Looking Forward: An Optimist’s Guide to Retirement
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Looking Forward: An Optimist’s Guide to Retirement “Ellen Freudenheim has written the perfect guide for people who want to make the most out of their post-retirement life. Whether you’ve always dreamed ot traveling, starting a new career, or becoming a late-in-life athlet, Looking Forward will help you figure it all out.”
Richard Carlson, author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all small stuff
Just as the best-selling job-hunt guide What Color Is Your Parachute? helped us figure out what we wanted to do for work, Looking Forward helps us figure out what we want to do with our post-career years, whether that means working part-time, traveling to China, writing a novel, or hiking the Rockies.
Thanks to increased life expectancy, Americans are living longer. Millions of baby boomers on the brink of their 60s can happily anticipate many healthy years to come, yet they’re often at a loss about what to do in this new phase of life. And many of them may have an unfulfilled dream or two they’ve never quite been able to shake. Author Ellen Freudenheim, a boomer herself, shares her generation’s uncertainty and excitement. In an engaging, encouraging tone, she tells readers how to successfully pursue everything from second careers to additional academic degrees to volunteer work. Filled with practical tips, informative charts, and revealing quizzes, as well as anecdotes from and profiles of vibrant retirees, Looking Forward is the book that will guide boomers as they reinvent this vital stage of life.
Customer Review: Looking Forward
Good insight into things to do to get ready for retirement. Humorous but insightful.
Customer Review: An In-depth Guide on How Not to Retire.
It’s hard being old and set out to pasture. Some folks just give in and accept their lot of being pushed into a corner to live out some twenty or more years doing nothing, just existing. Why retire when you are not ready? There is no set age now for retirement. Keep on doing what you enjoy and make that money as long as you can! You will have time to enjoy it when you are ready!
If you haven’t had any social life or spiritual training before the age of 65, it’s a little late to start now. Oh, it is good to go to dances and church, but alone — that is as bad as not going at all. Who wants an old, decrepit man to take you places and to tell you what to do? No one needs that!
If you don’t know yourself by now, it’s just plain too late to start finding your inner self through workbook studies or seminars telling you how you should think and live. No one can live your life for you. Only the losers go to Florida! Stay where you know the terrain and enjoy being yourself. Now is the time! With the white or gray hair, you are invisible to most of the populace anyway, so get out there and have fun! Raise a little hell! You will find that finally after all these years, you CAN be yourself. Perhaps young, inexperienced males will look on you as ‘over the hill,’ but hey! what do they really know — they haven’t been there yet and cannot judge the elderly. Their time will come sooner than they wish and they, too, will be invisible and on their own in a hostile world.
Don’t hide away and wither! And, for God’s sake, don’t waste time volunteering. We have only a limited time to enjoy being who we are and who God created, a unique individual. If you like traveling and have the money, by all means, do so. It is never too late to learn. What we see will be temporary as there will be no one to share the experience with, so why buy postcards. That is a waste of money. Take your own pictures!
Hobbies are time-consuming and who has the time now. Get out and live. And the world will be rosier and you will be happier and more fulfilled for the day when you go to the Great Beyond. There are no ‘caregivers’ especially family, as they tend to desert and abandon you when you are a drag on them. So, don’t be a drag! Be independent. Go places, and be yourself, warts and all. No one really cares about the old unless you have a fortune to leave them. Don’t be so stupid. Spend it on enjoying life, as they will not thank you after you are dead.
Move where you want to when you want to. You have to suvive where you find yourself and if the place is bad and a prison to you, move on. Save a little money to pay the young men to move your things and life will go on as normal, more or less. It is always a challenge to move from one town to another, but it can be done. Just be sure you know someone there, or the town itself so that you won’t feel lost and alone. You are never alone as long as you have God in your heart. No one can harm you when your spirit is strong. Don’t let someone make you feel weak when you’re not.
Retirement is a drag. It is a retirement from life not work. Don’t ever give up. Always keep your chin up and look forward. Every cloud has a silver lining, and you can find your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, if you just believe.
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Pay Yourself First: A Commonsense Guide to Life-Cycle Retirement Investing
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Pay Yourself First: A Commonsense Guide to Life-Cycle Retirement Investing In this concise, accessible guide, Timothy W. Cunningham and Clay B. Mansfield, cofounders of the Life Cycle Mutual FundsTM, show you how to meet the financial challenge of retirement with a revolutionary new approach: life cycle retirement investing. Based on common sense, life cycle retirement investing breaks from conventional thinking and hard-to-understand modern portfolio theory to put you at the center of your retirement investing plan. Using stories and easy-to-understand basic concepts, Pay Yourself First gives you the right tools to take charge of your finances and achieve a secure retirement.
“A must-read for baby boomers who want to live happily ever after.” —Peter Bernstein Editor, The Practical Guide to Practically Everything Executive Editor, U.S. News and World Report
“Starting with the title, there’s loads of good advice in this book. The authors apply basic economic principles to illuminate the challenges of saving and investing. Readers will get a realistic, get-rich-slow plan for accumulating a nest egg to support them in retirement.” —Thomas G. Donlan Editorial Page Editor, Barron’s National Business and Financial Weekly Author, Don’t Count on It: Why Your Pension May Be in Jeopardy and How to Protect Yourself
“Well written and insightful.” —David N. Dreman, Professional money manager and columnist, Forbes magazine
“This book cuts through layers of obfuscation about intelligent investing for retirement. Mansfield and Cunningham should be on everyone’s bookshelf next to Graham and Dodd.” —Gordon Hally, Senior Vice President, Pacific Investment Management Company
“Easy to read, easy to follow. . . . It’s hard to take exception to the logical plan for financial security presented in the book.” —John W. Church, Jr. Executive Vice President, The Glenmede Trust
Customer Review: One of the most insight books on investing for the future.
This is a must read for people in their 20s and 30s, especially those who are married and have children. Most people think Social Security and the company 401K will take care of their retirement. A great many of those people believe if they start saving in their mid-30s they will accumulate enough wealth to retire comfortably. This book reinforces the need to begin saving for retirement as soon as you begin working full-time because of the power of compounding and all of the various circumstances like Bar Mitzah’s, weddings and other financially draining events. It made me examine my own portfolio and strategy for future financial events. It is a very easy to read and understand book and can be read in a day
Helping clients dream about rowing the boat gently down the income stream: converting retirement savings into income is generally a 3-part process.(Focus: … from: National Underwriter Life & Health
June 25, 2008
Helping clients dream about rowing the boat gently down the income stream: converting retirement savings into income is generally a 3-part process.(Focus: … from: National Underwriter Life & Health This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Life & Health, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 6, 2004. The length of the article is 1034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Helping clients dream about rowing the boat gently down the income stream: converting retirement savings into income is generally a 3-part process.(Focus: income planning)
Author: Kristen L. Falk
Publication: National Underwriter Life & Health (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 6, 2004
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 108 Issue: 33 Page: 14(2)
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