Retirement: Different by Design: Six Building Blocks Fundamentally Changing How Life After Work is Viewed, Planned For, and Lived
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Overview
Retirement is more than the absence of work—it’s a different way of life requiring new vision, new purpose, and new life perspectives. You see, retirement is too important to leave to luck or circumstance; we have to plan and make them happen—our way.
Your bridge to the “other side of work,” Retirement: Different By Design presents two dynamic and innovative templates for moving seamlessly into retirement and beyond—“Retirement’s Ages and Stages” and “Retirement’s Six Fundamental Building Blocks.” Providing practical strategies and answers, not more questions, each chapter delivers insights, tools, narratives, and models for making retirement the best years of the rest of our lives. And, it’s not always about the money.
Indeed, we all can live socially rich, emotionally balanced, intellectually nourishing, healthful, and physically active retirements no matter the size of our bank accounts—this is the new retirement reality that Retirement: Different By Design offers the soon-to-be and the already retired.
RETIREMENT’S SIX FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS
• Physical and Emotional Health and Well-Being
• Financial Security and Continuity
• Life Transition and Acceptance
• Intergenerational Life Engagement
• Intellectual and Physical Pursuits, Interests, and Activities
• Spirituality, Meaning, Family, and Legacy
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781578265565 |
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| Publisher: | Hatherleigh Press |
| Publication date: | 05/26/2015 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
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This book seeks to see retirement as a journey, not a destination—a road to travel, with lots of adventure along the way. First, we have to find that place they call retirement and, second, we have to figure out what we are going to do when we get there, what will be waiting for us when we arrive. Think of it as a personal journey of discovery and consider this book your travel guide to retirement.
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Table of Contents
Part I Am I Really Ready to Retire?
1 Our Real Wonder Years 3
Retirement: Prologue or Epilogue?
Stuff Happens
Doorway to the Rest of Our Lives
What This Book and Retirement Are About
What Retirement Is Not About
Welcome to "Our World"
With a Little Help from Our Friends
Of Course I'm Going to Retire
Retirement: Life's Only Mulligan
Real People, Real Lives
How to Use this Book
2 Reflections from the Other Side of Work 15
Eventually Most of Us Just Say "Enough!"
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Why Is That Speeding Train Headed for Us?
It's Not Just You Floating in a "Most Peculiar Way"
The Wanderer, Perhaps, Is Truly Lost
Retirement Is a Privilege, Not a Right
The Answer Please
Retirements Don't Happen, We Make Them Happen
The Meaning of Retirement According To…?
Retirement's Six Fundamental Building Blocks
Making Retirement the New Normal
And the Beat Goes On
Part II The Journey Begins
3 Recapturing Lost Dreams and Missed Opportunities 27
On Perspective
Congratulations, You Are Now on the Road to Retirement
Sometimes Life Just Gets in the Way
So Many Paths, So Many Choices, So Little Time
Let Your Life Narrative
Be Your Guide
Retirement Is Optional, Old Age and Death Are Not
We Are All Born Equally Helpless and Impressionable
It's Your Life Script, So Write a Happy Ending
We Are Responsible for Our Personal Destinies
Don't Forget the Past, Bring It Forward
Worrying, Wondering, and Wandering
We Don't All Retire-But We All Stop Working
Does This Sound Like You?
After the Party
4 As the World Turns 41
Things Change
Work Was Who We Were and What We Did
Most of Us Retire for the Right Reasons
What Are We Retiring To?
It's Not Always about the Money
What Did You Say?
Retirement Isn't for Sissies
Retirement's Should Do's
Retirement What Not to Do's
The Not So Exclusive Club
5 Retirement Is Not a Spectator Sport 51
Life's Pivot Point
Reality Bites
See and Be Seen
Shaping Our Personal Retirement Destinies
Retirement Isn't about Dreaming, It's about Doing
Retirement: Make It Personal
Make Optimism Our Lifelong Companion
Everyone Needs a Quest
Get Your Free Ticket to Everywhere
The Retirement Readiness Questionnaire
6 Retirement's Ages and Stages 67
Growing Old Is Not about Age, but about Attitude
Dignity and Pride-Our Mirror of Life
And Yes, We Can See through the Front Windshields
Being Young Is Overrated
Mortality Is Finite, Goodness Infinite
We Can't Stop Aging, but We Can Keep Living
Both Life and Retirement Are Lived in Cycles
The Five Stages and Ages of Retirement
The Challenges Ahead
Retirement Changes Everything
Stay Purposeful, My Friends
Retirement Ages and Stages Worksheet
Part III Retirement's Six Fundamental Building Blocks
7 The Retirement Pyramid and Eye 93
Building it High, Making It Strong
Plans Are "Hopes" Waiting to Happen
Plans Are Not Infallible
Retirement's Six Building Blocks: The Hierarchy of Retirement's Sustaining and Contributing Factors
Retirement Sustaining Factors: Health and Money; or Is It Money and Health? How Much Is Our Health Worth?
Health Talks, Money Walks
The Mysterious Case(s) of Howard Hughes and Others
Sudden Wealth Can Kill
Critical "Contributing Factors" for Retirement Success
Be Prepared to Suspend Disbelief
Building Block #1: Physical and Emotional Health and Well-Being
8 Taking Care of Our Aging Selves 103
It's Not about How Long We Live, but How Well We Live
We Are All Different
What We Will See in the Mirror
Now for the Big Stuff
Food Can Kill
Obesity Doesn't Have to Be Us
Live in Real Time, Not Virtually
It's Never Too Late to Begin Again
The Elderly and Depression
Boredom and Loneliness Can Kill-So Can Drugs
Who Me, I Just Have a Social Drink or Two, Maybe More
An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
Optimism-It Keeps Showing Up So It Must Be Important
Building Block #2: Financial Security and Continuity
9 Your Retirement, Your Money, and You 121
Do I Have Enough Money to Retire? It Depends
Wants Are Infinite-Income Is Finite
When Is Enough, Enough?
No One Has a Monopoly on Happiness
What the Experts and the Not So Expert Tell Us about Money and Retirement
Just Step into My Tent
Printing Money: What a Novel Idea
Why Some Dare to Retire and Others Fear to Retire
Financially Sustainable Retirements Must Dos and Should Do's
Are You Really Ready to Finance Your Retirement?
The Financial Readiness Audit
Building Block #3: Life Transition and Acceptance
10 For Every Exit There's an Entrance 145
The Cycle of Life
Meet and Greet Our Aging Selves
Our Bridge to Anywhere
We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Beware the Velvet Prison
Moving Home and Hearth
Sometimes You Just Have to Break from the Past
Retirement Is Life without Training Wheels
Retirement Doesn't Change Lives, We Change Our Lives
Retirement: When It's Our Time
11 What's Your Retirement Personality? 157
Not Everyone Believes Retirement Is a Good Thing
You Get Out of Retirement What You Are Prepared to Put In
Life as We Knew It, and Life as It Will Become
Retirement Changes Everything
Of Course, We'll Get Together for Lunch Every Week
Starting Over
A New Perhaps Bittersweet Reality Awaits
Our Retirement Personalities-Nature or Nurture
Nature Joins Nurture: Science Weighs In
Getting from "A" to "B"-A Distinction with a Profound Difference
Adapting to Retirement-Overcoming Stress through Positive Action
Different Times, Different Demands, More Stress
Life Is Viewed through Different Prisms
Will You Be Living a Type A or Type B Retirement?-Your Choice
Going from "A" to "B, and Not the Other Way Round
Building Block #4: Intergenerational Life Engagement
12 Why Can't We All Just Get Along: The Importance of Staying Socially Connected 179
Letting Go, Moving Forward
Where Did All Those "Touchstones" Go?
Retirement "Unstructured Everything
Building Social Assets
New Touchstones to the Rescue
Meeting and Greeting-First Impressions Count
Mature Male/Female Seeking Compatible Others
I Want to Be Alone… Do You, Really?
Is Anybody Listening, Does Anybody Care?
Talk Is Cheap, but I Guess We Already Knew That
New Realities Require New Responses
Don't Let Insecurity Separate You from the World
Did You Ever Notice?
People Reading People
Looking for Friends in All the Wrong Places
Are You Talking to Me?
The Building Blocks to Better Conversation Checklist
13 We Are Who We Are Until We Aren't 197
The Games People Play
Prepare to Be Troubled and Enlightened
Behavioral Profile #1: The Dominator
Behavioral Profile #2: The Critic
Behavioral Profile #3: The Pleaser
Behavioral Profile #4: The Achiever
Behavioral Profile #5: The Manipulator
So Who Gets Along With Whom and Why
Locked In Can Get You Locked Out
The Matrix Is Talking to You, So Listen Up
Reach Out and Really Touch Someone
Can You Sing "Kumbaya"?
Building Block #5: Intellectual and Physical Pursuits, Interests, and Activities
14 The Power of Wonderment: Keeping Our Brains Creatively Occupied 217
Our Aging Brains
Listen to Your Brain, Not Your Stomach
Taking Our Brain Out to Play
Independent Thinkers Wanted
The World Will Always Be a Mysterious Place
Viewing Life in First Person
Lifelong Learning Requires a Lifelong Commitment
Libraries Reach Out to Seniors
The Local Connection-Senior Centers
Travel with a Purpose
Doing Good, Helping Others
A Final Plea
15 The Adventurous Retiree: Around the World or Around the Corner 231
Virtual Worlds, Nonvirtuous Bodies
What Do You Mean by "Adventure"?
Retirement Will Only Be as Good as Our Last Adventure
Age Should Never Become a Barrier to Adventure
Little Separates the Brave from the Fool or from the Just Lucky to Be Alive
Take Life from Dull to Daring
Prepare to Get Lost in Adventure-The World Awaits
There's Something Out There for Every One of Us
Start with the Familiar and the Comfortable
Adventure Is Right outside Our Doors
Walking for Health, Culture, and Fun
Day Hiking
Geocaching
Bicycling for Life
Snow Sports
Canoeing/Kayaking
What's Stopping You?
The Adventurous Retirees Checklist
Building Block #6: Spirituality, Meaning, Family, and Legacy
16 Is That All There Is? 253
Something's Still Missing, But What? Touch the World
Mine Is Bigger Than Yours
We Can See More Clearly Now
The "Meaning" of Meaning
We Can Give and Accept the Gift of Meaning
Meaning Is Nourishment for the Soul
Go, Johnny, Go-My Most Memorable Life Experience
Moving Beyond Self
We Are Not Alone
No Regrets
Do Not Leave with a Heavy Heart
Our Legacy Is Our Gift to the World
Your Personal Retirement Narrative-Your Life, Your Way!
17 What a Wonderful World 269
All Roads Lead to Retirement
We Bid You Welcome
Until We Meet Again
Endnotes 275