieve it. The alternative, no clear vision, results in detours and often, just plain getting lost. After all, how can you get where you going when you don't know where that is? As she explains, "retiring backwards" means deciding beforehand on a destination, then making yourself a roadmap to show you how to get there. The destination is who you want to position yourself to be, and by when. The Six Strategies she designed allow people to construct their personal roadmaps for retiring backwards.

Sound easy? Well, we know nothing is. But Tonya Hinch has shown many people, who like herself are now Gainfully Unemployed, how to do what she did. They too were able to stop "working" earlier than most, and live the life of their dreams.

Tonya Hinch's Six Strategies for Becoming Gainfully Unemployed are:

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Assess and improve your physical and emotional WELL-BEING.

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Decide how you will have FUN.

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Determine which PEOPLE will be in your “new" life.

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Choose where you will LIVE as a retiree.

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Consider whether or not you will continue to "WORK."

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Plan how you will FINANCE your retirement.

Through her new company, Life Planning Unlimited, Hinch also offers half-day Intensives on each of these strategic topics, including Relationships, Financial Health, and Physical Well-Being. She also offers individual coaching sessions for people considering creative retirement—at any age.

For more information on how you can retire backwards, and case studies, visit www.retiringbackwards.com.