Don't Retire, REWIRE!, 3E: 5 Steps to Fulfilling Work That Fuels Your Passion, Suits Your Personality, and

by Jeri Sedlar, Rick Miners

Overview

It's time to rethink retirement!

Working past "normal" retirement age is one of the fastest growing trends in America. Today's Boomers don't want to slow down, and many of them can't afford to! They want meaningful work that fuels their passion, suits their personality, and fills their pockets. In a word, they want to REWIRE! 

Don't Retire, REWIRE! Third Edition helps those new to retirement, and those approaching it, channel their energy and experience into new possibilities that can be financially and personally rewarding—whether it's a part-time job, volunteer work, or even a next career. 

Inside you'll find lots of practical advice and plenty of real-life stories from retirees who have successfully made the transition. You'll discover the motivational drivers you never knew you had, then you'll learn how to use them to achieve a fun, purposeful, and financially-sound future—at work or at play!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465473547
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	974,786
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners, husband and wife, have 25+ years of experience working in the areas of personal and professional transition. Their backgrounds include executive search and outplacement, plus Jeri is the former Editor at Large of Working Woman magazine and currently Senior Advisor to The Conference Board on the Mature Workforce. Rick is the cofounder of Flexcorp Systems, a business process outsourcing company, which was named by INC. magazine as one of the fastest-growing 500 privately held companies in the US in 2005. The company, which was number 119, was sold in 2006.

Table of Contents

Step I Seeing the Opportunity: Retiring Is a Going From, and Rewiring Is a Going To 1

1 Flunking Retirement 3

2 Rewiring^™ Your Energy 37

Step II Identifying Your Drivers 53

3 Your Drivers: Why You Really Work 55

4 Discovering Your Hidden Drivers 65

Step III Linking the Drivers to Your Activities 89

5 What's Going to Go Away? 91

6 What Are You Doing with Your Free Time? 115

Step IV Creating Your Rewired Vision 123

7 Dreams, Interests, and Discoveries 125

8 Own Your Accomplishments 145

9 Rethinking the World of Work 171

10 Imagine the Possibilities 185

Step V Putting Your Action Plan in Motion 199

11 Possibilities in Action 201

12 Perspectives and Realities 219

13 Making It Happen 233

Appendixes

A Values 247

B Online Resources for Retirement^® 249

C The Eighty-Five Drivers 253

Notes 257

Index 261