When I'm 64: Planning for the Best of Your Life
by david on Friday, August 5th, 2011 | 3 Comments
When I'm 64: Planning for the Best of Your Life
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Once you hit that magic age of 64 (give or take a few years) and stop working, what are you going to do with the rest of your life?
How can you accumulate enough assets to allow you to continue to live a comfortable lifestyle?
How can you use your retirement years most productively?
How can you stack the odds in your favor in terms of maintaining both physical and mental health?
These are the questions facing millions of baby boomers today.
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Listen to this Sage,
It is not often a highly successful person tells you when he did not win the race but still gained from the experience. Marvin Tolkin succeeded in many of his business ventures but tells how he lost in others. Tolkin inspires through his easy storeytelling style when taking risks, listening to others and moving on his own knowledge. I would recommend people in their 30's and 40's read this man's approach to planning for the years ahead using logic, fun and passion. After this quick read, I felt I knew Marvin Tolkin.
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|A top pick for any fast approaching that next chapter,
There's no reason to ever let age slow you down. "When I'm 64: Planning for the Best of Your Life" discusses how one should spend their retirement years, and hopes to push seniors to treat the last few decades as something the previous half dozen have worthily lead up to. Covering health, using one's time, and more, "When I'm 64: Planning for the Best of Your Life" is a top pick for any fast approaching that next chapter.
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|Talks Good Sense, but misses the REAL point of Life – God!,
Tolkin tells the story of his successes and failures in the business world, and the lessons he has learned along the way. He doesn't regret any of his failures because they taught him a thing or two about life and people.
He stresses the importance of a diversified portfolio, investing in the things you are passionate about, finding trusted mavens and sages to guide you in your decisions, and to always have a purpose in life that drives you other than just aiming toward the retired life of golfing or sitting around or taking vacations.
He says not to depend solely on social security or on employer retirement monies. He talks about investing in IRAS and in things that grow your income.
Tolking also shares the story of his marriage and the heartbreaking and sudden loss of his first wife Estelle and how a few years later, he connected with Carole, who became his second wife. He feels like he has been blessed to live two lives, one with Estelle and one with Carole.
Tolkin does a nice job of getting you to think about your plans for retirement (he says the best time to start preparing is in your 30s and 40s). He says that with a little planning and a little luck, the rest of your life can be the best of your life.
This is all good, and the author talks a lot of good sense. But you get the impression that this life is all there is. There is no discussion about life beyond this life, or to put it in other words, planning for your post mortem retirement years. In a sense, there is discussion of these things in that Tolkin is concerned about leaving a legacy and monies for his grandchildren.
But what about God and the afterlife? Regardless of theological pedigree, this is the rest and best of your life. It's more than just putting money away and leaving a few bucks for your kids, it's about loving God and serving others.
The lack of any discussion regarding spiritual or divine or metaphysical reality makes any book about the rest and best of your life come up short.
But because I am perhaps asking too much, and because the author says what he does say very well, I will give this book 5 stars
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