Smells Like Retirement

No one really likes change? and retirement is about as much of a change as any of us will ever experience. Trying to figure out how you can afford to retire, what you will do with all the extra time and where you will live? stressful stuff.Smells Like Retirement is a guide to help you figure out how to create an amazing retirement - a retirement that will put a smile on your face every single day. Practical steps that will lead you to surprising solutions and put you on a path to the best retirement you can possibly imagine. This insightful book will:Get you thinking about your retirementGet you thinking about a retirement that is extraordinary, and that becomes the best part of your lifeGive you some tools and ways of thinking that aid decision-making about your future, and get you ready to be retiredGive you confidence about your futureGive busy people like you a quick read about making retirement decisions

No one really likes change... and retirement is about as much of a change as any of us will ever experience. Trying to figure out how you can afford to retire, what you will do with all the extra time and where you will live... stressful stuff. Smells Like Retirement is a guide to help you figure out how to create an amazing retirement - a retirement that will put a smile on your face every single day. Practical steps that will lead you to surprising solutions and put you on a path to the best retirement you can possibly imagine. This insightful book will: Get you thinking about your retirement Get you thinking about a retirement that is extraordinary, and that becomes the best part of your life Give you some tools and ways of thinking that aid decision-making about your future, and get you ready to be retired Give you confidence about your future Give busy people like you a quick read about making retirement decisions

A strategic guide to the next best steps post-career from the bestselling author of What's Left of Don? and Smells Like Retirement.

The bestselling author of You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think and host of Money Matters reveals the 10 essential habits for a rich, rewarding, and blissful retirement. What does it take to have a truly happy retirement? Is it money? A mortgage-free home? An active social life? A long-lasting marriage—or maybe a new one? Finance expert, author, and radio host Wes Moss asked more than 2,000 of the nation’s happiest retirees to find out—and their answers may surprise you. Through a series of revealing surveys, Moss noticed a pattern of distinct, recognizable habits that the happiest retirees shared, from the simplest of lifestyle choices to the smartest of financial strategies. These are the kinds of habits anyone can develop—the perfect road map to a healthy, secure, and joyful retirement—sooner. Whether you’re already retired or just starting to make plans, these 10 simple actions and attitudes can make a profound difference in every aspect of your life. The book is packed with hard-won wisdom and invaluable advice on how to make little changes now that will have the biggest impact later. It’s filled with proven ways to develop smarter habits with: Money (“Think river, not reservoir”); Family (“Get your kids off your payroll”); Housing (“Live mortgage-free”); Investing (“Be a tomorrow investor”); Spending (“Be pound wise—so you can be penny foolish”); and much more. With these 10 transformational habits, you can stop obsessing over money, stay socially connected, and start enjoying your new life—as the happiest retiree on the block.

When most hear the word “retirement” they dream of what it will look like. Future retirees talk about vacations, relaxing, and taking time to complete jobs they never had time to finish when they worked full-time. Some others may have some financial fears, thinking that they may never be ready; how much is enough? Whatever you think retirement is there are some realities. Since a person can only take so many vacations, eventually you need to determine how to spend your time at home and in your community. This book will provide you a guide to assist you in retirement and ensure your later years have social activities and opportunities to develop relationships within your community. Aspects covered in this book include preventing social isolation, creating social opportunities, and recreation at any age.

A romantic conflict between three seniors: love, jealousy, and solitude play a major role not only in the life of young people.

A team of paranormal investigators, a priest and a defrocked priest with a dark secret join forces to combat of a vengeful ancient demon, and the evil spreading throughout a small New York town. Fifty years ago, Father Leo Bonaventura, a young exorcist, cast a demon out from a young boy in Central America. The demon, Asmodeus, vowed revenge. Now the demon has returned, in the same town where Bonaventura is a retired priest nearing the end of his life. In a series of not-so-coincidental events, the possession of a young girl brings together an unlikely group of people, all of whom are linked in their pasts in some way: A group of paranormal investigators, including twin psychics. Robert Lockhart, a defrocked priest with a dark secret that only the twins know. A father whose dead wife was a college girlfriend of Robert’s and once conjured an evil spirit with him through a Ouiji board. Now they must all join forces and help Father Bonaventura rid the town not only of Asmodeus, but also the plague of poltergeists that have followed the demon into our world. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

This 2006 book introduces and develops the basic actuarial models and underlying pricing of life-contingent pension annuities and life insurance from a unique financial perspective. The ideas and techniques are then applied to the real-world problem of generating sustainable retirement income towards the end of the human life-cycle. The role of lifetime income, longevity insurance, and systematic withdrawal plans are investigated in a parsimonious framework. The underlying technology and terminology of the book are based on continuous-time financial economics by merging analytic laws of mortality with the dynamics of equity markets and interest rates. Nonetheless, the book requires a minimal background in mathematics and emphasizes applications and examples more than proofs and theorems. It can serve as an ideal textbook for an applied course on wealth management and retirement planning in addition to being a reference for quantitatively-inclined financial planners.

As a psychotherapist for thirty years, Sheila Lopez spent several thousand hours talking with clients about the meaning of life, eventually learning the secret of good mental health in any chapter of life: Its all in how you look at it. In her collection of witty anecdotes, Sheila shares cheerful, inspiring advice on how retired women can have more fun in their everyday lives, find joy in simple pleasures, and realize that aging is funny! With hilarious honesty, Sheila reveals the secrets to achieving beauty and happiness as women age, through essays that provide entertaining glimpses at not only her life, but the lives of her close friends as well. From fashion secrets that include trading in polyester suits for glitter and bling to fulfilling a childhood dream of throwing a tea party for a group of girlfriends, Sheila teaches other women that it is okay to be proud of laugh lines and walk into the future with joy and gratitude. Retired WomenLaughing at Gravity is a wonderful reference manual for any woman who wants to turn the Golden Years into the most comical times of her life.

Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it—forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years. He travels to Boca Raton, Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at Century Village, a retirement community that is home to thousands of senior citizens. Early Bird is an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf. Before long he observes, “I don't think Tuesdays with Morrie would have been quite so uplifting if that guy had to spend more than one day a week with Morrie.” In the spirit of retirement, Rodney fashions a busy schedule of suntanning, shuffleboard, and gambling cruises. As the months pass, his neighbors seem to forget that he is fifty years younger than they are. He finds himself the potential romantic interest of an aging femme fatale. He joins a senior softball club and is disturbed to learn that he is the worst player on the team. Early Bird is a funny, insightful, and moving look at what happens to us when we retire, viewed from a remarkably premature perspective. Any reader who plans on becoming an old person will enjoy joining Rodney on his strange journey, as he reconsiders his notions of romance, family, friendship, and ultimately, whether he's ever going back to work.