Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Successfully Retire to the New Adulthood

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Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Successfully Retire to the New Adulthood Pub. Date: 5/12/2008 Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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Overview

How do I know if I am financially secure?

What does it take to make friends outside of work?

What is my role in taking care of my health?

I am not really sure what I want as I move beyond work. How can I find out?

Will I be lonely?

Is this really the beginning of the end?

Can I do this?

Beyond Work

Most baby boomers will do retirement well, but many may struggle. For some accomplished people, putting a successful career behind them to enter retirement can be a daunting prospect to face. Others worry, sometimes unnecessarily, about financial and health concerns. And for some, the huge blank canvas of a looming life of leisure is more anxiety-provoking than it is exciting. Whatever you think about retirement, it is not always easy and you are not foolish for worrying about it.

In fact, retirement is a new phase of life—the new adulthood—with its own challenges and rewards. Beyond Work shows you how you can make the transition successfully, face this new challenge head-on, and thrive in retirement. Beyond Work:

Goes beyond the financial dimension that tells you if you can retire to consider the three additional challenges that speak to how to retire.
Explains the key to a successful retirement: the four domains that provide structure during your new adulthood—financial, physical, social, and personal.
Features successful retirement stories from people who are thriving beyond work, as well as advice from experts and practical tools for making your own transition.
Helps you to discover what it means to live life on your terms, and what those terms can be.
Offers a framework for understanding the choices facing you in retirement, for actively making and renewing decisions about what’s best for you, and for making each decision a wise one.
Shows you how to leave traditional work behind and find new meaning and success in the life you plan beyond it.

Retirement is a big deal, but it is far from the withdrawal from the world that many of us dread. Beyond Work demystifies retirement and builds excitement for retiring while tranquilizing the worry about your new adult life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470840948
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/12/2008
Edition number: 1
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 701,643
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Like most career-focused people Dr. Bill Roiter had not really thought much about retirement until something happened: many of his clients began to ask him his ideas on the subject. Over the past 30 years Bill, a psychologist, has used his knowledge of human behavior to consult to organizations and to coach their executives. Many of the people Bill has known and worked with over the years are retiring or are contemplating it. Many have asked Bill what they should know and think about as they move beyond their work-focused lives. Then four years ago Bill’s wife retired from her corporate job and focused Bill’s attention on the personal, as well as the professional, aspects of this dynamic part of life. This book is the result of Bill’s work with these accomplished people.

Bill maintains his own executive coaching practice in the Boston area. In 2004, he coauthored a book with Margaret Butteriss that identified and described Corporate MVPs (Wiley, 2004). He has also owned and sold two businesses, been a vice president for sales and marketing of a publicly traded company, and helped found a venture capital-backed electronic communications company. For the past 12 years Bill has focused his work on coaching executives as they transition to their next challenge.

Bill’s professional training includes a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree from Boston University and post-doctoral training and teaching at Harvard University. Bill also teaches executive coaching to professionals looking to develop this expertise.

Preface     ix
Life Beyond Work     1
As Accomplished People Retire     3
Retirement Is a Big Deal     3
Will My Retirement Work?     5
What Is in the Book     6
What It Means to Be Accomplished     7
Your Retirement Is Your Choice     8
Delusions of Age     12
Find What Works for You     13
The Boomer Generation     14
The Pace of Invention and Change     14
You and the Pace of Invention and Change: 1945 to the Present     16
Boomers' Future Retirements-The Impact of Our Generation's Experience     18
Formative Years: Groups within the Boomer Generation     19
The Boomer Generation in 2030     22
Summary     24
Decades of Change     25
Life in Three Eras     26
What Have You Gained with Age?     27
Living a Meaningful Life: A Matter of Choice     28
The Three Domains of Life     30
The New Adulthood's Four Domains     44
Meeting Our Needs     45
A Holistic Approach to a New and Better Adulthood     46
Summary     46
The New Adulthood: Life on Your Terms     47
What Are You After You Retire?     48
Defining Your Terms for the Life You Want to Live     48
The Best Years of Your Life     51
Summary     52
The New Adulthood     53
The Financial Domain     55
An Age-Old Question     57
What Are Others Doing?     59
Denial: I Don't Believe it!     61
Face Facts and Create a Plan     63
Seek Sound Financial Advice     68
Finding a Good Financial Advisor     70
Mistrust     76
Understanding Financial Advisor Credentials     78
The Financial Advisor Selection Checklist     80
The Financial Management Team     81
Working with Your Financial Advisor     87
Are You Capable of Managing Your Financial Domain?     89
Summary     89
The Physical Domain     91
Challenging Our Assumptions about Aging     92
Aging Versus Old Age     94
Improve Your Health by Managing Your Expectations     95
Increase Your Life Satisfaction by Managing Your Expectations     99
Defining Subjective Well-Being     100
Is Health a Wild Card or Manageable?      102
Managing Your Health     104
Health Insurance in the United States     106
Feeling Old Versus Feeling Our Age     108
The Facts on Aging     111
The "You Have ..." Moment     112
The Risks of Aging     115
Looking Ahead: Remarkable Trends in Health Care     120
Summary     124
The Social Domain     127
The Role of Your Social Domain     128
Social Support Correlates with a Healthy and Long Life!     130
What Is a Social Network?     132
First Make a Friend, Then Build a Friendship     140
The Benefit of Friends     143
If Making Friends Is Not Your Style     144
Moving Beyond Work     147
The Internet Social Network     150
Isolated and in Pain     152
Summary     153
The Personal Domain     155
The Uniqueness of Self     156
How Would You Describe Your Self?     157
Personality     158
Character: Personality Writ Large     163
The Power of Self-Awareness     165
Self-Awareness and the Changing World     167
Increase Your Luck     170
A Dose of Realism     171
Know Thyself     176
Self-Knowledge and the New Adult     179
Being Mortal     180
The Power of Our Spiritual Mind     182
The Role of Religious Traditions     185
Today's Unique Opportunity     190
It's All in Your Attitude     190
Summary     193
Reaping the Rewards     195
Life Beyond Work: Familiar Territory     196
Increasing Opportunities     197
New Adulthood's Opportunities within the Four Domains     198
Are You Living the Good Life?     199
What Really Happens Beyond Work?     203
Happiness: The Measure of Life Beyond Work     207
The Opposite of Happy     209
The Benefits of Being Happy     211
Building Happiness     212
Beyond this Book     217
Typical Budget Categories     219
Checklist for Interviewing a Financial Planner     221
Ten Questions to Ask to Find the Best Doctor for You     227
How Good Are You at Being Social?     229
Index     233
About The Author     244

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