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| | Description | Life after work no longer conjures up images of older couples stalking 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. Many of them are still choosing to work or even create a whole new life entirely. What they crave is vitality, joy and meaning in their lives. Author David Borchard has been helping adults rejuvenate their careers and lives for 30 years. In "The Joy of Retirement", he shows readers over 50 how to reinvent themselves and achieve the kind of fulfillment and meaning in their lives they have always dreamed of. Now, readers can start crafting their new future and discovering their passions. Revealing and hopeful, this is a book that will reshape how we look at the second phase of our lives. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | David C. Borchard | | Paperback: | 288 pages | | Publisher: | AMACOM | | Publication Date: | May 07, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 081448056X | | Product Length: | 8.94 inches | | Product Width: | 6.24 inches | | Product Height: | 0.72 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.06 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 9 reviews |
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17 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Practical Planning for a Creative Retirement Dec 13, 2008
By James G. Macdonell
For years, as a long-time family therapist and as a Presbyterian minister involved in parish ministry, I have dealt with clients and parishioners facing approaching retirement who didn't have a clue as to what they want to do with the rest of their lives. Some of them have become traumatized by indecision, while others have acted precipitously in relocating somewhere else without having any basis for choosing this particular location.....only to quickly discover that the choice they made was disappointing of wrong. In his new book, The Joy of Retirement, author David Borchard, a professional counselor with 30 years of experience in career management and transition counseling, has provided a means of helping those facing retirement to examine their own talents and dreams in creating happy, productive futures. Borchard does this by challenging those in their 50's and 60's to intentionally assess and define the pertinent issues, priorities and goals which will help them make intelligent decisions in establishing vital futures. The author provides charts, raises questions, and gives examples of how others have traveled the successful road to retirement. I heartily endorse this excellent, common-sense, challenging and very warm and human little book which offers a practical course of action for those looking to gain a hope-filled vision of what creative retirement can hold for them!
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Covers what many retirement books don't--the personal journey Oct 13, 2008
By Leia Francisco
David Borchard and Pat Donohoe have created a must-have guide for those 50 and older as they shape their "retirmenent" years. There are plenty of fine books and sources about the financial,geographic, and recreational opportunities of our later years, but The Joy of Retirement is unique. It explores the internal journey, our stories, our true passions, our unfinished business, and how we make behavioral shifts as our senior years. The assessment tools designed by Borchard give a whole picture of the self in retirement and his experience with hundreds of clients in retirement brings interest and depth to his major points.
I love this book.
Leia Francisco
Life Coach, MA, ACC
Leia Francisco Associates
11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Look it over before you buy.... Sep 08, 2009
By Flush Barrett-Browning
Perhaps aging is really very simple. Because most of the guidance this book offers is just common sense solutions to the problems of growing old. And since one of the by-products of aging is (one can't help hoping) common sense, then it goes without saying, why bother to read this book?
Sorry, but the authors' rather simplistic style and approach put me off.
hmmm....lots of words that don't say much. Reminds me of the education textbooks of my youth. Not a good thing!
Seriously, look before you buy. You may find more useful content than I did. From my perspective, this book had little to offer.
8 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Excellent tools to help you organize your thoughts about retirement...all of them. Dec 09, 2008
By Sheila Maher
As an executive coach I have used Dave Borchard's career-focused tools to help my clients maximize their success and fulfillment, while reducing stress and balancing their lives. In The Joy of Retirement he has given us another set of tools that enable us to make sense of our complicated and sometimes contradictory feelings about retirement. Even if you have done considerable thinking about retirement this book will help you deepen and organize your thoughts.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Its about your personality Jan 04, 2011
By L. JOHNSON
"Proforma"
I'm a retired therapist and stock broker currently reviewing the retirement lit for my men's support group. This book is different from the rest which are mostly financial or testimonials. It offers personality type assessments and suggests actionable ideas based on your type. Other concepts are: identity reshaping, self-realization(discover your passion), readjustment time and related issues, updating your value system, relocation considerations and assessment, your tolerance for uncertainty, and self-reflection. He offers 6 questions we all try to answer: Why am I here? How much time do I have left? What's next? How do I recreate my life? Is there something beyond life? What happens to my love ones when I'm gone? Dr. Borchard wants you to be the author of your last chapters and even offers a supportive website.
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