Get Inspired to Retire: Over 150 Ideas to Help Find Your Retirement

Baby boomers who changed the world with hula hoops and Harley-Davidsons are about to start yet another revolution― retirement. Not content to fade quietly into the sunset, boomers have adopted the attitude of retiring to something, rather than from something. They’re redefining retirement by staying in the workforce, revisiting education, climbing the Himalayas, buying farms, living abroad, and running for public office.

With 78 million baby boomers entering this "age of choice," authors David Saylor and Greg Heffington, vice presidents at Van Kampen Investments, have written Get Inspired to Retire. Unlike other books that focus solely on financial matters or on one narrow segment of retirement, Get Inspired to Retire presents a wide array of opportunities and choices. Readers will also find new and innovative planning tools to help them get started, like the "Chart it, plan it, do it" Retirement Lifeline that focuses on the big retirement picture. Part Two is organized around six key topics: financial independence, filling the 9–5 week, housing, self-improvement, adventure, and legacies. In each category, readers will discover a wealth of innovative suggestions they might not have considered―teaching, learning to cook, joining the Peace Corps, writing a memoir, or even rafting down the Mississippi, to name a few.

Highlights

Get Inspired to Retire challenges readers to:

•Explore who they want to be in retirement with new and innovative tools.

•Decide between a career change, part-time work, or volunteering.

•Consider housing ideas―second homes, renting, relocation, ranching, and more.

•Keep mind and body alive through enrichment activities, such as education, music, volunteering, and philanthropy.

•Experience once-in-a-lifetime adventures, safaris, archaeology, train rides, and marathons.

David Saylor is a vice president for Van Kampen Investments. Saylor has worked in retail investment sales and investment marketing in Boston, Chicago, and on Wall Street. He graduated from Babson College in 1986.

Greg Heffington is a vice president for Van Kampen Investments and has been working in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He is a well-respected speaker on a wide range of topics relevant to the industry and advisors. Heffington holds a BS/BA in accounting and taxation from Colorado State University and is a Registered Corporate Coach.