Creating a Happy Retirement

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Dr Ronald W. Richardson. Creating a Happy Retirement

CREATING A HAPPY RETIREMENT. A workbook for planning the life you want

Introduction

Preface

PART I. THINKING ABOUT RETIREMENT

1. Introduction

What Makes Us Happy?

Attitudes Toward Aging

The Characteristics of Happiness

Character, Happiness, Planning, and Retirement

How to Use This Book If You Are Already Retired

2. When, Where, What

Longevity Is Our Future

When Should I Retire?

Retirement Is Not for Everyone

Who Are You?

How Do You Use Your Free Time?

When to Start Your Planning for Life in Retirement

Where to Live in Retirement

3. Issues in Planning

Why Plan Your Retirement Life?

Planning and Spontaneity

Planning and Emotion

Planning As a Couple

PART II. WORKING ON RETIREMENT (EXERCISES)

4. Where Have You Been?

Looking Back before Looking Forward

How to Do These Exercises

5. The Transition into Retirement

1. How anxious do you think you will be when retirement happens? 2. What do you think your anxiety is about?

3. How difficult do you think it will be to “let go” of your workplace?

4. What in particular might be hard to let go of, and is there any way to build this thing into your retirement?

5. What work issues will you be escaping from or trying to avoid in the future?

6. What does retirement mean to you now, in this context, as you think about it?

7. Did you see close family members retire and how did they do it?

8. To what extent were you in charge of your own schedule in your workplace?

9. On balance, would you say that retirement for you is more about “getting away” from something or more about “moving toward” something?

10. To what extent would you say that your work is central to your identity?

11. What is the experience of aging like for you? How well do you think you will age?

12. What do you know about your own coping skills as you deal with change?

Conclusion

6. General Issues for a Happy Retired Life

An Attitude of Gratitude

Money Does Count in the Happiness Equation, But …

1. What are you doing to maintain good physical health for the coming years?

2. What are you doing to maintain good psychological health?

3. What are you doing to improve or maintain relationships with family and friends?

4. What do you think about the purpose of life, and how you will pursue yours?

5. What are your thoughts about and how are you preparing for really old age?

7. Where Are You Going?

8. The Forms Kit

About the Authors

Notice to Readers

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Contents

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“OLD AGE IS FULL OF ENJOYMENT IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT.”

Seneca, 4 BC – 65 AD

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• First, people kept adding new friends to their lives. If study members had not added a new friend to their lives in the last ten years, they were not usually aging well. What this meant is that they had not replaced social contacts at work with involvement in other activities that allowed new friendships to develop.

• Second, they knew how to play, whether it was competitive activities like bridge or some other more physical activity that got them out and about in life. The focus was not on “being the best” but just being involved in fun activities.

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