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The Retiring Mind: How to Make the Psychological Transition to Retirement

(Retiring Mind #1)

Robert P. Delamontagne

3.44 · Rating details · 32 ratings · 4 reviews

After settling into retirement, have you found yourself asking, Is that all there is? Even though retirement is one of life's most psychologically stressful milestones, retirement advice usually focuses on finances, rather than feelings. In The Retiring Mind, Robert P. Delamontagne leads prospective and recent retirees on a journey of psychological, emotional, and spiritua ...more

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Paperback, 158 pages

Published March 16th 2010 by Synergy Books (first published January 1st 2010)

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Apr 13, 2015 Kasey Reese rated it really liked it

Overall I very much appreciated the personality type specific advice this book provides to help readers consider the inner aspects of shifting from a career of full time work to their next phase in life. The book is based on the Enneagram personality model which I personally have found to be a bit different from other personality type assessment approaches and so it took some time for me to align my Myers-Briggs "INTJ" type with the Enneagram types in the book. However once I did this the type F ...more

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Dec 09, 2018 Mary Ann Shannon rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Just ok

Started out strong but fades by chapter 5
No real talk aways after that,,kept thinking it would get better
NOT

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Jul 24, 2019 Rhonda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

There is more than the money when planning to retire. There is what are you going to do? Where and how do you want to live? Life is better when you are prepared.

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