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Covering every stage of the retirement process, this comprehensive guide to a happy retirement is full of practical advice, grounded in psychological research. Infographics and self-analysis questions help to apply the insights you’ll gain to your own situation, providing a roadmap for managing change in the best way for you.
Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention answers all your questions at every stage: making plans, transitioning to retirement, and settling in for the long-haul. Learn how to reinvent yourself and ensure you have a happy retirement.
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Basher –
Interesting topics. Covered subjects I hadn’t thought of or new existed.
Elin –
This book is readable, interesting and practical. It gives food for thought but isn’t too ‘deep’ like some books on the same subject. The headings don’t have to be read in order. I would recommend it.
Summer York –
Very interesting book. We are often told to plan financially for retirement but not emotionally. This book helps you to navigate the psychological path of thinking about retirement, planning it and what it’s like to actually do it. The chapter on how to say goodbye to colleagues whether loved or hated has sound advice. Also, a quiz determines if you are ready to retire. Unsurprisingly my score showed I was emotionally ready but warned me to take care of myself while churning through more years at work due to financial needs. We have a work till late 60s/early70s culture at my workplace. Early retirement is seen as a cop out. My dread is hanging on at work due to procrastination and then being cut down by illness as has just happened to a colleague. Didn’t get a chance to enjoy any retirement at all, poor thing. Using this book I hope to come up with a plan to move actively into an earlyish retirement. I have used Alvin Hall’s book “plan now and retire happy” to get my finances in order. I would naturally stick my head in the sand about financial and emotional retirement issues but facing them and planning for them does give me peace of mind.
Mr. John C –
Lots of stuff in the book, much of which is repeated, and not particularly relevant to my personal circumstances, however there are some really helpful sections that easily make it worth purchasing and ploughing through the duller parts. If I was starting again I would not have bought the kindle version as most of the diagrams are too small to read.
Steeve139 –
This is a lovely book. All the chapters are short and punchy, and you don’t have to read them in the order they are presented. It is a book written in America for Americans, but the differences, as far as this topic are concerned, are very small and easy to cope with. I haven’t retired yet, but this book does point out a range of things I can expect and have to deal with.
I can say that reading this book has changed my wife and I’s retirement plans, and I feel a lot better about retiring now I have read this book. I am sure I will keep on referring to it as the process goes ahead. And on this basis, I am pleased to award this book 5 stars.
Stephen Green –
This is a welcome approach to the subject of retirement. There is no shortage of people telling you how you should spend your time and your money. This book is about how you should think and feel. The author writes with full coaching skills to pinpoint how YOU feel as though he is writing just for you. This is because he covers all the main feelings and situations so that we identify our own thoughts but clarified and articulated so that we can decide whether we are happy about this and want to make choices and changes. The book then delivers choices that make us feel in control of our futures. This is so important because so many retired people dwell on their pasts and are fearful of the certainties (death and taxes) and uncontrollables of our futures. This book offers peace of mind and strategies because having finally escaped from or lost the many benefits of work it would be such a waste not to make the most of it. Personally I am semi retired which I believe gives me the best of both worlds.
Kindle Customer –
An easy-to-read, well-structured book, excellently researched. A book to read fro m cover to cover, and to dip into as the need requires.
Dr Laurence Solkin –
Easy to a access, well organised with lots of useful ideas. The psychology is variable with some current but some hopelessly outdated.
Riyä –
Not good enough