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How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor

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How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

By: Ernie J. Zelinski
Narrated by: J. Charles
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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.

©2009 Ernie J. Zelinski (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Personal Development Personal Finance Personal Success Happiness Wisdom Money

Critic Reviews

“To be sure, retirement books are a glutted field, but most focus on money and financial planning. They view the finish line as the last day of employment. That’s where Zelinski’s begins.” ( National Post)
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Perhaps this book is better suited to an older male demographic than a pre-retirement female. Much of the book is anecdotes and ‘humerous’ stories that did not resonate with me. Some valuable tips but nothing of significance and nothing that’s not common knowledge.

A bit dated and sexist

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I truly had a FEAR of retiring, but after reading a few retirement books.
This was the stand out book for me... Retire Happy, Wild, and Free.
I loved this book. It's a tad slow to begin, but keep listening.
I am NOW very excited and looking forward to retiring end of 2021.
At 57 years young with now sooo many things on my list to do....

LOVED IT...

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So much great advice in this book. I might even buy the hard copy so I can underline important points and use it as a work book now.

A book for us all to read

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Brilliant, enjoyable, thought provoking and rewarding. I really enjoyed this one. listened whilst I bushwalked.

Great book well read also

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There is nothing happy or wild in this book. Dull and repetitive monologue with very little useful information - spend your money on a quality book.

Monotonous

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