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Get A Life: You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well (4th Edition)
Read through this extremely well-received resource by Ralph Warner and see why retirement money is not just about generating wealth and frequent consultation with your financial planner. Too many people reach retirement and feel completely lost. If your life is all about your work, your life will cease when your work does. This book helps you figure out how to adequately plan for retirement while living life to the fullest and developing a balanced range of interests. It's an entertaining, fun to read and practical tool for retirement planning, and it's also a potentially life-changing revelation.

Beginning at the beginning, Warner asks in Chapter 1: what will you do when you retire? The rest of the book explores your options. Health and fitness, relationships with family and friends, developing a love for life and connecting with your community are all covered competently. Readers will welcome a chapter devoted to avoiding nursing homes or, in the worst case scenario, affording their enormous cost. The final four chapters comprise a thorough, accessible guide to financial matters for the rest of us. How much money will you need to retire with? What will be your sources of income after age 65? How can you save enough, no matter what your circumstances? All the answers are here, as well as a "Savvy Peasant's Investment Guide," to help smart rather than high-flying readers provide for themselves – and escape energy-draining worries about money.

Put bluntly, this is a retirement guide for the less-than-greedy who nonetheless want their retirement to mean the high quality of life they've worked hard to earn. Each chapter is packed with excellent information on balancing a full life and conscientious planning for an ideal retirement. It's not an easy balance to strike, but it can be done. By beginning with the question of what you yourself want in retirement, Warner emphasizes the importance of thinking ahead and focuses the reader's imagination at the outset. Money is presented as a means to an end – the end being meaningful relationships, good health and general satisfaction with life – but it's a means that must be carefully studied and mastered to the greatest extent feasible. For this reason an entire half of the book is dedicated to honing your money-management skills.This book should grace the bookshelf of anyone planning to retire now or in the future, particularly those who see that period of their lives as a chance to smell the roses but not stop moving. Physical, mental, social and financial spheres are interwoven to present a realistic tool for achieving goals refreshingly easy to relate and warm to.

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