Your Retirement, Your Way
Have you ever wondered why so many highly successful
people are unhappy in retirement? After years of
focusing on career, most of us embark on the next
phase of life with only a vague idea of the life we
want, or how to make our dreams come true. As a
result, 40% of recent retirees say they were happier
when they were working!
Don't become another retirement lost soul. Guarantee
yourself a long and fulfilling retirement with
Your Retirement, Your Way! Written by a
psychotherapist and a management consultant, it
brings you a revolutionary approach to retirement
planning that combines a powerful self analysis tool
based on the Birkman Method — a personality
assessment system used by Fortune 500 companies and
government agencies worldwide — with sophisticated
financial and strategic planning techniques. You get
self-scored tests, self-assessment exercises, and
step-by-step guidelines to:
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Reveal your key motivators
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Identify your strengths, aptitudes, and
needs
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Define your ideal retirement environment
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Determine where you are now, financially,
and how to restructure your finances to
support your new retirement lifestyle
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Map out a solid NewLife Master Plan for
realizing your dreams in the shortest time
possible
We spend so many years preparing for our careers and
maintaining our competency. Doesn't it make sense to
spend time preparing for what comes next? After all,
retirement today could potentially represent another
25+ years! Your Retirement Your Way will
help you make those years the best years of
your life.
Are YOU ready for retirement? Take the
Retirement
Readiness Quiz
and find out!
About the authors, Alan and John:
Alan Bernstein is a
psychotherapist practicing in New York City. He
received his BA from the University of Michigan
followed by a peripatetic year through Europe
working in the Danish Post Office and hanging out at
Jazz clubs in Paris. He then completed his course
work for his PhD in English Literature at Rutgers
University and was appointed its youngest faculty
member.
He soon realized that this was not the career
he wished to pursue and began the process of "fully
conscious decision-making" exemplified in this book.
He went back to school, supported by a National
Institute of Mental Health Fellowship, and received
his MSW from Yeshiva University. He then started a
career consulting to private agencies and to New
York's Metropolitan Hospital while maintaining
faculty appointments at New York Medical College
(Psychiatric Residency Training) and the New York
University Graduate School (Post-Masters and
Doctoral Programs in Psychotherapy). Thus began his
professional exploration of life transitions,
accessing creative resources to energize bold moves.
His previous book, Princeton Review's
Guide to Your Career, is now in its sixth
edition. While continuing his private psychotherapy
practice, Alan is also a consultant in
organizational development for financial service
companies. He serves on three not-for-profit
Advisory Boards which touch the lives of many
disadvantaged New Yorkers: Creative Alternatives of
New York, Publicolor and Camp Interactive. He
believes that the process of transition, though
daunting, can be cultivated and become an adventure
in itself.
John Trauth is a
management consultant based in San Francisco. He was
born in New York, graduated from Colgate University
and received his Masters in Business Administration,
majoring in finance, from the Amos Tuck School at
Dartmouth College. After graduate school, he and a
buddy toured Europe for six months on motorcycles,
camping out on the French Riviera and the Greek
islands. He moved to San Francisco in 1968 to work
as a management consultant, initially in the
maritime industry, but found that he was better
suited to the financial services industry,
particularly community finance.
After retiring in 1995, he and his wife Astrid
moved to France for a year where he enrolled at the
Sorbonne to study French language, culture and
civilization. During that year, he learned a lot
about France but he learned even more about himself.
Upon returning to San Francisco, he reinvented
himself as a part-time management consultant
specializing in strategic planning and affordable
housing.
In his volunteer work, he is President of the
Olympic Club Foundation which raises money and
provides funding for athletic programs serving
disadvantaged youth throughout the San Francisco Bay
Area. He also serves on three other nonprofit Boards
as well as on the Advisory Council of the Graduate
School of Business Management at the University of
San Francisco. He and his wife, Astrid, live in
Sausalito and spend one month a year in Paris,
consistent with their NewLife Master Plan
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Reviews on the Book - What the Experts are
Saying:
"In Your Retirement, Your Way,
Alan and John lead the way to a new and dynamic
definition of retirement. They begin with this
exciting premise: the more you clearly identify your
own personal style, the more you will experience a
powerful and fulfilling next chapter in your life.
With the variety of guides and roadmaps they
provide, including a sample version of The Birkman
(a 'mini-Birkman',) readers can navigate their way
to a more confident phase of life that offers both
promise and renewal."
--Dr. Roger W. Birkman, Chairman,
Birkman International, Inc.
"Retirement is enviable; but few of us
really give it careful thought! Most of us worry
about having enough money... but do not really
consider what we can or would like to do with the
endless possibilities of the next 20 to 40 years.
Your Retirement, Your Way will help you
rediscover who you really are... and then walk you
through the steps of creating a simple but effective
NewLife Plan for your retirement years. This book is
a must for everyone planning on living past 60!"
--Jim Horan, Author, The One Page
Business Plan
"Your Retirement, Your Way is
an indispensable guide for the journey toward
retirement. Alan and John's journey began as chance
encounter on an Outward Bound course years ago in
the wilds of Minnesota; it helped form the bonds of
friendship that have infused this book with a the
same sense of adventure, opportunity, and self
discovery that makes it a 'must read' for anyone on
their Outward Bound journey toward retirement."
--Rob Chatfield, Outward Bound
International.
Presentation Topics:
How to improve your life coaching skills with
clients approaching retirement.
How to retain the skills of long-time
employees approaching retirement.
How to provide counsel and referrals to
other resources for retirement planning for clients
approaching retirement.
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