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How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
- Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Categories: Money & Finance, Investing & Trading
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Summary
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy life to its fullest. The key to achieving an active and satisfying retirement involves a great deal more than having adequate financial resources; it also encompasses all other aspects of life - interesting leisure activities, creative pursuits, physical well-being, mental well-being, and solid social support.
In How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free, bestselling author Ernie J. Zelinski guides you to:
- Gain courage to take early retirement; in fact, the earlier the better.
- Put money in proper perspective so that you don’t need a million dollars to retire.
- Generate purpose in your retirement life with meaningful creative pursuits.
- Follow your dreams instead of someone else’s.
- Take charge of your mental, physical, and spiritual health.
- Create and maintain great friends - a key ingredient for a great retirement.
- Above all, make your retirement years the best time of your life.
With its friendly format and positive tone, How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free offers retirement wisdom that you won’t get from your financial advisor. This wisdom will prove to be much more important for creating an active, satisfying, and happy retirement than how much money you have saved.
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- Derek
- 07-04-20
awful self promoting
awful book where the author spouts his other publications, which, based on this, I would pass by
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- Kathy Nichols
- 14-08-12
Painful but valuable
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I would recommend reading, not listening, to this book. That way you can skim through parts. I may not be the intended audience and didn't like the evangalistic approach or demonizing work. I enjoy the work I do, AND I'm looking forward to retirement.
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This book really did get me thinking about retirement in a different way and I'm glad I stuck it out. But I found it painful to get through. I did like the second half better than the first half, when he gave practical suggestions.
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The excited tone made this book hard to tolerate for me. I nearly gave up multiple times, and I really did pull the plug on my ipod after listening to the first 20 minutes.
16 people found this helpful
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- Walter
- 05-09-12
Lots of air but possibly worth a listen
Zelinski focuses on the non-financial aspects of retirement, i.e. happiness and health. Like most self-help books it's heavily padded and redundant. I fast-forwarded through at least 30% of it.
Having said that, it is essential to have interests and social connections in place for retirement, and these take thought and planning. If Zelinski gets me or you to do this he's done good work. The book is probably worth a listen for those of us approaching the big R.
I found the reader's voice and delivery annoying. That's purely subjective, of course!
10 people found this helpful
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- Cheryl
- 04-07-12
Light and entertaining, interesting profiles
Would you consider the audio edition of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free to be better than the print version?
This review is based only on the audio edition.
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Zelinsky's book is light-hearted and entertaining with a number of profiles of people who live full and satisfying lives within modest financial resources. Many of the recommended ideas are not necessarily unique, but the spirit of the book is engaging and fun. There are a wealth of titles in print which focus on the serious financial side of retirement. But I would recommend this title for a refreshing break from current (2012) economic worries and a little inspiration.
7 people found this helpful
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- Christy Continued
- 04-01-16
BEFORE YOU RETIRE...
... read this book! Your financial advisor will help you with retirement pensions, but this book will teach you how to live retirement to its fullest, and all the personal ways you should map out and plan for, and WHY, before that big day of your biggest freedom. Easy to understand and so informative... I recommend it to everyone who is preparing for or is already in their retirement.
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- Stephanie
- 07-03-12
I don't need motivation, I need skills
Would you try another book from Ernie J. Zelinski and/or J. Charles?
probably not
What about J. Charles’s performance did you like?
animated
Was How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free worth the listening time?
no
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The entire book was nothing but motivational speaking. I expected and paid for HOW to do retire happy, wild and free, not WHY I should.
9 people found this helpful
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- Charles Eakes
- 07-08-18
Big insights Important & Lost by unending repetitions
Author entertains and teaches through effective story telling. He main themes fade as he be bats each concept through excessively repeating over and over. Easy to tune out and that loses the concepts.
2 people found this helpful
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- KYC
- 02-06-15
Thought provoking
Many ideas on what to do in retirement and good advice on positive and healthy attitudes and habits to adopt. Too many quotes and some ideas repeated across chapters. Quick read./ listen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-01-15
Eye opening
If you have ever dreamed of life after winning the lottery or retiring, ypu need to read this book. It provides thought provoking discussion on what you really want from your life. I am so glad I found this now, before I get to retirement. I needed to hear this. Having it read to me on Audible was like hearing sage advice from a friend who wasn't afraid to tell it like it is and make me think about things differently.
5 people found this helpful
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- DC
- 09-10-18
what to do after retirement
the book explores which activities you can dedicate to after retiring. good for those who ara about to retire and ara agraid of getting bored after retirement. a good book. It's not focused on the financial aspect of retirement
1 person found this helpful
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- michael bauld
- 13-08-18
love, love, love
live LAUGH love oh and the NOW ,funny the word Now helped while being a parent also lol
1 person found this helpful