Time for Wonderlust: Planning Your Retirement Renaissance - Softcover

Wright, Forrest J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996945105 ISBN 13: 9780996945103

Publisher: Real Leisure Press, 2018

Synopsis

RETIREMENT AS YOUR LAST SECOND CHANCEThis "Wonderlust" book speaks to those over 50 who are looking to rededicate their lives to something other than work. It's difficult to know where to turn after a long career, so this book offers four helpful concepts.YOUR NEW FUTURE MAY LIE IN YOUR PAST1. You've probably had miraculous experiences in your life that are not fully appreciated for their significance. Revisiting them with a fresh perspective as described in "Wonderlust" could renew your sense of uniqueness and meaning and provide a strong foundation to pivot in exciting new directions.2. Trying to understand these peak experiences--moments of transcendence--can create curiosity about how they affect others. Can we look for answers in the arts, philosophy, or psychology? Learning about the Axial Age and pleasures of the mind can not only be fun but create wonderful moments of happiness as you find meaning in retirement.3. Full retirement provides the best environment--when work concerns don't compromise your limited free time--to explore these concepts. Considerable financial planning, though, is needed to insure comfortable full retirement living.4. You learn about the threats to finding leisure time, such as conspicuous consumption, and how you can "own your job" even before you retire.

About this title

About the Author

The author has seen retirement from both sides: As professional planner and as retiree. His web site is timeforwonderlust.com

Forrest J. Wright always wanted to retire--literally. At eight years old heasked his dad what it would take not to have to work. The answer he gotwas "two million." To bring that "two million" day closer, he became aWharton MBA, professional investment manager at Aetna, Inc., and aretirement planner (CFP) at his own firm. All as a means to an enddescribed in Time For Wonderlust.

Forrest J. lives with his wife, Sharon, and daughter, Julie, in Farmington, CT. His son, Forrest D., lives in Philadelphia.

From the Back Cover

Finally--In Retirement, You'll Have Time to Wake Up Your Brain to the World of Ideas!
Goodbye to the work world and hello, leisure! What are you going to do with all your new free time? Try engaging your "wonderlust(TM)"--your innate curiosity and desire to know the world...and to know yourself. Isn't it time you entered the world of great thinkers and powerful ideas?
The book you're holding is unlike any other retirement book you've ever seen. Yes, it gives you a path to financial freedom and comfort. But it goes far beyond. It might be the first book to really look at your potential for greatness in retirement--something you can think of as the best accomplishment of your life.

Time for Wonderlust walks you through three stages:

1. How to save enough for real retirement and never have to work again--say goodbye to the stress and worry that plagues so many retirees
2. How to appreciate real leisure and never be bored by not having a job
3. How to harness that leisure to find the true meaning in your life

In this day and age of rapid change and many career changes,Forrest's ideas about establishing financial freedom are even more relevant. He views retirement as an entry into a time of unrestricted personal achievement. Preparing for this event requires acquiring the appropriate mindset as well as accumulating the financial resources needed to support a comfortable retirement.
--Martha Kapouch, NAPFA Financial Planner

Forrest J. Wright's, Time For Wonderlust, is an essential cookbook for success. A pragmatic etherealism integrating definitions of success with heady,substantive rich living. A must read as well for millennials interested in applying their formal education to a rich and full life before and after retirement.
--Jay Johnston, Director, Farmington Libraries, Connecticut

Edition details

• Publisher: Real Leisure Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996945105
• ISBN 13: 9780996945103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208