the First Year of Retirement: A Warm, Practical Guide to Life After Last Day Work

The party was Friday. This is Monday, 7:10 a.m. - and for the first time in forty years, nobody needs you anywhere.You spent decades planning how to afford retirement - and about forty minutes planning how to live it. "We'll travel some. I'll finally get to the garage." That's not a plan; that's a postcard. The garage takes eleven days. Then it's Monday again, and there are fifteen hundred more Mondays where that one came from.The First Year of Retirement is the other plan - the warm, plainspoken guide to the life after the last day of work. Not the money book: the operating manual for the part your financial plan never mentioned. Because work was quietly paying you six things - money, structure, identity, purpose, people, and wins - and retirement cancels five of them on the same afternoon. This book is how you rebuild every one, on your own terms.A thoughtful retirement gift for a coworker, spouse or parent on their last day of work, and more useful than another mug.