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    Life After Work: Retirement Books
    Life After Work: Retirement Books
    Life After Work: Retirement Books
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    Life After Work: Retirement Books

    By Susan Kersley

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    Retirement is a life transition and a chance to thrive and enjoy life. This book tells you how to have an exciting and opportunity-filled retirement because retirement is not the end of the road but a new beginning. 

    'Retirement has been a very difficult adjustment. This book is helping me now and going forward'. 

    'I had a successful career and now I have some work to do on having a successful, rewarding retirement.'

    'Highly recommended'.

    'It is an amazing book and a great start for a retiree. Recommending this to 40 year-olds and above'.
    'A good guide as to how to spend the rest of your life.'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Kersley
    Release dateJan 9, 2023
    ISBN9781393137757
    Life After Work: Retirement Books
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    Susan Kersley

    Susan Kersley has written personal development and self-help books for doctors and others, and books about retirement and novels. She was a doctor for thirty years and then left Medicine to be a Life Coach.. Now retired, she is updating her books and writing more. Please visit her website https://susankersley.co.uk If you enjoyed this book, please take a moment to leave a review. Reviews are so important for independent authors.

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      Life After Work - Susan Kersley

      Table of Contents

      Life After Work (Retirement Books)

      1. Life transition

      2 New Routines

      3 Rethink your life

      4. Will you be bored?

      5. Communicate effectively

      6. Life after work

      7. Plans into Action

      8. Ways to Stay Busy

      9. Finding Your Purpose

      10. Get Sorted

      11. Myths about Retirement

      12. Opportunities in life after work

      13. Make Life Easier

      14. The advantages of retiring

      15. Personal experience

      Finally

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      About the Author

      Life after work

      How to thrive when you retire

      Susan Kersley

      LIFE AFTER WORK

      ©Susan Kersley

      First edition 2021

      Updated 2023

      While we have taken every precaution in preparing this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained.

      Table of Contents

      1. Life transition

      2 New Routines

      3 Rethink your life

      4. Will you be bored?

      5. Communicate effectively

      6. Life after work

      7. Plans into Action

      8. Ways to Stay Busy

      9. Finding Your Purpose

      10. Get Sorted

      11. Myths about Retirement

      12. Opportunities in life after work

      13. Make Life Easier

      14. The advantages of retiring

      15. Personal experience

      Finally

      1. Life transition

      Retirement is a time to decide how to spend the rest of your life. It isn’t the end of the road. It’s your life after work.

      It’s time to reassess your life and decide how to spend the rest of it. You may find, when you retire, that you feel exhausted and it’s difficult to motivate yourself to do anything except sit around, eat and watch television.

      Although it’s fine to relax when you retire, you remain fitter and healthier if you develop new interests, make new friends and go to places you have never been to before.

      Ending your working life is an important transition. It means giving up the identity that has become an ingrained part of who you are. It’s possible that your persona dominated.

      Whatever the reason for your retirement, whether it was a planned decision or forced on you because of redundancy, ill health or dismissal, it’s usual to have a reaction to the change in your status.

      You may be happy about leaving a job you didn’t enjoy. You may grieve when you move from being employed to retired.

      Changing your identity is a fresh experience and with this comes sadness, guilt, anger and eventually acceptance and moving on. It’s part of the process.

      Retirement is a chance to change your life. This can energise you unless you dread the changes that occur when your work routine no longer dominates your life. You have opportunities opening if you recognise them. It’s up to you: if you do nothing, then nothing changes. If you follow where your heart leads, your world can be your oyster.

      People plan to do many things when they retire, but unless they have savings or a decent pension, they may not afford to do all they would like unless they earn some extra money.

      Retirement is a chance to start anew. If your job involved being very logical, then something more creative may excite you. Perhaps you’ve always enjoyed making things, taking photographs, drawing and painting, or making music. Is this the beginning of a new career? It all depends what you want.

      Talk to retired people. Notice who seems to be happy and enjoying life, and who talks about missing work. You can learn from the first group and make your own decision.

      When choosing a career after retirement, do what you love. It’s fine to relax when you retire. However, you remain fitter and healthier if you develop new interests, make new friends and visit places you have never been to before.

      Will you explore new opportunities? You may have abilities you weren’t aware of before. Be brave and find them!

      Retirement is a time for change. Do you prefer to spend your time alone or with others? Would you like to get paid or volunteer to help people in your community? Would you like to be fitter? Do you

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