New Book Taps into Hundreds of Boomers’ Heads
Revised and expanded second edition of How to Love Your Retirement is the most comprehensive collection of wisdom from real people on meeting the challenges and maximizing the opportunities, of this life stage
By Rosa Mangiardi
Just released, How to Love Your Retirement, specially edited by Barbara Waxman, a nationally recognized coach for adults, midlife and better, is the most comprehensive collection of advice from real people about dealing with retirement and getting the most out of it.
According to Waxman, the conventional notion of retirement itself should be retired, as the large wave of more than 70+ million Baby Boomers redefines its meaning. Boomers are approaching this life stage with the same zeal as they did their youth and are making retirement an opportunity to begin a new and exciting phase. Over the course of the next couple of decades, retirement will be viewed as some of the best, most productive and rewarding years of life.
But the opportunities this time offers also brings with it the challenges and anxieties of answering the questions of this modern retirement. The book How to Love Your Retirement serves to answer those questions, ranging in subjects from financial to interpersonal relationships to health, such as:
- Knowing if and when you are ready to retire
- Planning for financial independence (even if you are starting late)
- Traveling and relocating
- Learning to refocus on your spouse (and adjusting to an empty nest)
- Identifying new passions/hobbies
- Focusing on health as you age.
Dubbed ‘America’s favorite coach for adults, midlife and better’, special editor Barbara Waxman explains her inspiration for researching and editing the book: “My passion is working with people for whom the primary tasks of middle adulthood have been completed. Children may have, or almost, been raised, relationships have stayed the course, dissolved, or are on the horizon and career goals have been achieved, have been a disappointment or are still being set. The question we face is, ‘what’s next?’”
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.
How to Love Your Retirement is published by Hundreds of Heads and is available at major books stores, and online through Amazon (www.amazon.com), for $16.95. For information about Barbara Waxman, visit: http://www.theodysseygroup.net/.
