Retiring as a Career: Making the Most of Your Retirement

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Betsy Newman's Insight and Research into Retirement is Extraordinary!

Review Date: October 14, 2005

Reviewer: Robin Dziuba, Massachusetts

We have been referring to Betsy's book with our Financial Service clients to help them discover how they would like to spend their life transition into a reduced work life or complete retirement. Betsy's book gives the reader insight into how they can design their own "next phase" from a hobbies, activities and emotional perspective. The excercises and exhibits bring them through a thought process and helps design what they truly want their retirement to be, what they don't want to do and helps to frame what is typically a topic we give very little thought to on a practical level. This book is ideal for three groups- baby boomers who would like to retire early or reinvent themselves in another career or business, pre-retirees who have approx. 5-7 years before retirement and those currently in retirement who are "out of sorts" and not feeling successful. Betsy uses insights and thought provoking questions which motivate the reader to take time and give careful thought to what may be the most rewarding time of our lives, and after all, we may be spending more time in retirement than we spent in our working years....

A Great Book on Retirement -- An Nothing to Do With Money...

Review Date: December 17, 2003

Reviewer: Steven S. Shagrin, Walnut Creek, CA

I had the pleasure of reading Betsy's manuscript before the book was published. It's a wonderful explanation of the changing nature of retirement and how each one of us can make it a special, unique and meaningful experience no matter what we choose to do. Some may "retire" from retirement and become active again in the workforce, perhaps as a volunteer, perhaps for financial support. Whatever you choose, this book helps you think through your personal changes, both physical and psychological, that the transition from more work to less (or no work) may bring.

The book covers topics such as planning ahead for the social, emotional, psychological and spiritual issues; developing good "retirement skills"; relocation; emotional fulfillment; structuring your day; family and social relationships; avoiding boredom, loneliness and depression; "flunking retirement"; and more.

Most retirement books talk to you about the money side of things. This book does not. It's well written, easy to read, and would make a great gift to your favorite "pre-retiree." I know it will be well used in my lending library at Planning For Life.

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