65 Things to Do When You Retire. More Than 65 Notable Achievers on How to Make the Most of the Rest of Your Life

263 Pages·2013·1.62 MB·English

by  Mark Evan Chimsky

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CONTENTS
Introduction
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Redefining Retirement
Robert Delamontagne ♦ Don’t Let Retirement Steal Your Bliss!
Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners ♦ Rewire® Early and Often
Michael Jeans ♦ Retire “Retirement”… Build Your “Life Portfolio” Instead
David C. Borchard, Ed.D., NCC ♦ New Models for Success
Ronald J. Manheimer, Ph.D. ♦ Five Keys to a Creative Retirement: Even
When This Means Continuing to Work
Nancy K. Schlossberg, Ed.D. ♦ Will You Pass or Flunk Retirement?
Women of VibrantNation.com ♦ Women 50+ Know: How to Redefine
Retirement
Andrew Carle ♦ Change the World
Mort Gerberg ♦ A Cartoon
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Your Retirement Game Plan
Sydney Lagier ♦ What Happy Retirees Know
Bill Roiter, Ed.D. ♦ 65 and Lucky
Mary Lloyd ♦ Trump Fear with Purpose
Mike Bonacorsi ♦ There’s More to Retirement Planning Than Finances
Susan Kersley ♦ Retirement Is an Opportunity to Rethink Your Life and Do
Something Different
Dr. Thomas T. Perls ♦ Live to 100!
Dave Bernard ♦ Positive Aging — Old Is the New Young
Susan RoAne ♦ Expand Your Social Circle — Face to Face
Helen Dennis and Bernice Bratter ♦ Career Women and Retirement: Six
Important Tips
Judy Juricek ♦ Women and Retirement: Inventory Your Successes
Elizabeth Doucet ♦ Choices
Anna Rappaport, F.S.A., M.A.A.A. ♦ Budget for 100 Years
Mark Cussen, CFP, CMFC ♦ Seven Financial Rules for Retirees
Jim Yih ♦ What to Look for in Financial Advisers
Julie Jason ♦ Managing Retirement Wealth without a Crystal Ball
Aaron W. Smith, RFC ♦ Four Emotions to Manage When Maintaining
Your Nest Egg
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Do Good By Giving Back
Jimmy Carter ♦ The Best Years of Our Lives
Bob Lowry ♦ Enrich Your Life: Push Back Against the Box
Bill Birnbaum ♦ A New Dimension to Our Lives
Peter and Hinda Schnurman ♦ Somewhere in the World with Peter and
Hinda
Pamela Good ♦ Embrace Life
Michael Adams ♦ For LGBT Retirees and Their Allies, Volunteer
Opportunities Abound!
Mary S. Bleiberg ♦ Retire and ReServe: Because You Should
Mark Miller ♦ The Encore Career
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How Working in Retirement Can Work for You
Kerry Hannon ♦ What’s Next? Finding Your Dream Job in Retirement
Joan Jones ♦ How to Turn a Hobby into Retirement Income
Art Koff ♦ Starting a Home-Based Business in Retirement
Nancy Collamer, M.S. ♦ Six Ways to Get Paid to Travel During
Retirement
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A New Freedom to Be Yourself
John E. Nelson ♦ Why You Need to Know What Color is Your
Parachute? for Retirement
Jack Phelps, ChFC ♦ Don’t Let It Take a Crisis
Gloria Steinem ♦ Doing 60
Rick Kimball ♦ Turning 65: Minding Your Ps and Qs and Rs
Joan Price ♦ Lessons from Grief
Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. ♦ “Doing” Resilience: A Virtual Ritual of
Transformation
Jane Fonda ♦ Act III: Becoming Whole
Leo Sewell ♦ Question Everything
Liz Pryor ♦ Saving the Best for Last!
Tina B. Tessina, Ph.d. ♦ Ask the Big Questions
Ernie J. Zelinski ♦ Be Happy While You Are Alive Because You Are a
Long Time Dead!
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Family Matters
Dorian Mintzer, M.S.W., Ph.D. ♦ Honey, We Need to Talk!
Dave D’Antoni ♦ The Spouse in Retirement
Aleta St. James ♦ Do What You Love
Robert E. Rich, Jr. ♦ Go Fishing with Your Grandchildren
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Go for It!
Sharon Gilchrest O’Neill, Ed.S., LMFT ♦ Fall in Love Again
Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D. ♦ Olympic Dreams: It’s Never Too Late
Michael Milone, Ph.D. ♦ Go the Distance
Stephanie Cowell ♦ Write That Novel!
Sally W. Paradysz ♦ Tool-Belt Spirituality
Greg Mort ♦ Be Inspired Night and Day
Beryl Bender Birch ♦ Breathe In, Breathe Out
Sharon Haver ♦ Master Your Look
Leigh Anne Jasheway ♦ Don’t Take Retirement Sitting Down: Stand Up
and Make Everyone Laugh Instead
Char Matejovsky ♦ Traveling with Purpose
Bernadette Heath ♦ Wildlife Adventure
Mahara Sinclaire, M.Ed. ♦ How to Plan a Round-the-World Trip
Doris Gallan ♦ Traveling Top Speed at 65 and Above
About the Editors
Credits
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the new world of retirement! Consider 65 Things to Do When
You Retire your user’s manual to making the most of the years ahead.
Many retirement guides contain tips and ideas by one or two authors,
but we thought, why not provide readers with wisdom and practical advice
from more than 65 notable contributors, including experts on the subject as
well as achievers in their 60s who have forged unusual and fulfilling paths?
In selecting the contributors for this book, one of our goals was to be as
wide-ranging and inclusive as possible, to reveal all the wonderful
possibilities that can make retirement rewarding. You’ll read true stories
of people in retirement who sought meaningful new jobs and volunteer
opportunities — like Peter and Hinda Schnurman, who write about
lending their skills to help communities in the developing world, and
Bob Lowry, who shares his dramatic account of working in prison
ministry. And there are lively personal essays of achievement by Ruth
Heidrich, who won a gold medal in the Senior Olympics; Leigh Anne
Jasheway, who teaches stand-up comedy; and Stephanie Cowell, who is
pursuing her passion to be a novelist.
We have included essays on how to make the most of retirement, now
that it’s arrived (see essays by Sydney Lagier and John E. Nelson, for
example); how to reclaim — or discover — your purpose or passions (see
what Gloria Steinem, Ernie Zelinski, and Sally Paradysz, among others,
have to say); how to adjust to retirement when you have to take a
spouse or partner’s needs into consideration (see the essays by Dave
D’Antoni and Dorian Mintzer); and how to develop smart financial
strategies (as discussed by Anna Rappaport, Mark Cussen, Jim Yih, Julie
Jason, and Aaron Smith). We even offer up a lighthearted look at
retirement by famous cartoonist Mort Gerberg. And last but not least, we
are especially honored to be able to include an essay by former president
Jimmy Carter. He and his wife, Rosalynn, have taught us by their
example how to create a productive and life-affirming retirement by
being involved citizens of the world.
It is our hope that this “roadmap to retirement” will inspire you to dust
off dreams that may have been long deferred and to follow your bliss in
ways that you didn’t even think possible. Remember, the best is yet to
come!