I'm making my way through the most popular retirement books on Amazon (I select them by looking at the ratings and the number of comments a book receives). Today I am posting about The 5 Years Before You Retire written by fellow money blogger Emily Guy Birken. I'm not sure I've ever met Emily but I see her in the FinCon Facebook group now and then, so I feel like I know … [Read more...]

Today we have a unique retirement book to review. I'm torn on it -- there are some things I like about the book and others I'm not so fond of. Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life is basically about moving to a higher gear in retirement, a different theme from the "how to have a happy retirement" focus of most books. It's this … [Read more...]

Over the past few weeks I've been sharing parts of the book You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think and giving my thoughts on it. It's a great retirement book that I highly recommend because it's helpful for almost anyone interested in retirement. Those who are 5-10 years before retirement can use it to fine-tune their plans while those farther out can use the book to design an … [Read more...]

The book What Will I Do All Day? ends with "10 take-aways that can help you get over retirement and on with living." I thought I'd share those today and give my thoughts on them. Let's get started... 1. Know your destination. Quote from the book: You shouldn’t decide on Wednesday to retire on Friday. Even if you could retire, you’re not ready until you know where … [Read more...]

The most recent retirement book I've read asks a great question. The book is What Will I Do All Day? and has the sub-title of "Wisdom to Get You Over Retirement and on With Living!" I liked this book. It was a short, easy read and is full of questions and tasks designed to get the reader to think and take action on various parts of retirement. As I've done with other … [Read more...]

As we end our coverage of the book You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think, there are about a gazillion more pieces of wisdom I could share from it. We've already covered so much (and there's much more left in the book) but what follows are eight pieces of learning that didn't fit well into my other posts. And yet I had to share them, so here we are. And in addition to … [Read more...]

I have already posted two articles (part 1 and part 2) with my thoughts on the book How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor. In those I shared portions of the book and added my commentary. Today we finish this series, focusing solely on the importance of interests/activities in retirement (which we started last … [Read more...]

I have already shared part 1 of my thoughts on the book How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor. Today we continue with my review. As I've been doing with book reviews lately, I'll be sharing portions of the book and adding my commentary. Here we go... Retire Sooner Rather than Later I get asked frequently … [Read more...]

The latest retirement book I've read is How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor. The author is a free spirit to say the least, similar to Vicki Robin who wrote Your Money or Your Life, which makes the book a fun and entertaining read. I'm probably the opposite of a free spirit (is there such a thing as an … [Read more...]