Your Happiness Portfolio for Retirement

Marianne T. Oehser

Description

Flourish in retirement! Learn how to build Your Happiness Portfolio® to navigate this huge transition and enjoy meaningful happiness for all the years to come!
Make the post-career phase of your life the happiest and most fulfilling time of your life!
So much changes as you move from your career into the Third Act of your life! You have to redefine your identity, find a new reason to get up in the morning, build a new structure for your days, and replace part of your social network. Some people slip easily into their new life and others struggle. Many of us fill our days with fun and relaxing things to do but get to the point where we want something more – then we feel a bit empty.
You know you need a financial portfolio to retire but did you know you also need a Happiness Portfolio ®? This book is a practical guide to creating your Happiness Portfolio ® and flourishing in your Third Act.
It includes valuable information and thought-provoking exercises to design your retirement life so you enjoy it to the max and feel that your life is fulfilling. You will explore:
• Why this change is sometimes so difficult
• How to structure your life so there is plenty of time for both fun and doing things that make you feel like your life is worthwhile
• What it really means to be happy
• Some tools for dealing with the bumps you are certain to encounter along the way
This book is right for you if:
• You intend to retire soon or
• If you retired in the past five years or so
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Sujets

• Philosophie moderne
• Happiness
• Psychology
• Retirement
• Self-help
• Baby Boom Generation
• Ageing
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science
• Personal Growth
• Aging
• Retirement Planning
• Psychological
• Volunteer Work

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781982224066
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Praise for
Your Happiness Portfolio ® for Retirement - It’s Not About the Money!
“Marianne Oehser’s sound guidance is on the cusp of what we’re learning is necessary to successfully navigate the Third Stage of life. From her unique experience in coaching and educating she has blended a sound potion which will clearly help us manage the slings and arrows of our aging journey.”
Roger Landry MD MPH, Author, Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging.
President, Masterpiece Living LLC
“Retirement is complex: preparation, decisions, location, life changes, the need for evolving meaning, and relationships are all at play. Marianne Oehser’s new book combines thorough with accessible, a huge gift to both future and current retirees. Rush, don’t walk, to get a copy. It could well be your most important gateway to success.”
Dr. George Schofield, Developmental and Organizational Psychologist, author of How to Get There from Here? Planning When the Old Rules No Longer Apply, recognized as a PBS Next Avenue Influencer in Aging
“There is nothing simple about the Third Act years, especially with more people rethinking and reimagining what they want to do later in life. Marianne Oehser offers practical encouragement to experiment and to try different paths to find your purpose. Her well-written guide to figuring out your next act also has exercises designed to stimulate your thoughts and aspirations. The Third Act years are a time for flourishing.”
Chris Farrell, author, Purpose and a Paycheck , columnist for PBS Next Avenue
This is a helpful book for people beginning to think about the transition to retirement, which can be a scary and confusing time.
Richard Eisenberg, Editor, Money and Work & Purpose channels, Nextavenue.org
“Marianne Oehser has provided a roadmap for a creative, happy retirement. Her use of cases, her many references to related works, plus her practical exercises will give the newly retired or about to be retired a guide to future happiness. A very readable, enjoyable book that covers every aspect you need to consider beyond money. I highly recommend it.”
Nancy K. Schlossberg, Professor Emerita, University of Maryland and author of Too Young to be Old , American Psychological Association, 2017.
“Just as it is important before taking a long road trip to plug in your destination to the GPS in your car, it is equally important before retirement to set the destination (goal) for your retirement ahead of time. If your retirement destination is happiness,  Your Happiness Portfolio for Retirement: it’s Not About the Money  will give you a personalized and detailed route for reaching that destination. Using current research and extensive experience with clients entering retirement, Marianne Oehser provides a step-by-step guide for making your retirement the happiest time of your life.”
Dr. Donna Daisy – Psychologist, Life Coach, and author of Why Wait ? Be Happy Now
“Marianne Oehser gets to the heart of retirement with her new book. The reality is retirement isn’t changing! It already has. So, don’t get left behind by only planning for the financial aspects. Use Your Happiness Portfolio® for Retirement to develop a clear plan for thriving in this next phase of life.”
Robert Laura, nationally syndicated columnist, retirement coaching pioneer, founder of the Retirement Coaches Association, and award-winning author
“One of the keys to smoothly transitioning away from your career into your next phase is planning what you want next. Your Happiness Portfolio ® for Retirement: It’s Not About the Money will help you figure out what you want to ‘retire’ to so you land on your feet.”
Marcy Fawcett, Executive & Leadership Consultant, Principal of The Fawcett Group
Your Happiness Portfolio for Retirement
 
It’s Not About the Money!
 
 
 
 
 
Marianne T. Oehser
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2019 Marianne T. Oehser.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-9822-2408-0 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-9822-2407-3 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-9822-2406-6 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019903433
 
Balboa Press rev. date:   08/09/2022
CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 - The Retirement Landscape
1     Retirement Today
2     Four Stages of Your Third Act
3     Your Mindset Matters
4     Expect Some Challenges
5     When Retiring Was Not Your Decision
Part 2 - Moving Through- the Transition
6     Retirement Changes Everything
7     Letting Go
8     Time for Discovery
9     New Beginnings
10   Connecting with Who You Are Now
11   The Importance of Meaning and Purpose
Part 3 - Building Your Happiness- Portfolio®
12   To Work or Not To Work
13   When You have a Life Partner
14   Flying Solo
15   Family and Friends
16   Giving Back
17   Health and Wellness
18   Leisure
19   Self-Development
20   Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being
21   Pulling It All together
Part 4 - Skills and Tools
22   You May Need Help
23   Resilience
24   Happiness
25   Flourishing in Retirement
Part 5 - Resources
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to the three people who made it possible for me to write it.
My amazing husband, Bill, who encouraged me to write it in the first place and supported me every step of the way.
My beloved sister, Beth, who is my best cheerleader. She is always there for me with undying support, very helpful feedback on the content, and truly unconditional love.
My very dear friend, Rob, who inspired me to write it and was a brilliant sounding board throughout its creation.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Editor: Jessica V. Kelley
Author photograph: Gwen Greenglass
Cover design: Charisse Schelmer Hizon
Interior design: Judee Lou Sanchez
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this book is to inspire and guide you to design and live a happy and fulfilling life in the new chapter after your career. In other words, to flourish.
You will benefit from reading it whether you are close to retirement or if you have moved away from your career in the past five or so years. Most of us don’t have any trouble adjusting in the beginning. In fact, it is often simply exhilarating! But, after the newness wears off, questions and challenges usually appear.
This book is about helping you see the big picture of what to expect as you move ahead and about increasing your awareness of the challenges and the opportunities that are open to you. Most of all it is intended to motivate you to think about all of the areas of your life and what you want them to be like now. It is my hope that it gives you the guidance you need to design and live a happy, fulfillingThird Act.
This book is not about the financial side of retirement. There are literally thousands of books about that important topic. It has become very clear, especially over the past 10 years or so as Boomers started retiring, that confining your focus to your financial portfolio is not good enough. You also need a Happiness Portfolio © that gives you a road map for what you want your life to be like every day. This book helps you build that picture in enough detail that your days are filled with the kinds of activities and experiences that you really want.
My premise for this book is that information increases your awareness of what is unfolding before you. Awareness opens your ability to see the possibilities and the options you have so the choices you make truly contribute to this being the best time of your life. Often those possibilities are not very clear when you are looking through the fog of uncertainty.
I wrote this book because I want to lift the fog of uncertainty for as many people as possible.
I began my encore career as a relationship coach in Naples Florida where there are lots of people living their Third Act. Many people came to me for coaching because their relationships were being challenged by retirement. That motivated me to study