Retirement by Steiner, Rick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Part I: Am I Really Ready To Retire?

1. Our Real Wonder Years

Retirement: Prologue or Epilogue? Stuff Happens Doorway to the Rest of Our Lives What This Book and Retirement Are About What Retirement Is Not About Welcome to “Our World” With a Little Help from Our Friends Of Course I’m Going to Retire Retirement: Life’s Only Mulligan Real People, Real Lives How to Use this Book

2. Reflections from the Other Side of Work

Eventually Most of Us Just Say “Enough!” All That Glitters Is Not Gold Why Is That Speeding Train Headed for Us? It’s Not Just You Floating in a “Most Peculiar Way” The Wanderer, Perhaps, Is Truly Lost Retirement Is a Privilege, Not a Right The Answer Please Retirements Don’t Happen, We Make Them Happen The Meaning of Retirement According To …? Retirement’s Six Fundamental Building Blocks Making Retirement the New Normal And the Beat Goes On

Part II: The Journey Begins

3. Recapturing Lost Dreams and Missed Opportunities

On Perspective Congratulations, You Are Now on the Road to Retirement Sometimes Life Just Gets in the Way So Many Paths, So Many Choices, So Little Time Let Your Life Narrative Be Your Guide Retirement Is Optional, Old Age and Death Are Not We Are All Born Equally Helpless and Impressionable It’s Your Life Script, So Write a Happy Ending We Are Responsible for Our Personal Destinies Don’t Forget the Past, Bring It Forward Worrying, Wondering, and Wandering We Don’t All Retire—But We All Stop Working Does This Sound Like You? After the Party

4. As the World Turns

Things Change Work Was Who We Were and What We Did Most of Us Retire for the Right Reasons What Are We Retiring To? It’s Not Always about the Money What Did You Say? Retirement Isn’t for Sissies Retirement’s Should Do’s Retirement What Not to Do’s The Not So Exclusive Club

5. Retirement Is Not a Spectator Sport

Life’s Pivot Point Reality Bites See and Be Seen Shaping Our Personal Retirement Destinies Retirement Isn’t about Dreaming, It’s about Doing Retirement: Make It Personal Make Optimism Our Lifelong Companion Everyone Needs a Quest Get Your Free Ticket to Everywhere The Retirement Readiness Questionnaire

6. Retirement’s Ages and Stages

Growing Old Is Not about Age, but about Attitude Dignity and Pride—Our Mirror of Life And Yes, We Can See through the Front Windshields Being Young Is Overrated Mortality Is Finite, Goodness Infinite We Can’t Stop Aging, but We Can Keep Living Both Life and Retirement Are Lived in Cycles The Five Stages and Ages of Retirement The Challenges Ahead Retirement Changes Everything Stay Purposeful, My Friends Retirement Ages and Stages Worksheet

Part III: Retirement’s Six Fundamental Building Blocks

7. The Retirement Pyramid and Eye

Building it High, Making It Strong Plans Are “Hopes” Waiting to Happen Plans Are Not Infallible Retirement’s Six Building Blocks: The Hierarchy of Retirement’s Sustaining and Contributing Factors Retirement Sustaining Factors: Health and Money; or Is It Money and Health? How Much Is Our Health Worth? Health Talks, Money Walks The Mysterious Case(s) of Howard Hughes and Others Sudden Wealth Can Kill Critical “Contributing Factors” for Retirement Success Be Prepared to Suspend Disbelief

8. Taking Care of Our Aging Selves

It’s Not about How Long We Live, but How Well We Live We Are All Different What We Will See in the Mirror Now for the Big Stuff Food Can Kill Obesity Doesn’t Have to Be Us Live in Real Time, Not Virtually It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again The Elderly and Depression Boredom and Loneliness Can Kill—So Can Drugs Who Me, I Just Have a Social Drink or Two, Maybe More An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure Optimism—It Keeps Showing Up So It Must Be Important

9. Your Retirement, Your Money, and You

Do I Have Enough Money to Retire? It Depends Wants Are Infinite—Income Is Finite When Is Enough, Enough? No One Has a Monopoly on Happiness What the Experts and the Not So Expert Tell Us about Money and Retirement Just Step into My Tent Printing Money: What a Novel Idea Why Some Dare to Retire and Others Fear to Retire Financially Sustainable Retirements Must Do’s and Should Do’s Are You Really Ready to Finance Your Retirement? The Financial Readiness Audit

10. For Every Exit There’s an Entrance

The Cycle of Life Meet and Greet Our Aging Selves Our Bridge to Anywhere We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Beware the Velvet Prison Moving Home and Hearth Sometimes You Just Have to Break from the Past Retirement Is Life without Training Wheels Retirement Doesn’t Change Lives, We Change Our Lives Retirement: When It’s Our Time

11. What’s Your Retirement Personality?

Not Everyone Believes Retirement Is a Good Thing You Get Out of Retirement What You Are Prepared to Put In Life as We Knew It, and Life as It Will Become Retirement Changes Everything Of Course, We’ll Get Together for Lunch Every Week Starting Over A New Perhaps Bittersweet Reality Awaits Our Retirement Personalities—Nature or Nurture Nature Joins Nurture: Science Weighs In Getting from “A” to “B”—A Distinction with a Profound Difference Adapting to Retirement—Overcoming Stress through Positive Action Different Times, Different Demands, More Stress Life Is Viewed through Different Prisms Will You Be Living a Type A or Type B Retirement?—Your Choice Going from “A” to “B, and Not the Other Way Round

12. Why Can’t We All Just Get Along: The Importance of Staying Socially Connected

Letting Go, Moving Forward Where Did All Those “Touchstones” Go? Retirement “Unstructures” Everything Building Social Assets New Touchstones to the Rescue Meeting and Greeting—First Impressions Count Mature Male/Female Seeking Compatible Others I Want to Be Alone … Do You, Really? Is Anybody Listening, Does Anybody Care? Talk Is Cheap, but I Guess We Already Knew That New Realities Require New Responses Don’t Let Insecurity Separate You from the World Did You Ever Notice? People Reading People Looking for Friends in All the Wrong Places Are You Talking to Me? The Building Blocks to Better Conversation Checklist

13. We Are Who We Are Until We Aren’t

The Games People Play Prepare to Be Troubled and Enlightened Behavioral Profile # 1: The Dominator Behavioral Profile #2: The Critic Behavioral Profile #3: The Pleaser Behavioral Profile #4: The Achiever Behavioral Profile #5: The Manipulator So Who Gets Along With Whom and Why Locked In Can Get You Locked Out The Matrix Is Talking to You, So Listen Up Reach Out and Really Touch Someone Can You Sing “Kumbaya”?

14. The Power of Wonderment: Keeping Our Brains Creatively Occupied

Our Aging Brains Listen to Your Brain, Not Your Stomach Taking Our Brain Out to Play Independent Thinkers Wanted The World Will Always Be a Mysterious Place Viewing Life in First Person Lifelong Learning Requires a Lifelong Commitment Libraries Reach Out to Seniors The Local Connection—Senior Centers Travel with a Purpose Doing Good, Helping Others A Final Plea

15. The Adventurous Retiree: Around The World or Around The Corner

Virtual Worlds, Nonvirtuous Bodies What Do You Mean by “Adventure”? Retirement Will Only Be as Good as Our Last Adventure Age Should Never Become a Barrier to Adventure Little Separates the Brave from the Fool or from the Just Lucky to Be Alive Take Life from Dull to Daring Prepare to Get Lost in Adventure—The World Awaits There’s Something Out There for Every One of Us Start with the Familiar and the Comfortable Adventure Is Right outside Our Doors Walking for Health, Culture, and Fun Day Hiking Geocaching Bicycling for Life Snow Sports Canoeing/Kayaking What’s Stopping You? The Adventurous Retiree’s Checklist

16. Is That All There Is?

Something’s Still Missing, But What? Touch the World Mine Is Bigger Than Yours We Can See More Clearly Now The “Meaning” of Meaning We Can Give and Accept the Gift of Meaning Meaning Is Nourishment for the Soul Go, Johnny, Go—My Most Memorable Life Experience Moving Beyond Self We Are Not Alone No Regrets Do Not Leave with a Heavy Heart Our Legacy Is Our Gift to the World Your Personal Retirement Narrative—Your Life, Your Way!

17. What a Wonderful World

All Roads Lead to Retirement We Bid You Welcome Until We Meet Again

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