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Resources for you to <\/span> EXPLORE.<\/span><\/h1><\/div>

DefyingGravity.life has an extensive\u00a0resource<\/span> guide to help you find purpose in retirement, including books, articles and websites about a wide array of topics regarding the transition.\u00a0 Here are a few of our favorites\u2026<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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The Encore Career Handbook \u2013 How To Make A Living and a Difference In the Second Half Of Your Life<\/a><\/h3>\n

Maria Alboher
\n2013 Workman Publishing<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil recently, most Americans equated the end of a successful career with the beginning of retirement. No more. Now they want to stay in the game (or better, change the game). They want to leave a mark. Make a difference\u2014and continue to make money. From Encore.org, the leading organization in the field, comes a road map to every step of the encore career journey. Here\u2019s how to plan the transition. How much you need to make. The pros and cons of going back to school. When to volunteer, and when to intern. How to network effectively and harness the power of social media. Who\u2019s hiring and for what jobs? (Check out the Encore Hot List of 35 viable careers). A comprehensive, nuts-and-bolts guide, filled with inspiring stories and answering\u2014in extensive FAQ sections\u2014the concerns of its readers, this book is everything you need to help you strike a balance between doing good and doing well–in a way that will sustain you through this new stage of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think this is one of the best books on the topic of retirement and encore careers.\u00a0 It is well-researched and logical.\u00a0 It has reasonable processes and excellent insight.\u00a0 Like all of these books, there tends to be a point at which they say\u2014\u201cand now you know what you want\u201d and that always feels like a little bit of a stretch.\u00a0 On the other hand, at some point we have to take a plunge.\u00a0 Iris<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Fire Up Your Life in Retirement- 101 Ways for Women to Reinvent Themselves<\/a><\/h3>\n

Catherine DePino
\n2014 Paragon House<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen want to be fulfilled in all areas of their lives and at all stages. They want to love and be loved. They want freedom from conflict and a peaceful existence. And when life doesn\u2019t meet these expectations, they want to be able to deal with their disappointments with strength and courage. It\u2019s that simple. What would it be like if women could realize all of these goals in retirement? This book helps women retirees fulfill their dreams by motivating and firing them up to live their best lives now, even if they weren\u2019t able to realize this level of joy and contentment in the past.\u00a0Fire Up Your Life in Retirement: 101 Easy Ways for Women to Reinvent Themselves\u00a0calls retired women to begin living the best years of their lives by working, playing, and interacting with family and friends in ways they never thought possible. All they have to do is resolve and start now. The rest will surely follow.”<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Happiness Curve- Why Life Gets Better After 50<\/a><\/h3>\n

Jonathan Rauch
\n2018 St. Martin\u2019s Press<\/p>\n

“In this warm, wise, and witty overview, Jonathan Rauch combines evidence and experience to show his fellow adults that the best is yet to come.\u201d\u00a0\u2015Steven Pinker, bestselling author of\u00a0Enlightenment Now<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book will change your life by showing you how life changes.<\/p>\n

Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you\u2019re successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end?<\/p>\n

Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch answers all these questions. He shows that from our 20s into our 40s, happiness follows a U-shaped trajectory, a \u201chappiness curve,\u201d declining from the optimism of youth into what\u2019s often a long, low slump in middle age, before starting to rise again in our 50s.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a midlife\u00a0crisis, though. Rauch reveals that this slump is instead a natural stage of life\u2015and an essential one. By shifting priorities away from competition and toward compassion, it equips you with new tools for wisdom and gratitude to win the third period of life.<\/p>\n

And Rauch can testify to this personally because it was his own slump, despite acclaim as a journalist and commentator that compelled him to investigate the happiness curve. His own story and the stories of many others from all walks of life\u2015from a steelworker and a limo driver to a telecoms executive and a philanthropist\u2015show how the ordeal of midlife malaise reboots our values and even our brains for a rebirth of gratitude.<\/p>\n

Full of insights and data and featuring many ways to endure the slump and avoid its perils and traps,\u00a0The Happiness Curve\u00a0doesn\u2019t just show you the dark forest of midlife, it helps you find a path through the trees. It also demonstrates how we can\u2015and why we must\u2015do more to help each other through the woods. Midlife is a journey we mustn\u2019t walk alone\u201d.<\/p>\n

This book is listed on a number of blogs and websites, being highly recommended. Monica<\/p>\n

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Retirement: Different By Design: Six Building Blocks Fundamentally Changing How To Live After Retirement Is Viewed, Planned For and Lived<\/a><\/h3>\n

Dr. Rick Steiner
\n2015 Hatherleigh Press<\/p>\n

\u201dTransforming Retirement One Building Block at a Time<\/p>\n

Retirement is more than the absence of work\u2014it\u2019s a different way of life requiring new vision, new purpose, and new life perspectives. You see, retirement is too important to leave to luck or circumstance; we have to plan and make them happen\u2014our way.<\/p>\n

Retirement: Different By Design, your bridge to the \u201cother side of work,\u201d presents two dynamic and innovative templates for moving seamlessly into retirement and beyond\u2014\u201cRetirement\u2019s Ages and Stages\u201d and \u201cRetirement\u2019s Six Fundamental Building Blocks.\u201d Providing practical strategies and answers, not more questions, each chapter delivers insights, tools, narratives, and models for making retirement the best years of the rest of our lives. And, it\u2019s not always about the money.<\/p>\n

Indeed, we all can live socially rich, emotionally balanced, intellectually nourishing, healthful, and physically active retirements no matter the size of our bank accounts\u2014this is the new retirement reality that\u00a0Retirement: Different By Design\u00a0offers the soon-to-be and the already retired.\u201d<\/p>\n

RETIREMENT\u2019S SIX FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS<\/p>\n