Retirement years, the new dawn

Book excerpt: Retirement, like any major transition in life, comes with a whole array of emotions and worries. By thoughtfully planning in advance both financially and emotionally, we can help ease the overwhelming emotions of this significant life transition, and spend more time enjoying our new life to the fullest. This book guides us on how to have a rewarding and dynamic life. It teaches one how to bring transformation from loss of identity, which comes with retirement, to sense of purpose. It tells us that we are not done yet and the retirement stage is a new dawn. Society views us that way and makes us believe, after a certain stage of retirement, as useless. And unfortunately, it sinks within many of us. We don’t have to allow that. This book inspires us and tells us how to take retirement as a stage to grow not stop. People in the retirement stage are too young to be old. It has nothing to do with aging. This book is not only for those who are in the retirement stage but also for everyone facing challenges in life and finding life boring and lonely. This book is a must-read for anyone struggling to find happiness in daily life and wanting to avoid living out a retired life of mediocrity. We have the potential for happy retirement but for that, we have to plan and make it happen. Since nothing will happen automatically, this book will be of help. The book will bring up awareness of the various challenges, that retirees are likely to face, and show the ways to handle them for a beautiful life ahead.