Supercharged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love
Life after retirement is much more exciting if you look beyond what you need for financial security as you prepare for it. Mary Lloyd lays out a whole new paradigm for doing this and shows you how to assess what you really want and need--physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually--to make retired life the most rewarding time of all. Supercharged Retirement will help you conquer the emotional and personal challenges of stepping out of the workforce with solutions that work specifically...
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Life after retirement is much more exciting if you look beyond what you need for financial security as you prepare for it. Mary Lloyd lays out a whole new paradigm for doing this and shows you how to assess what you really want and need--physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually--to make retired life the most rewarding time of all. Supercharged Retirement will help you conquer the emotional and personal challenges of stepping out of the workforce with solutions that work specifically for you. This book is a valuable wake-up call, particularly if you've been focused on financial planning alone. It will challenge your assumptions about this stage of life, refocus your sense of what's possible, rekindle your passions, and reawaken your drive to spend your time, energy, and resources on what's important to you. You'll discover how to • Decide if you really want to retire now or ever. • Design a lifestyle for your post-career years that s right for you. • Find compelling ways to act on what's important to you and maintain your sense of purpose. • Keep your world expanding. • Define strategies for dealing with likely challenges and potential fears.A passionate guide for making these years sparkle, Supercharged Retirement turns conventional wisdom about how to prepare for retirement on its ear. It delivers practical, easy-to-read advice about a better way to do it, using humor, anecdotes, and exercises along with a wide range of factual information. If you use this book, get ready to launch. With Lloyd's recommendations, not even the sky is the limit.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: A Few Preliminary Remarks 1Chapter One Out the Door and Over the Cliff 5Chapter Two Tools for Excavating Your Life 31Chapter Three Combing Your Personal Beach 57Chapter Four Nuts and Bolts and Other Physical Stuff 87Chapter Five Mental Monkey Bars 117Chapter Six Marshmallows, Icicles, and Prickly Things in the Dark 143Chapter Seven Managing Zucchini 171Chapter Eight Cut List for the Whole Enchilada 197Chapter Nine Choose Your Own Adventure 223Chapter Notes 231From Here, There, and Everywhere-Other Resources 239Index 253
