How to Love Your Retirement: The Guide to the Best of Your Life

by Barbara Waxman (Editor)

Overview

Retirment years can be full of fun and interesting times if properly prepared for, and How to Love Your Retirement is packed with helpful, entertaining stories and lots of real-life advice from hundreds of retirees who are making the most of their golden years. These inspirational, funny, and educational stories cover picking the best time to retire, learning to live with one's spouse 24/7, returning to school, traveling, staying fit, being the best grandparent in the world, staying busy and productive, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933512891
Publisher:	Hundreds of Heads Books
Publication date:	12/14/2010
Series:	Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 21st-Century Retirement: The Third Stage 1

Chapter 2 The "R" Word: Feelings and Attitudes 23

Chapter 3 The Possible Dream: Living with Purpose and Passion 51

Chapter 4 Not for Sissies: Physical Health and Fitness 91

Chapter 5 Not for Sissies II: Creativity and Brain Fitness 117

Chapter 6 On the Road: Why Stay Home? 133

Chapter 7 Making the Money Work: Finance 159

Chapter 8 Love, Life, Friends: Relationships 185

Chapter 9 Just Click: Technology 219

Chapter 10 More Wisdom: Lessons Learned 235

Appendix: The Coach's Toolbox: Worksheets, Exercises and Information for Writing the Next Chapter of Your Life 251

Editorial Reviews

"Recommended"
—GRAND Magazine, the magazine for Today's Grandparents and their Grandkids

[How to Love Your Retirement] provides snippets of advice from scores of people on how they have coped and thrived in retirement.
—Newsday (New York)

How to Love Your Retirement, from publisher Hundreds of Heads, includes contributions from expert sources in finance, health, career, psychology, education and business, providing guidance on some of the challenging questions we'll need to answer:

· How do you know if you're ready to retire?

· How will your relationship with your spouse change?

· What will you do with all that free time?

· Will you get stronger and more fit, or turn into a couch potato?
—Family Goes Strong (NBCU)

“How to Love Your Retirement,” .... outlines core tips for helping people prepare for the next stage in their lives....[it] contains 10 chapters that offer wisdom on topics such as feelings and attitudes about retirement, creativity and brain fitness, finances and technology. There are also exercises that readers can complete to gain further insight, and then perhaps apply the lessons to their own lives.
—J Weekly

As is the premise of the Hundreds of Heads’ Survival Guide series, the best way to answer these questions and many more is to mine the hundreds of heads of real people’s hard-earned wisdom and advice. Barbara and her team conducted hundreds of interviews with boomers and older adults, collecting the best advice from them on a range of topics relating to aging and retirement. In addition to the hundreds of regular people interviewed, contributors include experts in the areas of finance, health, career, psychology, education and business.

The book also includes coaching exercises readers can complete to gain further insight into how to apply lessons to their own lives. This ensures readers are asking themselves the right questions and taking all the steps to achieve their retirement-based goals. The book serves both as a quick reference guide and as a workbook.
—WatchBoom.com

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