《I Want To Retire! Essential Considerations for the Retiree to Be》Dave Bernard

《I Want To Retire! Essential Considerations for the Retiree to Be》

Who among us does not long for the day when we will finally quit our job and begin a new life in retirement, free to do what we have always wanted to do? 

But if we expect to just magically arrive at that picture perfect retirement without planning or preparation, we may be in for a nasty surprise. A fulfilling retirement does not just happen.

I Want To Retire! builds upon the honest, often passionate and always candid thoughts complied from thousands of comments by retirement blogs readers. Having traveled the path to retirement, who is better qualified to address those essential considerations that every retiree-to-be will ultimately need to confront.

Learn from their experiences, benefit from their acquired wisdom and try to avoid their mistakes as you ponder for yourself those most essential pieces of the retirement puzzle to prepare for your own retirement.

In just fourteen short chapters Dave Bernard again is the cheerleader for the reader as he or she approaches retirement.  I've followed Bernard's blog, Retirement-Only the Beginning for about a year and find this book condenses a long series of blogs about retirement into essential topics. The ultimate goal of the book is to help the future retiree find his passion.

What is on your list?  Read Dave Bernard's "I Want to Retire!" and use it as a guide to create passion and meaning in your retirement years. ~ Warren Lieberman, author of 65 and Alive 

I heartily recommend Dave Bernard's I WANT TO RETIRE! It's a practical handbook that shines at raising the non-financial retirement questions everyone needs to answer. A positive, matter-of-fact tone prevails throughout. My favorite pages were simply lists of questions to help the reader discover personal truths about him- or herself, to help design a retirement life that suits. Be sure to add this book to your retirement bookshelf. ~ Andy Landis, author of Social Security: The Inside Story

I particularly appreciated that the book puts the focus on the psychological aspects of retirement rather than the financial aspects--there are plenty of books that cover that already. Because the author is also contemplating retirement he appears to be especially suited to asking lots of questions about what is to come--and then providing a decent amount of answers to those questions to help guide us readers to find our own. ~ Kathy Gottberg, Author, Writer, Adventurer.