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Freedom Years: Tactical Tips for the Trailblazer Generation

by Michael Shea
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Overview

Are you approaching the age of retirement, soon to be put out to pasture?

The you are about to enter the Golden Age of Ageing.

Rethink everything you know about that dirty word 'retirement', argues Michael Shea. Today, most septuagenarians have better health than fifty year olds did mere half century ago. You have more control over your time than you have ever had before.

Be creative and make your retirement profitable and enjoyable. Michael Shea is doing just that and is in inspiring and witty book he imparts his wisdom on the best years of our lives:The Freedom Years that lie ahead.

Synopsis

To make the most of our retirement we need forethought, planning and, above all, a copy of this book.

Too many of us are inclined to switch into neutral gear as we leave full-time employment behind us. But that can be both wasteful and destructive. It's no longer three score years and ten we're aiming at, but four score years and more of active and productive life. There's an exciting landscape out there wafting for us in Our Freedom Years but on the way there is also the tricky transition between the familiar world of work and the challenges and rewards of retirement.

The Freedom Years shows how to take stock of the vast array of opportunities that are open to us from no on. It questions the stereotypes surrounding retirement and offers advice on how to ease ourselves through this crucial life change. With cartoons by Frank Dickens, The Freedom Years carries a wealth of inspirational, practical and fun advice on growing older healthily, meaningfully, productively and gracefully (or even a little disgracefully if we prefer it). Face the challenge, overcome the difficulties that confront us, and make the most of the Freedom Years.

About the Author, Michael Shea

Michael Shea holds a PhD in economics. A former diplomat who was seconded to the UK Cabinet Office, he served in Africa, Germany, Romania and New York before becoming Press Secretary to Her Majesty the Queen. He has chaired many public sector organisations and commercial companies, and still sits on numerous boards. All of which has formed an admirable preparation for his active non-retirement, which he also spends as a writer of novels and non-fiction, as a consultant, and as a popular public speaker.

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Book Details

Published
April 1, 2006
Publisher
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pages
350
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781841126883

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