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Redefining the Retirement Experience

My name is Dr. Rick author of . I wrote the book because I failed; and, I hate to fail at anything. Indeed, I "failed" to accept what retirement offered, a second chance, a mulligan, life's one and only do-over. I, like many of us, expected retirement to appear fully formed just turn the work switch off and the retirement switch on. But I was wrong, really wrong!

Work for many of us was who we were and what we did--it's how we defined ourselves. But retirement changes everything--what's so hard about "doing nothing" we think and truly believe. Oh my friends, that's when it all can go wrong. You see, retirement is more than the absence of work--it's a different way of life requiring new vision, new purpose and new life perspectives. Retirement, disconnects us from our familiar daily routines and what structured our lives, our social networks, our paychecks and our reason for getting up every morning.

Trained as a journalist and educated as a Social Psychologist I decided to find out what "retirement" is all about--to understand why some retirements thrive while others descend into boredom, dull routine and dysfunctional and unhealthy behaviors. It quickly became apparent that I had to challenge and replace commonly accepted retirement and age myths and misinformation with new integrated models redefining the retirement experience.

We all can live socially rich, emotionally balanced, intellectually nourishing, healthful and physically active retirements no matter the size of our bank accounts because retirement isn't about how much money we have in the bank, but how much "richness and joy" we have in our lives.