What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition
Planning a Prosperous, Healthy, and Happy Future
Published on 13. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-58008-205-1 (ISBN)
Description
Plan Now for the Life You Want
Today's economic realities have reset our expectations of what retirement is, yet there's still the promise for what it can be: a life stage filled with more freedom and potential than ever before. Given the new normal, how do you plan for a future filled with prosperity, health, and happiness? As a companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the world's best-selling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement offers both a holistic, big-picture look at these years as well as practical tools and exercises to help you build a life full of security, vitality, and community.
This second edition contains updates throughout, including a section on Social Security, an in-depth exercise on values and how they inform your retirement map, and the one-of-a-kind resource for organizing the sea of information on finances and mental and physical health: the Retirement Well-Being Profile. More than a guide on where to live, how to stay active, or which investments to choose, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement helps you develop a detailed picture of your ideal retirement, so that-whether you're planning retirement or are there already-you can take a comprehensive approach to make the most of these vital years.
Today's economic realities have reset our expectations of what retirement is, yet there's still the promise for what it can be: a life stage filled with more freedom and potential than ever before. Given the new normal, how do you plan for a future filled with prosperity, health, and happiness? As a companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the world's best-selling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement offers both a holistic, big-picture look at these years as well as practical tools and exercises to help you build a life full of security, vitality, and community.
This second edition contains updates throughout, including a section on Social Security, an in-depth exercise on values and how they inform your retirement map, and the one-of-a-kind resource for organizing the sea of information on finances and mental and physical health: the Retirement Well-Being Profile. More than a guide on where to live, how to stay active, or which investments to choose, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement helps you develop a detailed picture of your ideal retirement, so that-whether you're planning retirement or are there already-you can take a comprehensive approach to make the most of these vital years.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
ONE COLOR
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58008-205-1 (9781580082051)
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John E. Nelson | Richard N. Bolles
What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition
Planning a Prosperous, Healthy, and Happy Future
E-Book
09/2011
1st Edition
Ten Speed Press
€12.49
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Previous edition
Richard Nelson Bolles | John Nelson
What Color is Your Parachute? for Retirement
Practical Planning for Money, Health, and Happiness
Book
05/2007
Ten Speed Press
€36.11
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Persons
JOHN E. NELSON is a speaker and seminar facilitator on retirement and life-stage planning, well-being, and core values. He is an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also earning a PhD. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
RICHARD N. BOLLES is the author of the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, What Color Is Your Parachute? He has been a leader in the career development field for more than thirty-five years. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Content
Preface . . . . . viii
What to Expect from This New Edition . . . . . xii
Chapter ONE
Retirement Is Dead—Long Live Retirement! 1
The retirement we knew is disappearing. Do you want a finish line or a marker on your journey? Ten ways to customize your transition.
Chapter TWO
The Retirement You’ve Always Wanted but Forgot About 23
What we all want in life. Six fields of knowledge that support well-being.
What are the elements of your ideal retirement?
Chapter THREE
The Life You Can Live (Right Now) 41
How we make big life decisions. Are you buying a “lifestyle” or creating a life? Ten steps to activate your core values.
Chapter FOUR
Retirement Economics Is More Than Personal Finance 73
A family approach to retirement economics. The original pyramid scheme.
Your three-legged stool is wobbly. The spending-saving seesaw.
Chapter FIVE
A New Approach to Retirement Security 101
Five pillars are better than three legs. How to use automatic systems for saving, investing, and income. Where to find a fiduciary advisor.
Chapter SIX
The Nature of Space and Time 127
Four layers of retirement geography. Is your dream home a nightmare? Calling it a community doesn’t make it one. Your essential region.
Chapter SEVEN
Medicine—Who’s in Charge? 155
How much medicine will you buy? Your medical philosophy, and what it costs. Choose medical relationships before you need them.
Chapter EIGHT
Health from the Inside Out 173
Our biology plus medicine equals health. What’s your biological age? The longevity class reunion. Three practices for biological vitality.
Chapter NINE
A New Chapter in Psychology 189
Are you trying to fix your weaknesses? Three paths to happiness. Staying engaged in work—and retirement, too! Your greatest strengths.
Chapter TEN
Happiness Is Only Real When Shared 217
Work connections wither and die. Build relationships in advance. Your three levels of social connection. Retirement with that special someone.
Chapter ELEVEN
The New Retirement—an Undivided Life 235
Connect your life circles for well-being. Do you have a calling? Don’t wait for retirement—start living your ideal life now!
Appendix: The Retirement Well-Being Profile . . . . . 252
Resources . . . . . 254
Acknowledgments . . . . . 264
Index . . . . . 266
About the Authors . . . . . 274
What to Expect from This New Edition . . . . . xii
Chapter ONE
Retirement Is Dead—Long Live Retirement! 1
The retirement we knew is disappearing. Do you want a finish line or a marker on your journey? Ten ways to customize your transition.
Chapter TWO
The Retirement You’ve Always Wanted but Forgot About 23
What we all want in life. Six fields of knowledge that support well-being.
What are the elements of your ideal retirement?
Chapter THREE
The Life You Can Live (Right Now) 41
How we make big life decisions. Are you buying a “lifestyle” or creating a life? Ten steps to activate your core values.
Chapter FOUR
Retirement Economics Is More Than Personal Finance 73
A family approach to retirement economics. The original pyramid scheme.
Your three-legged stool is wobbly. The spending-saving seesaw.
Chapter FIVE
A New Approach to Retirement Security 101
Five pillars are better than three legs. How to use automatic systems for saving, investing, and income. Where to find a fiduciary advisor.
Chapter SIX
The Nature of Space and Time 127
Four layers of retirement geography. Is your dream home a nightmare? Calling it a community doesn’t make it one. Your essential region.
Chapter SEVEN
Medicine—Who’s in Charge? 155
How much medicine will you buy? Your medical philosophy, and what it costs. Choose medical relationships before you need them.
Chapter EIGHT
Health from the Inside Out 173
Our biology plus medicine equals health. What’s your biological age? The longevity class reunion. Three practices for biological vitality.
Chapter NINE
A New Chapter in Psychology 189
Are you trying to fix your weaknesses? Three paths to happiness. Staying engaged in work—and retirement, too! Your greatest strengths.
Chapter TEN
Happiness Is Only Real When Shared 217
Work connections wither and die. Build relationships in advance. Your three levels of social connection. Retirement with that special someone.
Chapter ELEVEN
The New Retirement—an Undivided Life 235
Connect your life circles for well-being. Do you have a calling? Don’t wait for retirement—start living your ideal life now!
Appendix: The Retirement Well-Being Profile . . . . . 252
Resources . . . . . 254
Acknowledgments . . . . . 264
Index . . . . . 266
About the Authors . . . . . 274