Retirement: The First 365 Days:

Day-to-Day Advice for Happiness in Retirement

By: George Szlemp

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

If you would like some direction, purpose and happiness in retirement, read this insightful day-to-day perspective and enjoy and learn from the experience. The advice, opinions and observations are presented in a thoughtful caring way to help you transition into retirement. Each day covers a topic with a real life situation in which you can relate and feel as if you are there sharing in the discovery. It's an easy read, yet with each page you will be engaged and perhaps inspired. It's a purposeful guide to help you appreciate and learn what to expect when you are retired. By enhancing your life long achievements with practical insights, you will not only learn to better enjoy a fulfilling retirement but each daily essay offers some wisdom, witticisms and words of encouragement that retirees come to appreciate. The journal memoir approach is also fun to read. Retirement may be different for each of us but the purpose of a happy retirement is to have a retirement with purpose. There are 365 pages of sincere and genuine encounters of life's many situations. You should consider this book as a gift giving book for yourself, the soon to be or recently retired person. Read it at your leisure and enjoy many hours of insight. Discovering the process of retirement including identity, expectations, purpose, relationships, physical health, community and family is revealing. It's not always only about the money and financial needs of retirement to make you happy. Your body, mind and spirit comes with you in retirement and it's important to give them all a chance to be part of your retirement life. The simple truth is you need to be proactive in order to enjoy retirement and make the most of the rest of your life. We could all use some motivation as well. While reading, "Retirement: The First 365 Days," you will have some laughs, learn and come to understand and appreciate all that retirement offers. Welcome to retirement. Here begins the next chapter of your life. Congratulations!

QUOTES FROM THE BOOK:

• "Retirement is as different for each of us as each of us is different."
• "Examine your expectations and realize you have grown with your experiences."
• "Excuses don't go away in retirement. You just have fewer of them."
• "Don't count the days...make the days count." "Sharing yourself with others is a good retirement option."
• "Retirement doesn't come with a map, but there are guides."
• "It's our deserved retirement. We earned it."
• "At our age, it isn't about what you leave behind, rather the memoires you create."

Here's what others said:

Paul K. Fox writer for PMEA
"This 368-page paperback is like none other. It's really a diary-a very clever set of short observations
or anecdotes, day-by-day experiences of one retiree's first twelve months of "living the dream".
He goes on to say, "This one is an easy-to-read resource and a quick glimpse to the ups-and- downs
of the first year transitioning post-employment. Buy it and place it next to your easy chair for any
random reading moment. It's funny and worth the 18 bucks."
Jan. 2021

Some good advice

The narration is awful. Such a personal account could have really benefited from a personal voice that pronounced words properly. Some good observations from the writer however.