Press Release - "DON'T RETIRE, REWIRE!" 2nd Edition
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The day I came home from work and discovered that my recently retired husband had rearranged the kitchen drawers, I knew we had a problem. ….Susan, 58
"DON'T RETIRE, REWIRE!" 2nd Edition
Boomers Can Avoid Traditional Retirement Pitfalls and Create A Fulfilling Future
Boomers and others who are facing retirement want choices about how they will live and work in the future. The traditional notion of retiring to a life of golf, grand kids and travel sounds good to some--- but many individuals want to create a new life plan that includes flexibility, fun, fulfillment and financial rewards. Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners, co-authors of the new book, Don’t Retire, REWIRE!, Second Edition, (Alpha Books, ISBN: 978-1-59257-689-0, $18.95) know the challenges individuals face as they plot the “new future” and offer a “painless” and proven five-step strategy called “rewiring” that helps people create a future that fulfills wants, needs and dreams.
"We found that those who were happiest in this period of life had created a new kind of retirement – what we call 'rewirement®,'” they explain. "These people had either intuitively known what their deepest needs were – and had fulfilled them with new activities – or had discovered how to satisfy them through trial and error."
As people are living longer and healthier lives, retirement planning has to include more than just financial planning. Boomers want it all – to have fun, discover new purpose and meaning, to be valued, and, in many cases, to continue working – but not necessarily at the same job, or even a paid job, but in a new role that fulfills them. Many people have never done work they enjoyed. Now that mortgages and family responsibilities are largely behind them, people have the chance and the time to pursue new and fulfilling work choices and options but they need to realize that they don’t rewire in a vacuum! Don’t Retire, REWIRE!, Second Edition, offers the following new perspectives:
Most people don’t know themselves. Take away work and who am I? What motivates me? The more self knowledge you have, the greater the shot you have of getting your future right.
Up-to-date technology skills, not to mention curiosity and energy, will help you stay in the game. Rewirees must be up on the latest technology. Being technology enabled is one of the most important skills in today’s world and opens the door to work opportunities.
Couples have three retirements to plan for: his, hers and ours. It doesn’t matter who is retiring; both partners are affected. Couples often end up at cross-purposes or at no purpose at all if they don’t consider “What do I want? What do you want? We do we want?”
"The key secret for success in this next stage of life is: 'know what you'll be leaving behind when you retire, then figure out how to replace that in the future,'" Sedlar and Miners contend.
DON'T RETIRE, REWIRE! Second Edition is the perfect handbook for the millions of people facing the end of their traditional working life – and who want the next act to be even better.
Don’t Retire, REWIRE! Second Edition
Alpha Books
ISBN: 978-1-59257-689-0, $18.95
Authors: Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners
November 2007
