The following is an elevator pitch for the book

Retirement – How not to end up lonely, Tired and bored.

Hi, I am joel Smith a recent retiree and have interviewed hundreds of other retires.
Retirement is a big lie. You are sold a story that all you need is a hobby and money. Spending the money will give you pleasure, happiness and purpose during your remaining years.

It is a lie.

This talk tells the story of the chaos of retirement. You experience denial, procrastination, uncertainty, and doubt that you go through as you approach and enter retirement. The talk focuses on alternative paths that can be taken and why the recommendation “all you need is money,” is not true.

We describe how to see yourself in a different light, e.g., a paradigm shift. Things do not change, how you look at them changes. You are retired and have left the principal purpose of your life behind: your career to maintain the financial stability of your family. The approach is to make you aware of the alternatives and help you see them clearly, so you can feel good about your choices.

These are the last years of your life. You have worked hard, supported your family and saved and have an expectation that you will enjoy and prosper during retirement. A fair expectation, but unfortunately, not a true.

You are faced with the real thing, not an urban legend or a marketing blurb from the so-many financial houses on how they can help you live to be 200 years old while you play polo. Until now, you had gotten up every day and gone to work, even when people waiting for you at work wanted to make your life hard, you went to work. Snow, rain, cold and gas shortages, you went to work. Take a moment to appreciate the sense of purpose, accomplishment, passion, and fulfillment that it gave you. Now it is gone!

Talk about going from an active social and productive environment to isolation and chaos! Your career is gone and most likely your body. You are facing a new challenge which will require your body to be there to support you and it is gone.

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You spent 40 plus years paying attention to and planning your Breadwinning career. Work-related issues and problems filled your mind on the job and when at home. Now that is gone, but your mind has not moved on. Just like your planning for retirement where you were given financial advice on saving for retirement. You maintained a 401K, set aside money from your family for your own future use. You may have even gotten get help by engaging a financial planner to guide your investing. You were told that hobbies and vacations will fill your days with happiness and purpose. It may, but not likely. The book “Retirement How NOT to end up Tired, Bored and Lonely” is an excellent introduction to this next part of your life. In retirement, you need to rediscover yourself and your new purpose.