Things To Do Now That You Re Retired

New edition into the 'Things to do... series', packed with inspiring and original ideas and fun-filled tips and thought-provoking quotations to encourage the reader to live life to the full. A great impulse purchase! Retirement is not the end of your working years but rather the start of something new. With more time on your hands than ever before, filling your days may seem harder than you expected and can leave you wondering 'exactly what do I do now?' This book provides a wide range of upbeat suggestions on ways to luxuriate in your new-found time. Whether it is learning a new language, taking up a new hobby or simply spending more time with friends and family, this book is packed with inspirational ideas. It aims to encourage readers to make the most of their retirement, to appreciate the extra time they have to spend pursuing activities they enjoy and exploring new ones. As well as a force for encouraging you to make the most of every opportunity, this book will make suggestions for how to come to terms with yourself, your friends and your family in this new phase of your life.

The Perfect Retirement Gift, or Simply a Great Read for Anyone That Loves Life and Laughter! No more morning commute, no more idiotic bosses, no more stressful deadlines! You are now officially off the clock and the world is your oyster!

A practical action guide for financial independence and early retirement from the popular Our Next Life blogger. In today's work culture, we're expected to hustle around the clock. But what if you could escape the traditional path and get on one that doesn't require working full-time until age 65? What if you could wake up every day without an alarm clock and do the things you love most? Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist lifestyle to live their dream life in Lake Tahoe, retiring early from high-stress careers. Now Tanja will help you map out a customized plan for freedom and make it easy to succeed, whether you're good at math and budgeting -- or not! Work Optional is more than just a financial plan: it's a plan for your whole life -- designed by you, not by an employer or clients. Tanja walks you through envisioning your dream life, accounting for variables such as health care and children, protecting yourself from recessions and future unknowns, and achieving a purpose-filled early retirement, semi-retirement, or career intermission with completely doable, non-penny-pinching steps. You can live a happier, more meaningful life, free from the daily grind. Regardless of where you are in your career, Work Optionalwill get you there.

What if you didn't have to work for 35 years in order to retire? This Canadian-based guide will help you retire way earlier than you think possible. Réjean Venne and his wife left the corporate world to retire at the ages of 29 and 28. In this book, they share the strategies that helped them reduce their family expenses to under $30,000 per year and quit their jobs to become full-time parents. Their common sense approach helped them generate enough passive income to no longer rely on traditional careers, and made them millionaires by the age of 30. This unique account of a Canadian family's journey to early retirement will explore: Why you should retire, especially if you have children; How retirement doesn't have to be thirty or forty years away; How you can rapidly grow your net worth in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to achieve financial independence early; How to generate and manage passive income; How you can live a very happy and fulfilling life with plenty of travelling for less than $30,000 per year.

Ah, retirement-you've anticipated this life stage for years, but now that it's finally here, you're not quite sure what to do with it. Presenting 99 fresh ideas to keep you active and engaged, I'm Retired...Now What? is more than just a list of things to do. Written by a financial advisor who has worked with retirees for more than sixteen years, this guide helps you see your continued value and recognize the importance of living this new phase well. Organized into different categories, from physical to intellectual to spiritual, this book offers creative suggestions beyond the typical exercise, travel, and hobbies-though it does touch on these tips, as well. Discover how volunteering can energize you or a part-time job can give you a renewed sense of purpose. Find ways to spend more quality time with friends and family. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to retirement, this richly varied list gives you a place to start-and inspires you to consider what it means for you to continue pursuing an ever-expanding, joy-filled life every day. Welcome to the wonder of retirement!

NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED to reflect the changes in tax legislation, health insurance, and the new investment realities. In this “highly valuable resource” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Quinn “provides simple, straightforward” (The New York Times) solutions to the universal retirement dilemma—how to make your limited savings last for life—covering mortgages, social security, income investing, annuities, and more! Will you run out of money in your older age? That’s the biggest worry for people newly retired or planning to retire. Fortunately, you don’t have to plan in the dark. Jane Bryant Quinn tells you how to squeeze a higher income from all your assets—including your social security account (get every dollar you’re entitled to), a pension (discover whether a lump sum or a lifetime monthly income will pay you more), your home equity (sell, rent, or take a reverse mortgage?), savings (how to use them safely to raise your monthly income), retirement accounts (invest the money for growth in ways that let you sleep at night), and—critically—how much of your savings you can afford to spend every year without running out. There are easy ways to figure all this out. Who knew? Quinn also shows you how to evaluate your real risks. If you stick with super-safe investment choices, your money might not last and your lifestyle might erode. The same might be true if you rely on traditional income investments. Quinn rethinks the meaning of “income investing,” by combining reliable cash flow during the early years of your retirement with low-risk growth investments, to provide extra money for your later years. Odds are, you’ll live longer than you might imagine, meaning that your savings will stretch for many more years than you might have planned for. With the help of this book, you can turn those retirement funds into a “homemade” paycheck that will last for life.

2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST — SOCIAL/POLITICAL CHANGE • 2022 ASJA ANNUAL WRITING AWARD WINNER — SERVICE • 2022 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDALIST — SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE • 2022 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDALIST — PHILANTHROPY/NONPROFIT/SUSTAINABILITY How do we vote with our dollars, not just to make ourselves feel good, but to make a real difference? Wallet Activism challenges you to rethink your financial power so can feel confident spending, earning, and saving money in ways that align with your values. While we call the American system a democracy, capitalism is the far more powerful force in our lives. The greatest power we have—especially when political leaders won’t move quickly enough—is how we use our money: where we shop, what we buy, where we live, what institutions we entrust with our money, who we work for, and where we donate determines the trajectory of our society and our planet. While our votes and voices are essential, too, Wallet Activism helps you use your money for real impact. It can feel overwhelming to determine “the right way” to spend: a choice that might seem beneficial to the environment may have unintended consequences that hurt people. And marketers are constantly lying to you, making it hard to know what choice is best. Wallet Activism empowers us to vote with our wallets by making sense of all the information coming at us, and teaching us to cultivate a more holistic mindset that considers the complex, interrelated ecosystems of people and the planet together, not as opposing forces. From Tanja Hester, Our Next Life blogger and author of Work Optional, comes the mindset-shifting guide to help you put your money where your values are. Wallet Activism is not a list of dos and don’ts that will soon become outdated, nor does it call for anti-consumerist perfection. Instead, it goes beyond simple purchasing decisions to explore: The impacts a financial decision can have across society and the environment How to create a personal spending philosophy based on your values Practical questions to quickly assess the “goodness” of a product or an entity you may buy from The ethics of earning money, choosing what foods to eat, employing others, investing responsibly, choosing where to live, and giving money away For anyone interested in leaving the world better than you found it, Wallet Activism helps you build habits that will make your money matter.

Enjoy your newfound freedom with 101 ideas and prompts for good living in retirement . . . Ahh, retirement. Finally, you can do what you want. But it can be a little overwhelming figuring out what that is! Expand your imagination and make the most of your free time with this guided bucket list packed full of ideas and prompts for meaningful, budget-friendly, memory-making activities. Retirement is the perfect opportunity to focus on YOU, and on what’s important. Featuring 101 fun suggestions to build your hobbies, deepen your relationships, and enjoy some hard-earned leisure time, this book has something for everyone. Ideas you’ll find inside include: creativity-sparking class suggestions * inspiration to reconnect with old friends * brain-boosting challenges * delicious and healthy cooking * exciting reading recommendations * things to do for a laugh * big daring dreams * and more