How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) [Paperback]

Hundreds Of Heads (Author), Barbara Waxman (Editor), Bob Mendelson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 18, 2006 | Series: Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides

How to Love Your Retirement shows the baby-boom generation how to plan for, and succeed at, this statge of life, whether relaxation, travel, education, or even a new occupation is the goal. Packed with helpful, entertaining stories and real-life advice from hundreds of retirees who are making the most of their post-work lives, this honest and useful guide covers such topics as how to pick the best time to retire; learning to live with a spouse 24/7; staying fit; starting fresh in business, love, and family; traveling; going back to school; and more.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Recommended"
--GRAND Magazine, the magazine for Today's Grandparents and their Grandkids

[How to Love Your Retirement] provides snippets of advice from scores of people on how they have coped and thrived in retirement.
--Newsday (New York)

How to Love Your Retirement, from publisher Hundreds of Heads, includes contributions from expert sources in finance, health, career, psychology, education and business, providing guidance on some of the challenging questions we'll need to answer:

· How do you know if you're ready to retire?

· How will your relationship with your spouse change?

· What will you do with all that free time?

· Will you get stronger and more fit, or turn into a couch potato?
--Family Goes Strong (NBCU)

“How to Love Your Retirement,” .... outlines core tips for helping people prepare for the next stage in their lives....[it] contains 10 chapters that offer wisdom on topics such as feelings and attitudes about retirement, creativity and brain fitness, finances and technology. There are also exercises that readers can complete to gain further insight, and then perhaps apply the lessons to their own lives.
--J Weekly

As is the premise of the Hundreds of Heads’ Survival Guide series, the best way to answer these questions and many more is to mine the hundreds of heads of real people’s hard-earned wisdom and advice. Barbara and her team conducted hundreds of interviews with boomers and older adults, collecting the best advice from them on a range of topics relating to aging and retirement. In addition to the hundreds of regular people interviewed, contributors include experts in the areas of finance, health, career, psychology, education and business.

The book also includes coaching exercises readers can complete to gain further insight into how to apply lessons to their own lives. This ensures readers are asking themselves the right questions and taking all the steps to achieve their retirement-based goals. The book serves both as a quick reference guide and as a workbook.
--WatchBoom.com

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Hundreds of Heads Books (August 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974629278
• ISBN-13: 978-0974629278
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Looking ahead -- and back, October 9, 2006

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This review is from: How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) (Paperback)

"How to LOVE Your Retirement" is the kind of self-help book I can really enjoy. Divided into topics such as timing, finances, health issues, selection of domicile, hobbies, and adjustments at home, it is a series of vignettes, from one-liners to paragraphs, submitted by those in the business of retirement -- the retirees, themselves. The book's success is a product of the personal quality of those thoughts, many funny, some cautionary, but all insightful and enjoyable to browse. It gives those of us in retirement good ideas to mull over, and for the pre-retirement folk it offers inspiration.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful and Uplifting, September 16, 2006

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Avid Reader "Barb" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) (Paperback)

My son gave us this book as a gift and I was sure I didn't need it. Then I picked it up and got hooked. It's not your typical book. It is made up of hundreds of tips, stories and advice from many other "normal" people who have been through this same stage of life.

This book is special because it's readable, is not focused on "golden years," but the next vibrant stage in our lives, and it's practical. I walked away from a quick read with many good ideas, approaches to consider and tricks to try. It was a great gift and is an excellent book.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fresh look at retirement, October 23, 2006

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Jane Newhagen (Key West, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) (Paperback)

Has everything been said about retirement? Maybe, but a lot of it bears repeating and How to Love Your Retirement gives the subject a fresh look through the words of hundreds of retirees. It's kind of like asking friends for advice, only who has 100 or more friends to ask?

I've heard some of the advice before -- plan your finances, look after your health, and keep your mind working -- but have I always listened? Somehow it makes a difference when the words come from personal experience rather than an academic study. As far as I know, no study has come up with down home wisdom like, "The most important thing is to eat prunes," or "There is a temptation to become an alcoholic, so we have to watch that." There's a section on life coaching exercises and plenty of web site references on a variety of subjects.

I'm planning to give it to several family members who are approaching retirement age.