Preparing for retirement
Retire from the job, not from the people
A career hands you people every day. Colleagues, clients, the regulars at the Tuesday meeting. Retirement gives you time, and quietly takes away the routine that kept all those relationships running.
Simmer replaces that routine with a small daily habit. It reminds you who you haven't spoken to in a while, helps you remember what's going on in their lives, and makes reaching out the easiest part of your day.
The calendar empties. Your circle shouldn't.
The hardest part of retiring is rarely the work. It's the daily contact that goes with it. Staying close to former colleagues, old friends, and far-flung family takes intention now, where it used to happen on its own.
The good news is that you finally have room in your day for real conversations. A few minutes is plenty, and Simmer helps you spend them on the right people.
How Simmer helps in this next chapter
How Simmer works
A small daily habit
You set the goal: reach out to one to five people a day. Easy to understand, hard to keep up on your own. Simmer holds you to it, a few minutes at a time.
A gentle nudge
Each morning Simmer nudges you toward the goal you chose: follow through, follow up, or step up.
One person, with context
Open Simmer and it will remind you about someone from your contacts, context to jog your memory, suggested conversation starters, and topics you could reflect on.
Reach out, or skip
Decide to reach out to that person, or swipe to skip them for now and try someone else. It can be enough to just say, "Hi."
Pause and jot it down
After you connect, Simmer helps you remember to pause for a moment and capture notes, and set follow up topics with due dates.
Reach your goal for the day
Keep going, connect or skip forward until you hit your outreach goal for the day.
Everyone stays close
Show up like this, one small touch at a time, and your whole network stays warm.
A gentle nudge
Each morning Simmer nudges you toward the goal you chose: follow through, follow up, or step up.
One person, with context
Open Simmer and it will remind you about someone from your contacts, context to jog your memory, suggested conversation starters, and topics you could reflect on.
Reach out, or skip
Decide to reach out to that person, or swipe to skip them for now and try someone else. It can be enough to just say, "Hi."
Pause and jot it down
After you connect, Simmer helps you remember to pause for a moment and capture notes, and set follow up topics with due dates.
Reach your goal for the day
Keep going, connect or skip forward until you hit your outreach goal for the day.
Everyone stays close
Show up like this, one small touch at a time, and your whole network stays warm.