You're finally retired! Learn how to make these the best years of your life. Congrats on your retirement! But now what will you do with all that free time? With Keys to a Successful Retirement, you'll discover everything you need to know to get your retired years off to a great start. Covering topics like finances, embracing your passions, and dealing with feelings of aimlessness, grief, and depression that may crop up, this in-depth guide to retired living answers all the burning questions you want to ask—as well as those you're afraid to. Take a complete look at your newfound freedom and explore what it really means to have a successful retirement. This in-depth guide includes: Essential basics—Make sure you're retirement ready with advice for managing your savings, dealing with healthcare, staying fit, and more. Handling tough times—Dig into the more challenging aspects of retirement, like how to best handle the effects it can have on your mental health. Be your own boss—Get guidance that teaches you how to decide what you want your retirement to be and how you can lean into the things that you love. An exciting new chapter of your life is starting—get a helping hand ensuring it's the best it can be!

Wondering where youre going to get the $1,000,000 experts say you need to retire? Join the crowd. Meet 12 ordinary people who found ways to meet their retirement goals, without sizable nest eggs. Authors Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman describe the journeys these people took to achieve their dreams and the setbacks they experienced along the way. Yes, you can retire. Learn how others did it, and how they are living the good life on less.-Evan Simonoff , editor in chief, Financial Advisor Real world! Real people! A must read. You can learn how people like yourself made the most of their retirement savings.-James A. Barry Jr., CFP chairman of the Barry Financial Group and host of Jim Barrys Financial Successon PBS Ill tell you whats so good about Rags to Retirement, what distinguishes it from the long catalogue of damnably boring fi nance books out there. Ill tell you why it matters. Simple really. Its about story, not accounting. Its about people, not money! People like you and me. Were not rich, never will be. We should have taken Economics 101, but we took Latin or geography, and now were facing our golden years with trepidation and empty pockets. Well, take heart, folks. We dont need a million in the bank, but we do need to live creatively. Thats the lesson in these refreshing and moving stories of people whove led hardscrabble lives and have somehow managed to settle with dignity and independence into their golden years. And we can do it, too! Rags to Retirement: such stuff as dreams are made on.-John Dufresne, author of Deep in the Shade of Paradise Husband and wife team Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman are the authors of Rags to Riches, which made two best-seller lists and was featured on Oprah and CBS?s The Early Show. They are syndicated fi nancial journalists whose columns appear in the Boston Herald, Palm Beach Daily News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Scripps Howard newspapers. Their work has been featured or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Money, Redbook, and Bloomberg. They are also the authors of The Complete Idiot?s Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds, Third Edition.

Who wants to be a millionaire? Who doesnt? From magician to manufacturing magnate, fi nancial columnist to real estate investor, poet to college dropout, here are the profi les of 17 ordinary people who started with nothing-and became millionaires!These are stories of people who overcame poverty or in some cases middle class lifestyles to single-handedly beat overwhelming odds and achieved fi nancial success. They may not all be household names, but their stories can serve as an inspiration to us all. Praise for Rags to Riches: There are as many paths to fi nancial success as there are people who want to achieve it. This book shows that wealth is within the reach of just about anyone. -Tom Siedell, Managing Editor, Your Money The most extraordinary thing about Rags to Riches is that it affi rms how ordinary people have this tremendous, innate ability to achieve success and generate wealth if they put their minds to it. -John E Wasik, Author, Retire Early and Live the Life You Want Now Rags to Riches: Motivating Stories of How Ordinary People Achieved Extraordinary Wealth goes well beyond the quick-fi x guru guidebooks to explore effective, longterm strategies that systematically build wealth. Its fascinating, candid look at how every day, people reach their goals by turning challenge into opportunity.-Marla Brill, Publisher, Brills Mutual Funds Interactive www.brill.com A fascinating and instructive collection of biographies. -Evan Simonoff, Associated Publishedr/Editor-in-Chief, Financial Planning Now readers everywhere can discover what Palm Beach Daily News readers have learned: Gail Liberman and Alan Lavine know everything there is to know about personal wealth-how to get it and how to grow it. Gails weekly column in our paper tells affl uent readers how to manage their fortunes. This book takes a step back and tells readers, in the words of millionaires whove been there and done it, how to acquire a vast personal fortune. -Linda Rawls, Editor, Palm Beach Daily News Husband and wife Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman know money. They are syndicated fi nance columnists and authors based in North Palm Beach, Florida. Their joint columns run weekly in the Boston Herald, on America Online, and in numerous newspapers. They are frequent guests on radio and television as well as columnists for Fundsinteractive.com and Quiken.com. Alan and Gail are the authors of Love, Marriage & Money, as well as the bestseller, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds.

From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independence A bull***t-free guide to growing your wealth, retiring early, and living life on your own terms Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of thirty-one, and she did it without hitting a home run on the stock market, starting the next Snapchat in her garage, or investing in hot real estate. Learn how to cut down on spending without decreasing your quality of life, build a million-dollar portfolio, fortify your investments to survive bear markets and black-swan events, and use the 4 percent rule and the Yield Shield--so you can quit the rat race forever. Not everyone can become an entrepreneur or a real estate baron; the rest of us need Shen's mathematically proven approach to retire decades before sixty-five.

If you have an IRA, 401k, or other retirement plan, this book is important for you to read. It is likely that you have heard about how to invest your IRA, but what happens to the IRA in the future when you pass or your spouse passes? This book lays out the journey and strategies of what happens to the IRA and the tax strategies on how to keep the most of your IRA from the IRS. Pre-Retirement: If you are five years or less from retirement, this book helps you understand the decisions that you will face in the future. It will give you the road map that you would need to follow with your IRA. Retiree: If you have already rolled your retirement plan to an IRA, this book can serve as a checkup. Did you make the right moves? Are you working with the right IRA advisor? Do you have your beneficiaries in place? Are there ways that you can improve the investment, safety, and structure of your IRA today and when you are gone?

This collection of lighthearted and witty yet informative articles about seniors and retirement living was originally written for a leading syndication of news and features and made available to more than 50 mature-market publications.

Offers practical advice to retirees while challenging them to approach this period of life with fidelity to the inner values of their hearts, so they can truly live with purpose in later life.

In this nontraditional guide, the editors showcase the voices of 38 women as they confront the need to redefine who they are when they leave the workplace behind them. 34 photos.

Plan for retirement with confidence and ease, using this essential guide for envisioning and creating a post-work life filled with meaning and purpose Retirement is more than the absence of work—it’s a different way of life requiring new vision, new purpose, and new life perspectives. You see, retirement is too important to leave to luck or circumstance; we have to plan and make them happen—our way. Your bridge to the “other side of work,” Retirement: Different By Design presents two dynamic and innovative templates for moving seamlessly into retirement and beyond—“Retirement’s Ages and Stages” and “Retirement’s Six Fundamental Building Blocks.” Providing practical strategies and answers, not more questions, each chapter delivers insights, tools, narratives, and models for making retirement the best years of the rest of our lives. And, it’s not always about the money. Indeed, we all can live socially rich, emotionally balanced, intellectually nourishing, healthful, and physically active retirements no matter the size of our bank accounts—this is the new retirement reality that Retirement: Different By Design offers the soon-to-be and the already retired. RETIREMENT’S SIX FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS • Physical and Emotional Health and Well-Being • Financial Security and Continuity • Life Transition and Acceptance • Intergenerational Life Engagement • Intellectual and Physical Pursuits, Interests, and Activities • Spirituality, Meaning, Family, and Legacy “Any book on retirement planning that does not begin with a discussion of money is off to a good start, at least to our thinking. And so it is with Retirement: Different by Design.” —The Wall Street Journal