Too Young to Retire

Based on the popular website www.2young2retire.com, Too Young to Retire offers inventive and exciting retirement alternatives to help readers find their labors of love, inner activists, or how to make a home away from home. Enlightening exercises and workbook pages as well as a comprehensive list of publications, home exchange organizations, and websites are included to assist readers in making meaningful choices. For those who aren’t ready to throw in the towel, Too Young to Retire is the essential resource for discovering what comes next.

Authentic Happiness

In this national bestseller — Martin Seligman’s most stimulating, persuasive book to date — the acclaimed author of Learned Optimism introduces yet another revolutionary idea. Drawing on groundbreaking scientific research, Seligman shows how Positive Psychology is shifting the profession’s paradigm away from its narrow-minded focus on pathology, victimology, and mental illness to positive emotion and mental health. Happiness, studies show, is not the result of good genes or luck. It can be cultivated by identifying and nurturing traits that we already possess — including kindness, originality, humor, optimism, and generosity.

Retirement Is for Sissies: Or How I Survived My Job

You’ve got the 401k, the back porch overlooking a pond stocked with bass, the grandkids, the wife, sunrises and sunsets, so what do you do now? The only constant you need worry about is time. No more eight am meetings, traffic gridlock, stained white shirts from leaky pens, spam emails, and cute greeting cards reminding you that you’re a year older. You sit on the back porch with your wife of forty years sippin’ on Starbucks dark roasted Columbia blend as the sun casts an orange hue over the pond rippling with large-mouth bass enjoying the morning cool air in the Sandia Mountains. Route 66 and Albuquerque can be seen in the distance as the purple shadows grow shorter and the morning dew evaporates from the Yaupon on your five-acre spread.

Looking Forward: An Optimist’s Guide to Retirement

Ellen Freudenheim has written the perfect guide for people who want to make the most out of their post-retirement life. Whether you’ve always dreamed ot traveling, starting a new career, or becoming a late-in-life athlet, Looking Forward will help you figure it all out.”

How to Retire Happy Wild and Free

Retirement does not have to mean the end of life—in fact it can mean a whole new beginning to the life you never had time to explore. In HOW TO RETIRE HAPPY, WILD, AND FREE, best-selling author Ernie J. Zelinksi shows that the key to enjoying an active and satisfying retirement is dependent on much more than just having adequate financial resources. It means paying attention to all aspects of life, including leisure activities, creative pursuits, physical and mental well-being, and solid social support. With its friendly format, lively cartoons, and captivating quotations, Zelinski’s guide offers inspirational advice on how to follow your dreams instead of someone else’s, how to put your retirement in proper perspective, and how to enjoy life after work.

Don’t Retire, REWIRE

Working after retirement is one of the fastest-growing trends in the American workplace. A 1998 AARP survey of more than 2,000 adults age 33 to 52 found that 80 percent plan to work at least part-time during their retirement. You just may be part of that majority– but the last thing you want to do is the same work you’ve been doing all your life. In a word, you’re looking to REWIRE– to channel your energy and experience into work situations that are both financially and personally rewarding– whether it’s a part-time job, volunteer work, or a second career. Don’t Retire, Rewire! helps you determine what kind of work suits your interests and then guides you through the process of finding a position with the hours, challenges, and rewards you want. With plenty of practical how-to content, this book also offers you stories and lessons from more than 300 real-life retirees.

My Time:  making the most of the Bonus Decades AFTER FIFTY

Kids grown? Mortgage paid? Career topping out? What now? In My Time, best-selling author Abigail Trafford answers the questions more and more 50-somethings are asking themselves. Thanks to the longevity revolution of recent decades, today’s 55- to75-year-olds are living and working longer and healthier than ever before. This generation is the first to experience the period of personal renaissance in between middle and old age-what Trafford calls “My Time.” Defining this period as a whole new developmental stage in the life cycle, Trafford skillfully guides readers through the obstacles of My Time and offers them the opportunity to take full advantage of the bonus decades. With the same wit, compassion, and vivid storytelling that made Crazy Time one of the best-loved books ever written on the subject of divorce, Trafford blends personal stories with expert opinions and the latest research on adult development. From the psychoanalyst who gave up his practice to write self-help books, to the widowed mother of three who reinvented herself as a successful photographer, true tales of crisis and triumph sparkle on every page of this inspiring and insightful book. Like Gail Sheehy’s Passages, My Time profoundly impacts the journey through our adult years.

Now What?  90 Days to New Life Direction

A clear and utterly practical 90-day program for discovering a new direction for your life

In Now What? pioneering life coach Laura Berman Fortgang shares the process that she has used so successfully to help hundreds of clients make major changes in their lives. Whether it’s moving on from a dead end job, discovering an entirely new creative outlet, or answering the age old question “What am I meant to do with my life?” this book provides a clear and infinitely practical 90-day program that can help you make major changes in your life.

For anyone who feels drawn toward a life-changing move but is not sure exactly what to do or how to move forward, Now What? provides a concrete process for finding and pursuing a new path in life. Full of inspiring and empowering exercises and tools, this book guides readers-day by day and step by step-through a 90-day process that will lead to true life satisfaction and fulfillment.

1000 Places to See Before You Die : A Traveler’s Life List

Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books, the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed by CBS-TV as one of the best books of the year and praised by Newsweek as the “book that tells you what’s beautiful, what’s inspiring, what’s fun and what’s just unforgettable everywhere on earth.”

Packed with recommendations of the world’s best places to visit, on and off the beaten path, 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE is a joyous, passionate gift for travelers, an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of beaches, museums, monuments, islands, inns, restaurants, mountains, and more. There’s Botswana’s Okavango Delta, the covered souks of Aleppo, the Tuscan hills surrounding San Gimignano, Canyon de Chelly, the Hassler hotel in Rome, Ipanema Beach, the backwaters of Kerala, Oaxaca’s Saturday market, the Buddhas of Borobudur, Ballybunion golf club-all the places guaranteed to give you the shivers.

The prose is gorgeous, seizing on exactly what makes each entry worthy of inclusion. And, following the romance, the nuts and bolts: addresses, phone and fax numbers, web sites, costs, and best times to visit.

The 4-Hour Work Week

Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years–a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with a whole new way of living. Readers can lead a rich life by working only four hours a week, freeing up the rest of their time to spend it living the lives they want.

Live Long and Prosper

Retirement has been dramatically changing over the past 20 years because of economics, demographics and politics. Employees have had to increasingly rely on their savings and 401(k) plans instead of old-fashioned company defined pension plans. In addition, people are living longer, more active retirements–and less likely to just sit around but eager to work, without jeopardizing their savings and health benefits. This book will address the specific financial concerns but also explore ways readers can plan for healthy, active retirement lifestyles.

101 Secrets for a Great Retirement

More than 5,000 people retire every day–yet there have been no retirement books that are both informative and motivational until now. 101 Secrets for a Great Retirement encourages and inspires retirees to simplify their lives and pursue their dreams. The authors cover all the essential topics, including health, social life, relationships, financial matters, legal issues, and more.

How to Retire Happy

How to Retire Happy provides answers to all your complicated retirement questions. From Social Security and Medicare to long term care insurance and estate planning, Stan covers all the bases.

For Better or for Worse, but Not for Lunch

The only guide to overcoming the psychological stresses that can ruin a marriage after retirement People are retiring earlier and wealthier than ever before. Why then are so many retired couples, instead of having the times of their lives together, becoming so angry, alienated, and estranged? Written by a psychologist specializing in work-family issues, For Better or for Worse. . . But Not for Lunch explores this troubling trend and provides readers with the information and tools they need to make their relationships thrive in retirement.

Defying Gravity

Every day, regular women are accomplishing extraordinary things later in life. Prill Boyle gathered the encouraging stories of twelve daring and determined women who accomplished incredible things at an age when most people are beginning to wind down.

Navigating Midlife: Women Becoming Themselves

This powerful, insightful book offers women vital possibilities for meaningful and profound change in how they choose to live the second half of their lives. Addressing those women 35 and over who are at a crossroads and questioning the multiple aspects of their lives-job, marriage, children-it offers strategies to help them find out what they actually want to do with the next part of their lives and how to achieve their goals. With deep understanding and practical wisdom, it illustrates why it is normal to suffer depression, anger, loss, and doubt in midlife, and emphasizes the importance of embracing these turbulent feelings, rather than ignoring or running away from them. Through shared personal stories, metaphor, dreams, and reflections, and based on a sound psychological framework, women are given a map, complete with all the signposts, to choose their own unique path to a second half of life full of personal meaning, new passions, youthfulness, and creativity.

Smart Women Finish Rich

Whether you start with a few dollars a week, a small savings account, or a huge inheritance, you can finish rich by putting your money where your values are and taking Bach’s straightforward advice for the 21st-century woman.

Secrets of Six Figure Women

Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success.

In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker,and financial educator, identifies the seven key strategies of female highearners: A Profit Motive, Audacity, Resilience, Encouragement, Self-Awareness, Non-attachment, and Financial Know-How.

Women Confronting Retirement

In 35 reflections, women who have challenged traditional career models share their diverse experiences and thoughts on when/if to retire and stages of retirement. Two New York academics, one retired, introduce issues and influences on this new dialogue on redefining female identity beyond the workplace.

If Not Now, When?

Marston helps women navigate what is one of the most powerful and extraordinary stages in lifemidlife.In one of the first books to address the spiritual, emotional, and psychological dimensions of midlife and the challenge of this transition for women, Stephanie Marston, acts as a midwife to make this rite of passage meaningful and transformative. The empowering message of this book is clear: midlife offers women an opportunity for rebirth and renewal and can be one of the most profoundly significant times in a womans life.

For My Next Act

In For My Next Act . . . Karen Baar looks at the challenges and opportunities facing women as they struggle to come to grips with their own mortality, unrealized dreams, the myth of the empty nest, aging parents, and raging hormones. Using her own highly personal and emotional story as a jumping off point, and weaving in the personal stories of dozens of midlife women with interviews of medical, psychological, and social experts, she compares and contrasts life before and after 50, offering readers a clear-eyed perspective on the way life changes for women as their roles and relationships evolve.

Living Your Best Life

In Living Your Best Life, Fortang offers ten tried-and-true strategies to help you gain access to your own inner knowledge. She explains how to:

• “Get over yourself” in order to bring forth your deepest wishes in such a way that you can’t help acting on them.
• Determine what needs to stay or go in your relationships, work, finances, and physical environment in order to nuture you, not deplete you.
• Create circumstances in your life by which great luck can find you.

By focusing on what you really want instead of frenetically trying to have it all, you will learn to ask questions that move your forward to discover your own unique “lucrative purpose,” and to design a “magnet” life plan that draws to you the more rewarding existence you deserve.

Secrets of Midlife Mom

A first-time mother in her mid thirties, Jane Jarrell speaks from the heart about the unique experiences of a mid-life mom–all while keeping a vigorous sense of humor. In Secrets of a Mid-Life Mom, she tackles universal issues such as self-esteem, fear of the future, career choices, and spirituality. Using what she calls a “written talk-show format,” Jane encourages moms of all ages to enjoy every challenging minute of motherhood.

Flying Solo: Single Women in Midlife

This collection of stories by never-married, divorced, and widowed women in midlife across the country, offers blueprints for living as well as inspiration for other women “flying solo, ” encouraging them to make their own choices about their lives, their beliefs, and their hopes, defining not just a new American lifestyle, but a new American dream.

Awakening at Midlife

Awakening at Midlife will help readers navigate successfully through the middle stage of life: the search for wholeness, the emergence of unconscious desires, the coming to terms with loss and mortality. Translating Carl Jung’s ideas and insights into language familiar to the general reader, and using examples from her own and others’ experiences in midlife, Brehony shows how this critical and sometimes dangerous stage of human development can lead the way to a richer life. At a time when the American population is becoming increasingly middle-aged, her book will give hope to many.