Jill was frustrated.  She wanted to find a way to spend time with each of her grown children and thought a family cruise was the answer.  She spent a lot of time researching and had a cruise all lined up, but after looking at costs and all the logistic of pulling 10 people together, she was having second thoughts.  She started this idea to make sure to spend time with each of her sons and daughters (and their kids) on a regular basis.  Family vacations sounded like a good idea, then the reality of being “all together for a week” and her kids’ limited budgets got in the way.  Since she an her husband were now retired, they saw how precious time was, but their retirement savings was also precious.

Thinking differently.  What Jill faced is common for a lot of Baby Boomers: how to stay connected to their kids, without going broke in the process.  At STPI, we ask people to broaden their choices, to go deeper, to understand what they REALLY want as an outcome from their decisions.  In Jill’s case, since she was a single mom for a long time before remarrying later in life, her kids were the center of her universe.  The idea that she might might lose that connection caused real fear in her>> Read More