How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor

by Ernie J. Zelinski

people who spend all their time and energy on building a huge nest egg often forget how to live happily in their working lives. They compromise their health, they neglect their friends, and they don’t develop interests outside of work.

Surprisingly, even highly intelligent and abundantly skilled people have a difficult time making the transition to retirement and

One of the great advantages of retirement is that you are free of the pressures you had to face at work. You don’t have to accomplish as many things as possible to impress the boss and achieve a higher raise. You are free of the deadlines, and free of the performance measures, that corporations impose on workers. Best of all, you are free from the need to continually achieve. Unfortunately, giving up the need to achieve may

It’s time to rid yourself of the values and moral virtues of hard work. You must get the work ethic out of your system and replace it with the enjoyment ethic.

After you have written down what you would want to be in a non-work world and listed your five best traits, you will have a better idea of who you really