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Get a Life: You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well, 5th Edition

by Ralph Warner

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ISBN10: 1413300847
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The financial-service industry wants you to believe that in order to avoid financial destitution, you need to put aside huge amounts of money that you — let's say it together — should have begun saving years ago. Not true, states Warner, the author of Get a Life. Although a sensible savings plan makes good horse sense, many other actions and decisions will determine whether you enjoy your retirement years. Get a Life shows you how to beat the anxiety surrounding retirement, and to develop a plan to make your golden years the best of your life by developing family relationships, maintaining and creating friendships, improving health, keeping active, developing a robust curiosity for the world and realistically calculating how much money you need and how to secure it. The 5th edition provides the latest research and studies that show physically and mentally active retirees live longer and enjoy happier lives.

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Warner founded Nolo Press in 1971, built the company and authored or co-authored many of its books, and happily retired. This updated edition of his compendium of advice, interviews, and exemplar cases includes coverage of finances, lifestyle choices, and coping strategies as well as new health research and information about how to prepare for retirement while still in midlife.
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Get a Life shares with readers sensible ways to ensure a fulfilling retirement ways that have little to do with accumulated wealth and everything to do with quality of life. Warner stresses the importance of: developing family relationships; maintaining and creating friendships; improving health; keeping active; developing a robust curiosity for the world. Conversations with a variety of active, older individuals also featured.

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This latest edition features over 1,000 changes and updates, providing the latest research and studies that show physically and mentally active retirees live longer and enjoy happier lives.
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Doug, December 5, 2006 (view all comments by Doug)
Ralph Warner, an attorney, has written a retirement guide which, despite its title, focuses on non-financial issues as well as the traditional retirement concerns - which I found was just up my alley. Using notable people who have led productive "retirement" lives Mr. Warner focuses on important concerns such as broadening circles of friends, relying on one's extended family, turning to hobbies and nonwork activities. The book will help the general near-retirement or already-retired reader gain a healthier perspective on retirement. The sections on friendship and love are particularly compelling. Mr. Warner can also be something of a contrarian in his financial advice; he maintains that experts who say people need roughly 80% of their pre-retirement income are wrong. Additionally, Warner says that the Social Security system is not actually in precarious shape and will be around for many years to come. Be-that-as-it-may this book of the is one of freshest and most practical approaches to retirement planning in a long time - because, money for retirement does not really matter? Well, not exactly - but the real keys to an effective and successful retirement are good health, spiritual life, relationships with family and friends, and having interesting things to do. Mr Warner accomplishes his mission in this book and that is to identify the habits and life-style choices that set zestful people apart from those who spend their last years bored, lonely, and very depressed. He reveals - quite bluntly infact - that there is most often a very direct connection between a mid-life obsession with work and saving and an unhappy & unfulfilling retirement.


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ISBN:
9781413300840
Subtitle:
You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well
Author:
Warner, Ralph
Author:
Warner, Ralph E.
Publisher:
Nolo
Subject:
Personal Finance - Retirement Planning
Subject:
Personal Finance - General
Subject:
Aging - Retirement
Subject:
Business & Economics-Personal Finance - Retirement Planning
Subject:
Family & Relationships-Aging - Retirement
Subject:
Finance, Personal -- United States.
Subject:
Social security -- United States.
Subject:
Business-Retirement Financial Planning
Edition Number:
5
Edition Description:
Fifth Edition
Series:
Get a Life: You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well
Publication Date:
20050101
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
8.96x7.12x.85 in. 1.29 lbs.
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Get a Life shares with readers sensible ways to ensure a fulfilling retirement ways that have little to do with accumulated wealth and everything to do with quality of life. Warner stresses the importance of: developing family relationships; maintaining and creating friendships; improving health; keeping active; developing a robust curiosity for the world. Conversations with a variety of active, older individuals also featured.
"Synopsis" by , This latest edition features over 1,000 changes and updates, providing the latest research and studies that show physically and mentally active retirees live longer and enjoy happier lives.
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