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The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked (Over 250,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages)
Life’s Secret Handbook: Reminders for Adventurous Souls Who Want to Make a Big Difference in This World
aptitude
Not writing a book can be more difficult than writing one
Your Ultimate Life Adventure List
Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised
Work on a university degree and experience a sense of belonging with younger people
Two or three real friends are worth more than a hundred superficial ones
You grow most when you are alone
Tips on how to enhance your next journey
Try a working vacation for a more satisfying traveling experience
money can buy happiness, then why aren’t you selling some of yours? You will overlook the silver lining if you are always expecting gold
It’s better to live rich than to die rich Helping others can make life more worthwhile and you happier than you have ever been
Don’t leave this world with songs unsung that you would like to sing
Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you’d have the time.
Indeed, the biggest mistake you can make with your retirement planning is to concentrate only on the financial aspects.
Indeed, physical well-being, mental well-being, and solid social support play bigger roles than financial status for most retirees.
Happy retirees not only have a number of quality friendships when they retire, they are good at making new friends after retirement. A key consideration is how we find new friends when we no longer have the workplace to rely on. Needless to say, like-minded people are drawn to each other much more often than people who have little or nothing in common. New friendships can come from family members, previous classmates, ex-colleagues, and neighbors. Of course, new acquaintances are also a good source of new friends.
Particularly, try to have close relationships with individuals younger than you. They will influence you to renew your energy and have a fresh outlook on life. While older friends will help you grow old gracefully, young ones will help you think young — and stay young.
The way to overcome envy of others is to relax and count your blessings more often. At least once a week think about the great things your country offers that other countries don’t. When you feel deprived because someone has something you don’t, keep in mind that billions of people in other countries would gladly trade places with you.
To be happy, you must be grateful for many things in life — and there are many if you really look. To identify more of the things for which you should be grateful, borrow an idea from Oprah Winfrey: Keep a gratitude journal. At the end of every day count your blessings and write down at least five wonderful things that happened to you that day.
Without any doubt in my mind, the best book available to help you live the moment is Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. The book is tremendously well written and powerful in its message. Buy this book and you won’t be disappointed. It has the power to change your life.
You must be absolutely clear about what really counts. And you must be even clearer about what doesn’t count. Only then can you make the most of what matters most and make nothing of what doesn’t matter at all. Do something every day to make your life less complicated. You will find that life’s a breeze when you work as hard at simplifying it as you now do at complicating it.
