<b>How do I know if I am financially secure?</b> <p><b>What does it take to make friends outside of work?</b></p> <p><b>What is my role in taking care of my health?</b></p> <p><b>I am not really sure what I want as I move beyond work. How can I find out?</b></p> <p><b>Will I be lonely?</b></p> <p><b>Is this really the beginning of the end?</b></p> <p><b>Can I do this?</b></p> <p><b>Beyond Work</b></p> <p>Most baby boomers will do retirement well, but many may struggle. For some accomplished people, putting a successful career behind them to enter retirement can be a daunting prospect to face. Others worry, sometimes unnecessarily, about financial and health concerns. And for some, the huge blank canvas of a looming life of leisure is more anxiety-provoking than it is exciting. Whatever you think about retirement, it is not always easy and you are not foolish for worrying about it.</p> <p>In fact, retirement is a new phase of life—the new adulthood—with its own challenges and rewards. <i>Beyond Work</i> shows you how you can make the transition successfully, face this new challenge head-on, and thrive in retirement. <i>Beyond Work</i>:</p> <ul> <li>Goes beyond the financial dimension that tells you <i>if</i> you can retire to consider the three additional challenges that speak to <i>how</i> to retire.</li> <li>Explains the key to a successful retirement: the four domains that provide structure during your new adulthood—financial, physical, social, and personal.</li> <li>Features successful retirement stories from people who are thriving beyond work, as well as advice from experts and practical tools for making your own transition.</li> <li>Helps you to discover what it means to live life on your terms, and what those terms can be.</li> <li>Offers a framework for understanding the choices facing you in retirement, for actively making and renewing decisions about what’s best for you, and for making each decision a wise one.</li> <li>Shows you how to leave traditional work behind and find new meaning and success in the life you plan beyond it.</li> </ul> <p>Retirement is a big deal, but it is far from the withdrawal from the world that many of us dread. <i>Beyond Work</i> demystifies retirement and builds excitement for retiring while tranquilizing the worry about your new adult life.</p>