How to retire happy, wild, and free Retirement wisdom that you won't get from your financial advisor
Book - 2010
"'How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free' offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy like to its fullest. The key to achieving an active and satisfying retirement involves a great deal more than having adequate financial resources; it also encompasses all other aspects of life -- interesting leisure activities, creative pursuits, physical well-being, mental well-being, and solid social support"--Cover, p. 4.
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Edmonton, AB, Canada :
Visions International Pub
[2010]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBN
- 9780969419495
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Thank Heaven for Retirement!
- Perhaps it's time to tell your boss, "I'm outta here!"
- Retirement should put a perpetual smile on your face
- To not plan for an active retirement is to set yourself up for a difficult one
- You are never too young to retire
- Retiring too late means you don't get another chance to do it right
- You can have your retirement cake and eat it too
- A major dilemma: life is short - and so is money
- If deep down you know you are ready, "just do it!"
- Chapter 2. Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You Have Ever Been
- Retirement can set you free
- To have no aptitude for leisure is to have no aptitude for life
- Create a new identity because your old one won't do
- Being on purpose is easy if you have one
- Finding and pursuing your true calling can make retirement the best time of your life
- Work at something that is not so much a job, but a fun thing to do
- Reclaiming your creative spirit will put joyful purpose into your retirement life
- Not writing a book can be more difficult than writing one
- Chapter 3. So Many Worlds, So Much to Do!
- To be bored is to retire from life
- Plant your Get-a-Life Tree and watch it grow and grow
- You don't have to watch one minute of TV when you retire - and perhaps you shouldn't
- An ounce of action is worth a ton of sitting around
- Create new structures and routines with your leisure
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised
- Chapter 4. Take Special Care of Yourself - Because No One Else Will!
- You too can exercise your right to a healthy and happy retirement
- Obesity is getting too widespread - avoid it if you can
- If you don't take care of your body, where do you intend to live?
- The shortcut to being truly fit and trim is long-term rigorous action
- An active walk in nature is the best medicine for many of your ailments
- Your mind needs a good run too
- Chapter 5. Learning Is for Life
- Commit yourself to being a lifelong learner and your life will never be without purpose
- Become a college drop-in and stay more engaged in life
- Take a joy course for personal growth, self-development, and lifelong learning
- Work on a university degree and experience a sense of belonging with younger people
- It's more fun to be wired than not
- Elderhostel will help you discover the world
- Chapter 6. Your Wealth Is Where Your Friends Are
- Above all, friends make life complete
- Two or three real friends are worth more than a hundred superficial ones
- You can't wait at home to be discovered
- Keep active and enjoy yourself while looking for love
- You grow most when you are alone
- Chapter 7. Travel for Fun, Adventure, and More
- Take yourself out of your element and inspire yourself with new insights
- Spend all the money that you can on travel if travel really turns you on
- Tips on how to enhance your next journey
- Use the Internet to make your travel adventures affordable and enjoyable
- Travel with a difference
- Implement something unique into your next trek
- Become an ecotourist
- You don't have to be rich to spend a month or two in a warmer climate
- Enjoy yourself in a myriad of ways at a recreational vehicle retirement resort
- Why travel alone when you don't have to?
- Swap your house for a neat pad in some faraway paradise
- Try a working vacation for a more satisfying traveling experience
- Journey close to home and do the things that an out-of-town tourist might do
- Chapter 8. Relocate to Where Retirement Living Is Best
- Live somewhere else and do what you have always wanted to do
- Consider moving to a college town
- The secret to a really wonderful retired lifestyle
- Chapter 9. Happiness Doesn't Care How You Get There
- Retirement is not a time to sleep, but a time to awaken to the beauty of the world around you
- Celebrate your eccentricity and you will be set free
- If money can buy happiness, then why aren't you selling some of yours?
- You will overlook the silver lining if you are always expecting gold
- Be happy while you are alive because you are a long time dead
- It's better to live rich than to die rich
- Helping others can make life more worthwhile and you happier than you have ever been
- Forget how old you are - this becomes more important the older you get
- Don't leave this world with songs unsung that you would like to sing