“A surefire scientific formula for enjoying the years ahead when our first career is over. A must read!” – Ken Blanchard, PhD, coauthor of The One Minute Manager

Retire Right a Proven Prescription for Living a Happy, Fulfilling Rest of Your Life

Why Financial Planning Is Not Enough

With work out of the way, what do you REALLY want to do with the rest of your life? You’ve done your “retirement planning” and all the saving, but does wise financial planning really make you ready for the years ahead?

According to Dr. Fritz Fraunfelder and Dr. Jim Gilbaugh Jr.,  authors of Retire Right: The Retirement Docs’ Proven Prescription for Living a Happy, Fulfilling Rest of Your Life  (Avery/Penguin Group USA), you can’t rely on enjoying your retirement without thinking beyond financial planning—no matter how much money you have in the bank. Planning for an intellectually stimulating and fulfilling fresh start is just as crucial as saving that nest egg.

After all, these days more and more of us spend as much time healthy and active in the retirement phase of our lives as we spent working.   But what do we do with our newfound freedom? How can we take advantage of these years? Retire Right is the first book to address these new challenges, and offer a foolproof, scientifically-proven plan, guaranteed to help you create the life in retirement you truly want.

Fraunfelder and Gilbaugh, aka “The Retirement Docs,” wanted to write this book after seeing thousands of their patients handle the transition to retirement, with varying degrees of success. While some rose to new heights, others hit new lows. This disparity caused the doctors to wonder: How do some people maintain their zest for life in retirement while others become distant and depressed? Is there a magic formula for retiring well?

In order to find the answer, the doctors designed a comprehensive study that included more than one thousand patients, and found that the most satisfied retirees shared these eight key traits:

A surprising piece of advice from the Docs is to keep working! As long as it’s work you truly enjoy. Cultivate the hobbies you have always loved and pursue new interests you have always wanted to investigate.  Retire Right offers tips and strategies to do accomplish all.

 The book includes an introductory quiz (attached) that evaluates the reader’s strengths and weaknesses in meeting his or her retirement goals, tips for developing and strengthening each of the eight key traits, and the information needed to guide retirees every step of the way. Retire Right is a kind of “retirement investment” that pays dividends socially, intellectually, and physically. It is simply the most concrete guide to making retirement the fulfilling and free period of our lives that it can be.