Have you retired, are feeling isolated or depressed, and have no clue what to do next? Not a one-size-fits-allapproach, this self-help book for retirees, those soon to retire, baby boomers, and seniors offers an individualized, detailed guide to assist readers in discovering activities and pursuits in this new stage of their lives based on their own interests and comfort level. The author learned the secret the hard way transitioning from retired probation officer to actress, author, public speaker, and blogger. Audience members at her lectures on senior reinvention requested a book on the subject. This is the result, and it contains the content of those talks and six years of posts from her blog. Those lectures, blog, and this book are all titled, "Reinventing Yourself in Your Retirement Years." Don't waste away in an unfilling retirement. This book could have a major impact on the rest of your life.
"A personal development approach to discovering, nurturing and defining the new second-act career that's already inside you. The book's 5-step methodology contains 23 practical and accessible strategies to turn your new job or new business idea into a reality."--Back cover.
Retirement has changed, and America’s most trusted career counselor is here to guide you through your own Retirement Reinvention “Robin Ryan is the most knowledgeable career expert in the nation today.” —PBS For twenty years, Robin Ryan has been helping clients get the most out of their careers and their lives. Now, in Retirement Reinvention, she shatters the myths of retirement. The old model of retirement is changing. The majority of retirees today are seeking fun and meaningful ways to spend their time. Full of practical advice, this thought-provoking guide offers readers a path for reinventing their own retirements, including step-by-step instructions for: • Leaving an old career behind • Pinpointing interests and skills • Exploring different places to live • Defining new, satisfying opportunities • Finding meaningful ways to give back to your community • Striking the right balance between work and leisure From starting a dream business to shifting to the nonprofit sector to volunteering, Robin Ryan will help you create a plan and pivot toward a future as vital as it is truly rewarding.
REINVENTING YOURSELF AFTER 50 14 Day Challenge One thing that many people are starting to recognize is the unfair structure of their lives. We say many instead of all because there are some people who live a life of purpose from the beginning. We want to address the fact that you went to school and got an education that you or your parents chose. After that was done, you went into the workforce and may still be working at a job that will have you retiring in 10 or 15 years. Many people stop working at ages 65 or 67 and then pass the time until that final bell rings. Perhaps they may regret their choices and spend a lot of their retirement playing the "what if I had done this different," game. Many things can happen when you choose to reinvent yourself after age 50. You can reinvent how you exercise and eat. You might change the negative mindset you have had for many years. All three changes can add many more years to your life. If you are not sure of how a negative mindset can affect your lifespan, remember that stress can be a killer and it comes from carrying a negative mindset. It is essential to stop looking back on your past and getting upset because you went to work instead of writing that novel that would have propelled you to fame and fortune. You should look back but only to look at your "story" and the times you turned a so-called failure into a success. This will show you common threads that happened throughout your life that will help you in the idea of reinventing yourself. An idea that many people do not consider is "making sure" to do the things you need to do to live until you are 100 or beyond. Ask yourself what you could accomplish if you did this. As you reinvent yourself, you will constantly be learning, which will improve your brain health and help to ward off cognitive decline. We know that reinventing yourself after age 50 means making significant changes in your health and mindset. The goal of this challenge is to get you on the right track to reinventing yourself. One central idea crucial to your success is the idea of purpose. You will discover your purpose, and when you hit age 100, you will be able to reflect on having lived many of your years with a clear and definite purpose. Note: The idea of living to 100 may seem out of the question but if you look at different cultures, you will see some where people live a very purposeful life to 100 and beyond. It can happen if you do the right things like reinventing yourself. We will start the challenge by having you decide on your life priorities. This will engage your mind and help you to be creative during the entire challenge.
A practical, fully illustrated guide to planning and enjoying retirement, grounded in psychological research. Retirement can bring immense fulfillment but also can be a source of stress, especially today. Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention uses psychological research and a unique visual style of infographics and illustrations to provide readers with a retirement roadmap just right for them. Fully illustrated, with constructive advice for all retirees — whatever the age and circumstances — and inspirational guidance from a wealth of sources, Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention answers all the questions readers are likely to ask at any stage of retirement.
“Thursday morning. One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old—a full-blown catastrophe.” What happens when you realize you’ve had the career of your dreams, but you don’t have the life of your dreams? This was the stark reality facing Sheri Salata when she left her twenty-year stint at The Oprah Winfrey Show, Harpo Studios and the OWN network. She had dedicated decades to her dream job, and loved (almost) every minute of it, but had left the rest of her life gathering dust on the shelf. After years of telling other people’s makeover stories, Sheri decided to “produce” her own life transformation. And this meant revisiting her past, excavating its lessons, and boldly reimagining her future. In these pages, she invites readers along for the ride—detoxing in the desert, braving humiliation at Hollywood’s favorite fitness studio, grappling with losses, reinventing friendships, baring her soul in sex therapy, and more. Part cautionary tale, part middle-of-life rallying cry, Sheri’s stories offer profound inspiration for personal renewal.
You’ve worked hard for the better part of four or five decades, and now you’ve decided it’s time to call it quits. Or your employer or industry regulations may have made that decision for you. What now? Although a life of ease may have been your dream, retirement brings with it a host of questions, problems, and responsibilities that never occurred to you and now may seem insurmountable. How to Survive Retirement will help you plan for most any eventuality during the golden years. The book is divided into four major areas: • Making The Break: The emotions of retirement. • Where Did The Money Go?—Financial considerations • I Don’t Feel So Great—Physical/medical aspects of retirement. • Hey, Look What I Did!—Filling leisure time. Doing nothing may become the hardest thing you’ve ever done. However, thanks to this survival guide, you’ll be able to enjoy the rest of your life.
With humor, wisdom, practical advice, and inspiring stories from some of America's most distinguished leaders, Bronfman, former CEO of Seagram's, explores the most important lessons he's discovered about life after retirement.
Whether retirement is right around the corner or a little far away, you deserve a retirement that's a fitting reward for a lifetime of hard work. This book will be your essential companion. This book is for people in their thirties or forties who know they have to start preparing for retirement but aren’t exactly sure how yet. It is also for People in their fifties, sixties, and beyond. Even people much past the retirement age will find value in this book. Retirement, like any major transition in life, comes with a whole array of emotions and worries. More than retirement's financial and physical health aspects, the emotional aspects require more attention. By thoughtfully planning, you can help ease the overwhelming emotions of this significant life transition, and spend more time enjoying your new life to the fullest. Using the guidance and insight provided in this book, anyone, at any stage of their life, can find the ways to a dynamic and fulfilling life ahead. The key is, bringing transformation from loss of identity, which comes with retirement, to sense of purpose. Society views us that way and makes us believe that after a certain stage of retirement, we are largely useless. And unfortunately, it sinks within many of us. We don’t have to allow that. This book will inspire us and tell us how to take retirement as a stage to grow not stop. People in the retirement stage are too young to be old. It has nothing to do with aging. "Retirement years" is an inspirational guide that encompasses all aspects of life mainly physical health, mental health, spiritual health, and financial health. The normal focus or advice on retirement is on the financial part of it. But the wisdom in this book will prove to be much more than the money you have to save. This book is not only for those who are in the retirement stage but also for everyone facing challenges in life and finding life boring and lonely. This is a must-read for anyone struggling to find happiness in daily life and wanting to avoid living out a retired life of mediocrity. We have the potential for happy retirement but for that, we have to plan and make it happen. Retirement years will prove to be the best period provided you plan on what you would do next. You only have to design it that way, no one else will do it for you. Since nothing will happen automatically, and you don’t have to wait for fate to decide for you what to do next, this book will be of help to plan and reinvent yourself. It's an easy read, yet with each page, you will be engaged and perhaps inspired. It's a purposeful guide to help you appreciate and learn what to expect when you are retired, including the challenges. Retirement may be different for each of you but the purpose of a happy retirement is to have a retirement with purpose by first Discovering the process of retirement. This book also guides you to Generate purpose in your retirement life. The simple truth is, you need to be proactive to enjoy retirement and make the most of the rest of your life through smart retirement decisions and this book will guide you in that. It will give you the no-nonsense advice a you need to prepare wisely for your retirement in today's ever-changing landscape. that“Retirement Years,” tells us that we are not done yet and that the retirement stage is a new dawn. The future even if is often filled with fear and uncertainty, but your retirement doesn’t have to be.
Circumvent the tired and conventional approaches of finding purpose, passion, or happiness to discover a path of fulfillment after 60 by pursuing desires, mastering risk-taking, and expanding horizons with confidence. The crisis of unfulfilled lives unfolds gradually, often with acquiesced boredom and a flimsy search for purpose. Our relevancy comes into question, or we succumb to the idea that the future will be one of slow-moving ambition and then an even slower glide into comfort as the flush of freedom fades. We can change this outcome if we want to. We should want to. The 60-Something Crisis: How to Live an Extraordinary Life in Retirement (a 2023 Nautilus Book Award winner) is the first book to circumvent the tired and conventional approaches of finding purpose, passion, or happiness, or using reinvention to discover a path of fulfillment after 60. It presents a clear, practical framework through four portals—geography of place, yield, kinship, and freedom—to navigate and support future well-being and happiness. Readers will learn how to pursue desires, not roadmaps, to increase self-confidence and master risk-taking, and will discover the power and potential of investing in themselves at this time of life. Barbara L. Pagano provides the foundation for taking on or taking back late-stage growth and shifts the conversation from “What’s next?” to “What do I need to know, what do I need to do now, and how soon can I get started?” This book is more than happy talk. Pre-retirees on the brink of a major life transition or retirees who want more from life will find themselves pulled toward a higher target of well-being that endures. Mature adults, now novices in an unfamiliar, uncharted landscape, will welcome a smart, well-written, practical, and poignant guide to hustle them forward, anchored in an award-winning author’s deeply personal experience, well-researched content, and over 200 interviews with retirees and pre-retires. The 60-Something Crisis offers a powerful message for the last third of life.
