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The Beginner's Guide to Retirement – Take Control of Your Future

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At last – a retirement guide that deals with more than just the financial aspects of life after work!
The Beginner's Guide for Retirement will teach you how to live a happy, comfortable retirement. Written by renowned psychologist Michael Longhurst, it will show you in six easy-to-manage sections the best ways to prepare yourself for life-changing experience of retirement.
Many people live for their retirement, but many others dread it. There is no doubt that it can present an enormously stressful turning point in people's lives. Using the practical advice in The Beginner's Guide to Retirement, you can reduce that stress and turn your retirement into the time of opportunity you really hope it will be.
The Beginner's Guide to Retirement will take you through the six preparation stages for a long, healthy and happy retirement:

  • Achieving personal fulfilment
  • Maintaining happy relationships
  • Enjoying a healthy diet and exercise
  • Preserving psychological fitness
  • Learning about the importance of personality and cross-skilling
  • Managing your money
  • The Beginner's Guide to Retirement exposes the numerous myths that surround this time of our lives and explains why so many people are unprepared for it. It examines important areas of life usually overlooked when planning retirement, providing advice on relationships with partners and family, skills in conflict resolution, dealing with issues such as loss, and most importantly, living a full and happy life in retirement. The final chapter deals with one of the most powerful factors influencing retirement-based anxiety, that of maintaining financial stability and maximising existing financial circumstances.
    Using a combination of checklists, personal anecdotes, question-and-answer sections and action plans, The Beginner's Guide to Retirement lays out exactly what you need to do to ensure a successful, stress-free retirement.
    The Beginner's Guide to Retirement is an invaluable survival tool for coping with retirement – planning for it, getting the most out of it and enjoying it stress-free! Unlock the secrets to a happy, comfortable retirement and take control of the rest of your life.
    'Longhurst's interest is in the total experience of retiring – physical, emotional and financial. It is the way he sows these disparate themes together that makes the guide a must-read for [anyone] approaching retirement.'
    Bill Fenns, moneymanagement.com.au

    The Beginner's Guide to Retirement: Table of ContentsIntroduction
    SECTION I: Personal fulfilment and growth in retirement
  • Remaining challenged and involved

  • SECTION II: Maintaining and managing relationships
  • Communicating effectively within relationships
  • Assertiveness skills—getting your rights without stress
  • Resolving conflict and negotiating good deals
  • Maintaining close relationships with your partner and friends
  • Contributing and belonging

  • SECTION III: Enjoying a long, happy retirement
  • Regular exercise
  • A healthy diet
  • Medical check-ups—they may save your life!

  • SECTION IV: Maintaining psychological fitness
  • Anxiety, depression and stress
  • Building and maintaining self-esteem
  • Understanding grief and loss
  • Ending loneliness

  • SECTION V: The impact of personality and the need to cross-skill
  • How personality affects your life in retirement
  • Cross-skilling in relationships

  • SECTION VI: Managing money and...

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    Publisher: Gill & Macmillan

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    • ISBN: 9780717164011
    • Release date: July 27, 2001

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    • ISBN: 9780717164011
    • File size: 923 KB
    • Release date: July 27, 2001

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    At last – a retirement guide that deals with more than just the financial aspects of life after work!
    The Beginner's Guide for Retirement will teach you how to live a happy, comfortable retirement. Written by renowned psychologist Michael Longhurst, it will show you in six easy-to-manage sections the best ways to prepare yourself for life-changing experience of retirement.
    Many people live for their retirement, but many others dread it. There is no doubt that it can present an enormously stressful turning point in people's lives. Using the practical advice in The Beginner's Guide to Retirement, you can reduce that stress and turn your retirement into the time of opportunity you really hope it will be.
    The Beginner's Guide to Retirement will take you through the six preparation stages for a long, healthy and happy retirement:

  • Achieving personal fulfilment
  • Maintaining happy relationships
  • Enjoying a healthy diet and exercise
  • Preserving psychological fitness
  • Learning about the importance of personality and cross-skilling
  • Managing your money
  • The Beginner's Guide to Retirement exposes the numerous myths that surround this time of our lives and explains why so many people are unprepared for it. It examines important areas of life usually overlooked when planning retirement, providing advice on relationships with partners and family, skills in conflict resolution, dealing with issues such as loss, and most importantly, living a full and happy life in retirement. The final chapter deals with one of the most powerful factors influencing retirement-based anxiety, that of maintaining financial stability and maximising existing financial circumstances.
    Using a combination of checklists, personal anecdotes, question-and-answer sections and action plans, The Beginner's Guide to Retirement lays out exactly what you need to do to ensure a successful, stress-free retirement.
    The Beginner's Guide to Retirement is an invaluable survival tool for coping with retirement – planning for it, getting the most out of it and enjoying it stress-free! Unlock the secrets to a happy, comfortable retirement and take control of the rest of your life.
    'Longhurst's interest is in the total experience of retiring – physical, emotional and financial. It is the way he sows these disparate themes together that makes the guide a must-read for [anyone] approaching retirement.'
    Bill Fenns, moneymanagement.com.au

    The Beginner's Guide to Retirement: Table of ContentsIntroduction
    SECTION I: Personal fulfilment and growth in retirement
  • Remaining challenged and involved

  • SECTION II: Maintaining and managing relationships
  • Communicating effectively within relationships
  • Assertiveness skills—getting your rights without stress
  • Resolving conflict and negotiating good deals
  • Maintaining close relationships with your partner and friends
  • Contributing and belonging

  • SECTION III: Enjoying a long, happy retirement
  • Regular exercise
  • A healthy diet
  • Medical check-ups—they may save your life!

  • SECTION IV: Maintaining psychological fitness
  • Anxiety, depression and stress
  • Building and maintaining self-esteem
  • Understanding grief and loss
  • Ending loneliness

  • SECTION V: The impact of personality and the need to cross-skill
  • How personality affects your life in retirement
  • Cross-skilling in relationships

  • SECTION VI: Managing money and...

    Expand title description text