From the Back Cover
How do I know if I am financially secure?
What does it take to make friends outside of work?
What is my role in taking care of my health?
I am not really sure what I want as I move beyond work. How can I find out?
Will I be lonely?
Is this really the beginning of the end?
Can I do this?
Beyond Work
Most baby boomers will do retirement well, but many may struggle. For some accomplished people, putting a successful career behind them to enter retirement can be a daunting prospect to face. Others worry, sometimes unnecessarily, about financial and health concerns. And for some, the huge blank canvas of a looming life of leisure is more anxiety-provoking than it is exciting. Whatever you think about retirement, it is not always easy and you are not foolish for worrying about it.
In fact, retirement is a new phase of life--the new adulthood--with its own challenges and rewards. Beyond Work shows you how you can make the transition successfully, face this new challenge head-on, and thrive in retirement. Beyond Work
- Goes beyond the financial dimension that tells you if you can retire to consider the three additional challenges that speak to how to retire.
- Explains the key to a successful retirement: the four domains that provide structure during your new adulthood--financial, physical, social, and personal.
- Features successful retirement stories from people who are thriving beyond work, as well as advice from experts and practical tools for making your own transition.
- Helps you to discover what it means to live life on your terms, and what those terms can be.
- Offers a framework for understanding the choices facing you in retirement, for actively making and renewing decisions about what's best for you, and for making each decision a wise one.
- Shows you how to leave traditional work behind and find new meaning and success in the life you plan beyond it.
Retirement is a big deal, but it is far from the withdrawal from the world that many of us dread. Beyond Work demystifies retirement and builds excitement for retiring while tranquilizing the worry about your new adult life.
Like most career-focused people Dr. Bill Roiter had not really thought much about retirement until something happened: many of his clients began to ask him his ideas on the subject. Over the past 30 years Bill, a psychologist, has used his knowledge of human behavior to consult to organizations and to coach their executives. Many of the people Bill has known and worked with over the years are retiring or are contemplating it. Many have asked Bill what they should know and think about as they move beyond their work-focused lives. Then four years ago Bill's wife retired from her corporate job and focused Bill's attention on the personal, as well as the professional, aspects of this dynamic part of life. This book is the result of Bill's work with these accomplished people.
Bill maintains his own executive coaching practice in the Boston area. In 2004, he coauthored a book with Margaret Butteriss that identified and described Corporate MVPs (Wiley, 2004). He has also owned and sold two businesses, been a vice president for sales and marketing of a publicly traded company, and helped found a venture capital-backed electronic communications company. For the past 12 years Bill has focused his work on coaching executives as they transition to their next challenge.
Bill's professional training includes a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree from Boston University and post-doctoral training and teaching at Harvard University. Bill also teaches executive coaching to professionals looking to develop this expertise.
