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Retirement BooksCareer Books

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It’s time to re-envision retirement in terms of you and your overall wellness. I’m talking about preparing your body, mind, and spirit for everyday life in retirement. If you’ve ever wondered why some people seem to transition seamlessly into this next phase of life, while others end up lost or isolated… it’s hardly ever a matter of not having enough saved. It’s time to get Naked and discover the best of what’s next!” — Robert Laura

Retirement can be the best time of your life, but for couples, there’s far more to it than cashing in on your 401(k). The most important asset you have during retirement is each other, yet many couples aren’t sure where to begin or how to plan for retirement. The Couple’s Retirement Puzzle reveals the ten key conversations couples should tackle before retirement to ensure a rewarding second half of life together.

This book translates the latest science on aging, nutrition, and exercise into simple actionable steps. Inside you will find: real life stories from adults over 50 and how they overcame challenges; self-assessments to help you pinpoint where you can improve your food and fitness decisions; practical advice that clarifies the latest science and clears up confusion; conversations with nutrition and fitness experts from around the globe; and successful tips that the authors use every day to eat healthy and stay active. Set a personalized road map for getting healthy and staying healthy well past your 50s.

How can current and future retirees avoid learning things the hard way? This is exactly why we brought together a group of industry leaders to explore the potential pitfalls and to dig deep and further than many of the mainstream books on retirement.

Throughout 99 percent of human history, life expectancy at birth was less than 18 years. Few people had a chance to age. Today, thanks to extraordinary medical, demographic, and economic shifts, most of us expect to live long lives. Consequently, the world is witnessing a powerful new version of retirement, driven by the power and needs of the Baby Boomer generation. Consumers over age 50 account for more than half of all spending and control more than 70% of our total net worth – yet are largely ignored by youth-focused marketers. How will work, family, and retirement be transformed to accommodate two billion people over the age of 60 worldwide?

Increasingly, it’s up to workers to define their own happiness and success in this ever-moving landscape,” they write, and chapter by chapter, they demonstrate how to build positive change, wherever you are in your career. Whether you want to stay in your job and make it a more meaningful experience, or if you decide it’s time to move on, Evans and Burnett show you how to visualize and build a work-life that is productive, engaged, meaningful, and more fun.

“We are all self-employed” is an empowering belief that you can steer your own direction and influence the quality of your life. You’re the boss–a self-leader– whether you work inside or outside of an organization. You are the decision-maker and ultimately, the onus is on you to imagine, plan, explore, and create the worklife that you want.

A LifeLaunch is the beginning if a new chapter of your life. Each LifeLaunch requires a fresh new vision, new plans, and inner courage as you shift gears from yesterday’s commitments to tomorrows possibilities. Each LifeLaunch is a graduation from one era of your life into the next. Society used to tailor our LifeLaunches for us, and guide us down established paths of adult life. No more. Today you must design your own path, and take charge of all your LifeLaunches no matter what your age or situation.

Turnover is higher than it has ever been. The percentage of the workforce that is actively disengaged has never been higher. The shelf lives of certain skills are diminishing rapidly. Longstanding industries and industry leaders are being disrupted. These staggering changes are challenging our concepts of what a career really looks like today and how we should build organizations going forward. We are facing a Workquake. It’s time we change the conversation. It’s time to talk about how being human has never been more critical and how we have more agency in applying our talents than at any other time in history. We need to have more real and honest conversations about how to build a better model of the future of work, one in which both employers and employees feel safe and energized.

In this “sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness” (Los Angeles Times), we see how the writer has modeled his own life on his family’s lives of work, solitude, and love. When Hall comes face to face with his own mortality halfway through writing this book, we understand both his obsession with work and its ultimate consolation.