Super-Charged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love

by Mary Lloyd

Life after retirement is much more exciting if you look beyond what you need for financial security as you prepare for it. Mary Lloyd lays out a whole new paradigm for doing this and shows you how to assess what you really want and need--physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually--to make retired life the most rewarding time of all. Supercharged Retirement will help you conquer the emotional and personal challenges of stepping out of the workforce with solutions that work specifically for you. This book is a valuable wake-up call, particularly if you've been focused on financial planning alone. It will challenge your assumptions about this stage of life, refocus your sense of what s possible, rekindle your passions, and reawaken your drive to spend your time, energy, and resources on what's important to you. You'll discover how to A passionate guide for making these years sparkle, Supercharged Retirement turns conventional wisdom about how to prepare for retirement on its ear. It delivers practical, easy-to-read advice about a better way to do it, using humor, anecdotes, and exercises along with a wide range of factual information. If you use this book, get ready to launch. With Lloyd s recommendations, not even the sky is the limit.

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2009

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very helpful in getting me started thinking/planning/dreaming of retirement.

[Dianne Oliver · Rating 3 out of 5]

best concept of the book is idea of the zucchini. if you have ever attempted growing them, and then keeping up with their prodigious output by making loaves upon loaves of bread, giving excess to all the neighbors, etc-- then you can fully understand her idea of chasing after the little zucchini's in life, the pressing nonessential things, without ever getting to the things that you value must. having a good thing (some bread) get in charge of your life and running you, when you could get the value from it, then let it go and get on with other good things. At this point in my life there is so much change happening that letting go is key, so that I can find that something of value to come.
Other that that the author covered some good ground, but often comes across as a rather vain person, who very much wanted you to know how competent she is. She had good thoughts on volunteering, being certain of what they expect and what you desire, say thing goes for organized religion. BIG.

[Bruceschneider21 · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was not what I was expecting. Too much of the book was telling her story and going into psychilogical asspects. Not a good read for what I wanted.