Your Retirement Masterplan, 2nd Edition: How to Ensure You Have a Fulfilling and Enjoyable Third Age Paperback - 2007

Shows you how to turn retirement into a new lease of life. This book offers tried and tested templates which you can adjust according to your own inclinations and needs to produce a master plan for a successful and rewarding journey into the third age. It shows how to set new goals, learn something new, participate in volunteer work, and more.
When you retire, you'll have 45-50 a hours week of extra free time. Even the most absorbing hobbies and interests are unlikely to fill that gap. If a job is what gave you your life structure, you'll need to replace that structure in retirement. Your happiness depends on understanding your own needs and structuring both time and activity to meet those needs. People's definitions of a successful retirement will differ. If you have financial freedom, you may want to get the most out of your new found leisure time, pursue new interests or hobbies, and maybe do some voluntary work. For others, it may be an opportunity to start your own business or a new career. Whatever your goal, retirement needs careful planning in order to make it a fulfilling and rewarding phase of your life. This book shows you how to turn retirement into a new lease of life. You'll find tried and tested templates which you can adjust according to your own inclinations and needs to produce a master plan for a successful and rewarding journey into the third age. It shows: how to set goals for your new way of life; why it's never too late to learn something new; how the internet can open new vistas; how volunteer or part-time work can be beneficial; participating in volunteer work; taking the hobby route to self-actualisation; starting a business for fun or profit; toning up for a healthy lifestyle; and, how to get the best out of travel in retirement.
REVIEWS:
"'I finished reading this book at 4am this morning and felt I had to write and say thank you for such a detailed guide to retirement. I shall read the book again and recommend it to my friends.' A reader from Northumberland"
AUTHOR BIOG:
Jim Green created his own retirement masterplan when he retired a few years ago. Now in his seventies he enjoys runs his own internet business. He is based in Glasgow.
CONTENTS:
1. The secret of the three little boxes
2. Identifying the keys to a happy and successful retirement
3. How to set goals for your new way of life
4. Why it's never too late to learn something new
5. Why getting up to speed in cyberspace opens up new vistas
6. Why keeping your hand in part time can prove beneficial
7. Why many retirees opt to start a business for fun or profit
8. Participating in volunteer work
9. Why writing up your experiences can benefit others
10. Taking the hobby route to self-actualisation
11. Toning up for a healthy lifestyle
12. Getting the best out of travel in retirement
13. Monitoring progress using an audit checklist
14. Devising the masterplan that keeps on evolving
15. Keeping right on in the third age years.