Retirement Reimagined

Discover the Golden Years of Opportunity: Transform Your Retirement into a Vibrant New Beginning Imagine waking up each day to a life brimming with passion, purpose, and boundless opportunity. "Retirement Reimagined: The Ultimate Guide to Active and Meaningful Pathways" offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on what the golden years can truly be. Gone are the days of viewing retirement as a time for winding down. This guide illuminates the path towards a retirement replete with adventure, learning, and fulfillment. Redefining Retirement for the Modern Age, this comprehensive tome begins by challenging conventional notions, inviting you to envision a future where retirement means growth, exploration, and the pursuit of passions old and new. Through understanding the new dynamic retirement landscape, you'll be inspired to craft a personal vision that's as unique as you are. Embark on a journey of self-discovery as you explore newfound interests, hidden talents, and leisures that balance personal growth with sheer enjoyment. Retirement Reimagined guides you through cultivating a lifestyle that not only maintains physical and mental agility but nourishes them. Whether it's through volunteering, embracing the digital age, or pursuing hobbies, every chapter serves as a stepping-stone towards realising a fulfilling and active retirement. For those looking to give back, build lasting connections, or even delve into entrepreneurship, this guide covers it all. Learn how to navigate financial planning to ensure a secure, yet vibrant future. From the joys of travel and adventure to the significance of intergenerational connections and crafting your legacy, every aspect of retirement is explored with depth, sensitivity, and practical advice. Your retirement is an expansive horizon, a time of life rich with possibilities for personal development and joy. Retirement Reimagined is not just a book but a companion for anyone standing on the threshold of retirement or navigating through it, seeking to infuse their days with meaning and excitement. Step into your retirement with confidence and joy, knowing the best years are still ahead, waiting to be seized and celebrated. Embark on this transformative journey and embrace the opportunity to live your retirement years as you have always dreamed. The time to start is now.

Americans are crazy about retirement. Everywhere we look there are books, articles, and websites dedicated to the subject—most of which are about how to get there fast, and how to enjoy it when you’re there. In this book, Chris Cagle, himself a recent retiree, challenges us to reimagine retirement from a distinctly Christian perspective. In the process, he will challenge our typical view of retirement as the ultimate reward for a life of hard work by asking key questions: What does the Bible have to say, if anything, about retirement? What would a God-honoring and glorifying retirement look like? If retirement is probable for most of us, how should we plan for it as wise stewards of the resources God has entrusted to our care? In Reimagine Retirement, Chris answers these and other questions to help us construct a vision of retirement that reflects the values, priorities, and purposes that are most important to God.

Retirement today is a lot more complex than the retirement of our parents and grandparents. Our expectations for what we want out of life are different from previous generations. We see more possibilities, but we also face more pitfalls and hurdles. We want to not only live longer but live better. We want to enjoy today but must prepare for many tomorrows. We don't want our lives to stop now that our careers no longer define us. We feel capable of doing so many things with our time and life experience. We don't see why we should not keep pushing ahead by learning and experiencing new things and challenging ourselves to keep growing, rather than just wilting away with diminished expectations. Whether you are newly retired or simply in the early stages of planning, the possibilities for what you want to do in the future are endless. As our choices have expanded, we are often left more confused and stressed. More choices imply more decisions and responsibility but Eric J. Weigel shows that the solution to finding joy and fulfillment in the sea of complexity and confusion that characterizes today's retirement world is to start with what you want and then work backward. It involves becoming completely clear about your vision for your Future Self-who you want to be, what you aspire to, and what type of life you want to lead, all in alignment with your core values and beliefs. The clearer you are about your Future Self, the less distracted you'll be with today's complex and endless options. You'll know where you want to go and plan accordingly. You'll deal with today's complexity and the vast range of choices by, ironically, rejecting the majority of possible paths you could take. Your focus will be your strength. In this book, you'll learn how to formulate the vision of your Future Self by combining your values, beliefs, aspirations, and purpose for why this is your chosen destiny. Your Future Self answers your what and why. Along with your vision of your Future Self, you'll need a system for creating the change you want. The 9 Keys to True Wealth encapsulated in the NET WEALTH system cover all major areas of your life. It starts with the traditional drivers of retirement planning-where you live (your NEST), your money situation (EARNINGS), and how you spend your TIME. It then focuses on the other areas of your life that can truly turbo-charge your happiness and fulfillment: sharing your knowledge and experience (WORK), regulating your emotions (EMOTIONAL ENERGY), pursuing meaningful goals (ACHIEVEMENTS), growing spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually (LEARNING), remaining engaged deeply in the lives of family and friends (TRIBE), and staying physically and mentally fit (HEALTH). By designing your own version of your Future Self and adopting the NET WEALTH system you will make more informed and intentional decisions. You'll turn lack of clarity, indecision, and uncertainty into a vision for your life and give you actionable steps for finding happiness and fulfillment. This book is for you if you are ready to take control of a future that: Transforms you from where you are today to where you want to go Unlocks possibilities rather than constraints Looks beyond money Brings joy and fulfillment to your life

A chapter in your life is drawing to a close. The Golden Years of retirement lie ahead, but the idea of a 'retiring life' doesn't inspire your vision of a fulfilling life. What will a life of meaning, purpose and passion look like as you enter this 'Third Act' of life? Aging Reimagined provides a guide for exploring these questions.

A practical guide to successfully navigating big life changes faced during middle age and later. Are you at a point in your life where you're asking, “What’s next?” You’ve finished one chapter and you have yet to write the next one. Many of us face these transitions at midlife, but they can happen at any point. It’s a time full of enormous potential, and it defines a whole new phase of life. It’s called Life Reimagined. Here is your map to guide you in this new life phase. You can use the powerful practices and insights to help you uncover your own special gifts, connect with people who can support you, and explore new directions. You’ll be inspired by meeting ordinary people who have reimagined their lives in extraordinary ways. You’ll also read the stories of pioneers of the Life Reimagined movement such as Jane Pauley, James Brown, and Emilio Estefan. They show us that this journey of discovery can help us find fulfillment in surprising new places. One of the profound truths that underlies this book is the liberating notion that each of us is “an experiment of one,” free to find our own path in this new phase of our lives. No old rules, no outdated societal norms, no boundaries of convention or expectation. Let Life Reimagined help you discover your new life possibilities! Winner of the 2014 Silver Nautilus Award

Think of it as the most significant social story of our time: We are witnessing the arrival of a whole new stage of life. Today we're seeing people reach what used to be the ''age of retirement'' and convert it into the ''age of possibilities.'' The authors call it ''Life Reimagined.'' What those two words suggest is a new stage of life and-perhaps more importantly - a new way of thinking about life and living. At its core, Life Reimagined calls on each of us to engage life with a profound sense of what is possible, what is desirable, and what is personally meaningful. One of the profound truths that under lies Life Reimagined is the liberating notion that ''each of us is an experiment of one'': in other words, each of us is free to find our own way forward on this journey of discovery. But another truth is that there is a set of six practices-ways of engaging with Life Reimagined-that can help each of us find that way forward. The six practices are: Reflect, Connect, Explore, Choose, Repack, and, Act. Life Reimagined offers the opportunity for each of us to grow - not just older, but grow more whole, more healthy, and more uniquely ourselves.

“A guide for planning that rich season of life, based not just on money, but also on how to create meaningful relationships, memories, and legacy.” —Dan Miller, author of 48 Days to the Work You Love Rock Retirement offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy the journey to retirement to its fullest. Traditional retirement advice usually boils down to saving more, sacrificing more, and settling for less. This approach makes people dependent on systems outside their control, such as the market, economy, and investment returns. The result: people lose power over determining their life. What sets Rock Retirement apart is its holistic approach to helping people take back control and act intentionally towards the life they want. It addresses the fears, hopes, and dreams that people have about retirement, goes way beyond the numbers, and shows them how to balance living well today and tomorrow. “Too many books think retirement is just about finances. Instead, retirement is about looking at life in full and working out what it is you want to do and then turning to finances to make it happen. That’s exactly the focus of the practical and helpful guide.” —Andrew Scott, coauthor of The 100-Year Life “Roger Whitney lays out a plan for today’s modern retiree. If you are exhausted with being fed that retirement is the end game of life, then Roger’s book is a must-read!” —Darryl W. Lyons, author of 18 to 80 “If you’re dreaming of a retirement free of worry, chao and confusion, Rock Retirement will give you the clarity, a solid plan and fresh inspiration to help you get where you want to go.” —Jevonnah “Lady J” Ellison, author of Love Letters for Leading Ladies

Baby Boomer women are the first generation of women to retire from professional career roles. These women were uniquely born into a generation known for breaking down traditional societal barriers and searching for personal fulfillment. They pioneered their entrance into the male-dominated professional workplace and persevered to levels of unprecedented success. These are strong, bright women. So why wouldn’t retirement be an easy transition for them? Unfortunately, these trailblazing women are ill prepared for the psychological challenges of retirement, and there are no roadmaps and few female role models to guide them. Dr. Rita Smith interviewed over 200 Baby Boomer professional women, and found a common experience among them—being unprepared for “retirement shock.” Empty Nest, Empty Desk, What’s Next? shares these women’s stories, their challenges, and their successes. The book also includes a Boomer Retirement Re-Imagined Roadmap© which, along with interactive exercises, provide the missing guidance and support to help Baby Boomer professional women reinvent a retirement that works!