Table of Contents
from
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free
Retirement Wisdom That You Won't
Get
from Your Financial
Advisor
Preface
Chapter 1: Thank Heaven for
Retirement!
- Perhaps it’s time to tell your boss,“I’m outta
here!”
- Retirement should put a perpetual smile on your
face
- To not plan for an active retirement is to set
yourself up for a difficult one
- You are never too young to retire
- Retiring too late means you don’t get another
chance to do it right
- You can have your retirement cake and eat it
too
- A major dilemma: life is short - and so is
money
- If deep down you know you are ready, “just do
it!”
Chapter 2: Retirement: A Time to
Become Much More than You Have Ever Been
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Retirement can set you free
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To have no aptitude for leisure is to have no
aptitude for life
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Create a new identity because your old one
won’t do
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Being on purpose is easy if you have one
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Finding and pursuing your true calling can make
retirement the best time of your life
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Work at something that is not so much a job,
but a fun thing to do
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Reclaiming your creative spirit will put joyful
purpose into your retirement life
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Not writing a book can be more difficult than
writing one
Chapter 3: So Many Worlds, So Much
to Do!
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To be bored is to retire from life
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Plant your Get-a-Life Tree and watch it grow
and grow
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You don't have to watch one minute of TV when
you retire - and perhaps you shouldn’t
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of sitting
around
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Create new structures and routines with your
leisure
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a person
dull, boring, and despised
Chapter 4: Take Special Care of
Yourself - Because No One Else Will!
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You too can exercise your right to a healthy
and happy retirement
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Obesity is getting too widespread - avoid it if
you can
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If you don’t take care of your body, where do
you intend to live?
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The shortcut to being truly fit and trim is
long-term rigorous action
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An active walk in nature is the best medicine
for many of your ailments
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Your mind needs a good run too
Chapter 5: Learning Is for
Life
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Commit yourself to being a lifelong learner and
your life will never be without purpose
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Become a college drop-in and stay more engaged
in life
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Take a joy course for personal growth,
self-development, and lifelong learning
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Work on a university degree and experience a
sense of belonging with younger people
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It’s more fun to be wired than not
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Elder hostel will help you discover the world
Chapter 6: Your Wealth Is Where
Your Friends Are
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Above all, friends make life complete
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Two or three real friends are worth more than a
hundred superficial ones
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You can’t wait at home to be discovered
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Keep active and enjoy yourself while looking
for love
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You grow most when you are alone
Chapter 7: Travel for Fun,
Adventure, and More
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Take yourself out of your element and inspire
yourself with new insights
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Spend all the money that you can on travel if
travel really turns you on
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Tips on how to enhance your next journey
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Use the Internet to make your travel adventures
affordable and enjoyable
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Travel with a difference
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Implement something unique into your next trek
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Become an ecotourist
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You don't have to be rich to spend a month or
two in a warmer climate
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Enjoy yourself in a myriad of ways at a
recreational vehicle retirement resort
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Why travel alone when you don't have to?
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Swap your house for a neat pad in some faraway
paradise
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Try a working vacation for a more satisfying
traveling experience
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Journey close to home and do the things that an
out-of-town tourist might do
Chapter 8: Relocate to Where
Retirement Living Is Best
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Live somewhere else and do what you have always
wanted to do
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Consider moving to a college town
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The secret to a really wonderful retired
lifestyle
Chapter 9: Happiness Doesn’t Care
How You Get There t
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Retirement is not a time to sleep, but a time
to awaken to the beauty of the world around you
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Celebrate your eccentricity and you will be set
free
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If money can buy happiness, then why aren't you
selling some of yours?
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You will overlook the silver lining if you are
always expecting gold
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Be happy while you are alive because you are a
long time dead
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It's better to live rich than to die rich
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Helping others can make life more worthwhile
and you happier than you have ever been
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Forget how old you are - this becomes more
important the older you get
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Don’t leave this world with songs unsung that
you would like to sing
From
Scott Burns, Retirement
Columnist
Dallas Morning
News
|
While all that retirement money that may go
to worthy causes - such as making their
Mercedes payments, providing their children
with beautiful teeth that glow in the dark and
liberating their expensive wine from its glass
prison so it can find its way back into the
water supply - our best defense is to remember
that life isn't just about money.
The latest retirement book in this realm is
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get
From Your Financial
Adviser by Ernie J.
Zelinski. This book follows on his earlier
The Joy of Not
Working, whose title
gives you an idea of his central theme.
Trust me - there are books about investing
and personal finance that are far more
complicated. But few are more accessible,
useful and meaningful.
- Scott Burns,
Retirement
Columnist
Dallas Morning
News
|
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