Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully (GOLD medal 2009 Axiom Award as the year's best retirement book)
by david on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | 3 Comments
Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully (GOLD medal 2009 Axiom Award as the year's best retirement book)
Planning is not the strongest indicator of a successful retirement. The research conducted by Dr. Bill Roiter for Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully found that the strongest indicator is confidence in your ability to retire successfully. Planning is, of course, an important contributing factor of confidence, as is knowledge. The more you know, the more confident you can feel. Beyond Work looks at what happens as accomplished people move beyond work and enter their years as
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How to prepare for the best period of your life,
I am in my fifties and beginning to seriously consider retiring. I've seen lots of books about preparing yourself financially, and certainly seen "self-help" stuff describing how to be comfortable with yourself when you retire. But Roiter's book is the first I've seen that knits all the areas to consider – social, financial, personal and physical – into an understandable, integrated picture. He uses common sense terms, and entertaining real-life examples, to explain how to prepare for what should be one of the best periods of your life.
Roiter is a successful executive coach, author ("Corporate MVPs") and psychologist in Boston. He has spent years advising financial executives and other sophisticated types on career strategies. But as his clients have begun thinking about retirement, he clearly saw a need to help successful working people make the transition to a personally rewarding "New Adulthood." "Beyond Work" does just that, particularly for us boomers who aren't retiring into old age, but are just moving from our working lives into a personally satisfying life after work. I don't know whether I'll stop working in 2 years or in 30, but at least now I know what I'll need for a rewarding, lively, and enjoyable life "Beyond Work."
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|A Great Book To Help You Find Your True North into Retirement,
This book should be on Oprah! In an age where there is no shortage of self-help gurus, Dr. Roiter delivers a guide book that examines how we can transition from a career-focused life to a rewarding and balanced retirement or "new adulthood".
"Beyond Work" validates what successful professionals do well and provides a structured outline on how to carry those work success skills into a well-rounded and happy retirement. The book is concise and refreshingly real, from offering ways to be a good friend and reinforce happiness in your life, to offering a gentle but honest approach on how to budget your money and find a good financial planner.
Without a doubt, "Beyond Work" is a great addition to any library if you care about improving your life financially, physically, socially, and personally.
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|It's not about money –it's about you,
This book emphasizes the fact that not since you were very young have you had a chance to think or act on you own behalf. Now you can do what works for you. Using easy-to-grasp illustrations of the focus of our lives during various stages, the author opens up new possibilities for the "new adult" to look at what retirement has to offer. I have recommended this book to several people and each has responded with thanks and enthusiasm. (My broker bought it for her mother-in-law.) Several report their identification with the personal stories the author includes. The book encourages one to think differently about one's life, retired or not.
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