How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees
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How to Love Your Retirement shows the baby-boom generation how to plan for, and succeed at, this statge of life, whether relaxation, travel, education, or even a new occupation is the goal. Packed with helpful, entertaining stories and real-life advice from hundreds of retirees who are making the most of their post-work lives, this honest and useful guide covers such topics as how to pick the best time to retire; learning to live with a spouse 24/7; staying fit; starting fresh in business, love, and family; traveling; going back to school; and more…. More >>
How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees
A friend of mine is now at retirement age, but she is hesitant to retire because she doesn’t know what she wants to do with herself when she stops working. To give her some ideas, I bought this book despite the criticism by a number of the other reviewers. My logic was that reading short blurbs about what others were doing with their retirement might give my friend some ideas.
My friend read through some of this book and then never picked it up again. She found it boring and lacking in the insight that I had hoped it would deliver. However, my friend really liked How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire by Stan Hinden. No, the Hinden book didn’t give her any new ideas about what to do with herself, but it did help her to plan for the day that she does retire. If you are choosing between the books, based on my experience, I would recommend the Hinden book.
This book is essentially a sampling of retirees’ random thoughts. It lacks discrimination as to their quality or relevance. It offers no guiding themes although in a misguided attempt at balance it presents pairs of contradictory opinions.
On the plus side, the book made decent fuel, and helped to get some damp firewood going in my wood stove.
Bolles’ book and Zelinski’s book are much more useful.
I am on the eve of starting the retirement phase of my life and decided to get this book for inspiration. It turned out to be a collection of comments from people in answer to questions posed by the authors. Overall I felt it was worth the read. Most comments were things I considered before setting the date. Yet other comments brought out details I haven’t thought of yet. This is not a “planning” manual but simply things to consider when leaving the workplace to embark on retirement….
Little to no value to this! I was looking for a smart guide to help my Dad, who has just retired. This is a real snore, with vague, generalized advice, and nothing you don’t already know. I bought two others here that are well-rated but also look not nearly good enough. Is this a field filled with bad books?
This lively book will rev up the creative energy of anyone who wants to do “something else.” The best of the “How to Survive” series, it’s grounded by interviews with hundreds of folks who probably could not qualify to author a “How I Failed Retirement” article like the one published in “Fortune” magazine by former Chrysler CEO, Lee Iacocca. I can attest that “How to Love Your Retirement” can kick-start creation of an exciting retirement plan. I pressed this book on my attorney husband, 72, who had expected to follow in his father’s footsteps and maintain a vigorous practice until he was 93. Seriously. Nonetheless, he has been quietly musing about retiring from complex criminal defense to do “something else.” Major hurdle? Could he find anything equally engaging that did not include solving other people’s very big problems. He found “How to Love Your Retirement” fun to read and loaded with solid, specific information, ideas and inspired advice, including timing, new work, money, travel, domestic adjustments, moving, new activities, and staying in shape. This book energized and focused his plans for himself– and us.