Author: Patrick Foley
Publisher: FH Press
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0692197893
ISBN 13: 978-0692197899
Winning at Retirement offers the inside information you need to seek happiness in retirement.
If you are worried about retirement, maybe you shouldn't be. About half of American retirees describe their post-work years as the best time of their life. Here you have a step-by-step guide to ending up in that happy half. Authors Pat Foley and Kristin Hillsley take a practical, inspirational, and entertaining look at the process of seeking happiness in what should be your most enjoyable years.
Consider Social Security: it’s complicated and has many rules. But it can be pretty straightforward if you understand the basics of the decisions you need to make. Also, there is a common mistake that married couples should avoid. Winning at Retirement explains it all, in plain language. It has been lauded as one of the clearest guides you’ll find to Social Security claiming strategies.
Likewise investing is infinitely complex, but conceptually straightforward: set some of your money aside and let it grow. Start by recognizing that no one really knows what’s going to happen next in the economy and the market. Accepting uncertainty is the foundation of good investment practices, and can help you avoid being among the majority of investors who experience poor results over time. Winning provides guidance on this, including “Five Money Maxims”... a set of principles that help simplify investing.
Medicare is a maze of rules, decisions, and changing prices. The book will help you understand the structure of the program, explain the choices you need to make, and tell you how to get help with enrollment.
Winning also provides advice on maintaining health and wellness. After all, it’s much harder to enjoy life if you struggle to move, or are living with pain. Information about diet and exercise can be confusing and conflicting, but wellness and aging can be boiled down into key concepts that you can (should!) put into action.
Beyond addressing practical considerations like money, health, and where to live, Winning challenges you to ask “who am I going to be in retirement?” Retirement is an opportunity for reinvention, or as a popular quotation from the book says “a blank sheet of paper”. But far too many people plan for the financial aspects, without recognizing the importance of seeking a meaningful, impactful identity. A purposeful life is a happy life!
Today’s retirees are plugged-in. They have smart phones, are internet savvy, and follow their grandchildren on Facebook. Winning takes a thoroughly modern look at the subject, describing web tools, apps, TED talks, and the vast world of resources that are at your fingertips in your quest for financial stability, health, and purpose. In the end you will learn about the Retirement Happiness Map, a simple but powerful way to organize your retirement decisions.
Step inside, you won’t be disappointed.
- Featuring the cartoons of Randy Glasbergen
- Great for book clubs
Review
Winning at Retirement: A Guide to Health, Wealth & Purpose in the Best Years of Your Life goes beyond most retirement books that focus on financial concerns to consider the underlying issues of security and happiness in retirement years. It's the perfect item of choice for anyone who wants to pre-define these two essential elements of a successful retirement, and approaches its subject with a lively dialogue designed to entertain and engage even as it educates. Winning at Retirement is a guide to not just financial but emotional and physical happiness in retirement years that will help readers identify what those years should be like. It provides one of the more accessible, concrete guides on the market for reviewing future retirement goals and options. Ideally, Winning at Retirement will be consulted not just by seniors, but by those in their 30s and 40s who have time to strategize and plan for maximum effectiveness.
-- Midwestbookreview.com
This book is among the best retirement books that take a modern approach when it comes to retirement planning. Patrick Foley and Kristin Hillsley teach you how to take advantage of technology, TED talks, and other resources at your fingertips to plan for your retirement. The authors are entertaining, inspirational, and practical, and what makes them stand out is that they touch on other areas of retirement, such as health and ways to make the most of your retirement years. You won't be dreading retirement after reading this book.
-- Millionaire Mob (from "Best Retirement Books to Consider Reading: Our Top 10")
Listed among "41 Best Retirement Planning Books of All Time"
-- Bookauthority.org
If you ever needed just one guidebook about retirement, then this is it. Author duo Patrick Foley and Kristin Hillsley really have thought of every angle and aspect that one might want to consider when retiring in this day and age, and their well-organized formatting allows for easy access to the most pertinent information at your fingertips. It's wonderful to see traditional and modern approaches used, with guidance for technological aids to gain even more information. The narrative tone of the authors is both friendly and accessible, with a gentle approach to jargon that educates but does not patronize. Key concepts add a lot of clarity to the direction of the work too and give handy reminders that stand out. Overall, Winning At Retirement is a highly comprehensive guidebook which is well worth a look if you're coming up to retirement age, or indeed are already there!
-- Reader's Favorite
Just when you think there are no more "excellent reads" out there on retirement prep and realization, another one comes around!" ... Other books have made me dizzy offering comprehensive details on Social Security scenarios for couples, but this may be one that brings these out with greater simplicity and clarity.
-- Paul K. Fox, PMEA Retired Member Network eNEWS
Those on the cusp of deciding to quit work and explore a new chapter of life with purpose and happiness would do well to consult Foley's book to learn tips on retiring well.
-- IndieReader
About the Author
Financial Planner Patrick Foley has been guiding Americans toward happy retirements for more than 25 years. He and his partner and co-author Kristin Hillsley have developed an innovative and holistic process that inspired the book Winning at Retirement. Pat holds the CFP(R) designation, and has an eclectic background that includes extensive community service, regular speaking engagements, and the founding of a music festival and bone marrow drive. In their practice, Pat and Kristin avoid investment jargon, and focus on breaking complex subjects into an easily understood series of decisions. That, and a realization that money is just a means to more important ends, guides their approach to advising people in their practice and through their book. Pat and his wife Heather have two daughters and one crazed Golden Retriever, and live in Blue Bell, PA.
