The Joy of Retirement: Financing Happiness, Freedom, and the Life You've Always Wanted »

David C. Borchard (Albuquerque, NM) is a professional counselor with 30 years of experience in helping adults identify their passions and develop a vision for the next phase of their lives. He specializes in career management coaching and life/work transition counseling and has helped thousands of adults regenerate their careers.

They say that 50 is the new 40. If you're over 50, chances are you feel more vital, energetic, and passionate than ever. While you may be ready to retire, you may not be ready to stop working entirely. These days, life after work no longer conjures up images of couples wandering the malls, playing golf, and taking endless Caribbean cruises. As baby boomers reach their 50s and 60s, they are redefining what it means to retire. What they want is joy, vitality, and meaning in their lives. The truth is that this is not your parents' version of retirement, and just because you may have stopped working doesn't mean you have to stop living life to the fullest. You may want to choose a completely different career path or pursue a whole new interest.

Author David Borchard has been helping adults rejuvenate their careers and lives for 30 years. In The Joy of Retirement, he shows you how to reinvent yourself and achieve the kind of fulfillment and meaning you have always dreamed of in your life. Now, you can start crafting your future and discovering your passions with advice on topics such as: finding new interests that make the most of your unique talents, planning your lifestyle at 50+, assessing what transitions you are ready and willing to make, defining priorities and goals, establishing your criteria for success, mastering the seven steps to maintaining vitality. Revealing and hopeful, this is the book that shows you that life after work can be fulfilling, fun, and exhilarating.

About the Author:
David C. Borchard is a professional counselor with 30 years of experience in helping adults identify their passions and develop a vision for the next phase of theirlives

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Patricia A. Donohoe is a writer, an artist, and an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA)

Deborah Bigelow - Library Journal

According to counselor/career management coach Borchard, the potential for self-realization is greater in one's senior years than in any earlier stage of life. To help those on the brink of retirement identify their passions and develop a vision for the next phase, he provides a step-by-step approach complete with quizzes, assessment tools, and exercises. While Borchard presents information on the usual topics of transcending the stereotypes of senior citizens and dealing with loss, he concentrates on reinventing oneself and devising a theme for one's new life. The relocation and changing gender roles sections are particularly illuminating. A good choice if an update is needed, although Ellen Freudenheim's Looking Forward: An Optimist's Guide to Retirement is preferable.

Preface     vii
Acknowledgments     xiii
Reinventing Your Life at Fifty-Plus     1
Life Transitions: Endings and Beginnings     23
Imagination and the Next Season of Your Life     47
The Life Themes Profiler: Developing Themes for a New Life     63
Self-Liberation: Transcending Old Roles     94
Establishing Your Criteria for Fulfillment     115
Connecting Your Talents to Interests     141
Relating and Behaving Differently as a Senior     167
Coming Home: Relocating to the Good Life     201
Sustaining Vitality: Managing Your Changing Self in a Changing World     222
Conclusion: Authoring Your Life     253
References     261
Index     265
About the Authors     271