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Summary: Great job Mitch Anthony
Review: As a financial planner who specialized in retirement and life planning I have read many books on the subject of retirement planning. Many are good, some are great and a small number are of no use. This is one of the great ones because it addresses retirement in a new light. I see far too many people that have bought into the traditonal view of retirement only to find them selves bored and frustrated with life. They may have done a great job accumulating financial wealth but when it comes down to transitioning into this new phase of life called retirement they fail. Mitch Anthony does a great job of getting the reader to think about retirement as something much more than the traditional view that so many people have been sold for many years. I don't believe that the book is "The Book" on retirement planning and I don't believe that there is one book out there with all of the answers. This book is a great additon to my library of resources that I continually use to help my clients retire (what ever that may be for them) as successfully as possible. The cost of the book is low so buy it and decide for yourself. I dont't believe that you will feel like you wasted your money or your time.
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Summary: Great job Mitch Anthony
Review: As a financial planner who specialized in retirement and life planning I have read many books on the subject of retirement planning. Many are good, some are great and a small number are of no use. This is one of the great ones because it addresses retirement in a new light. I see far too many people that have bought into the traditonal view of retirement only to find them selves bored and frustrated with life. They may have done a great job accumulating financial wealth but when it comes down to transitioning into this new phase of life called retirement they fail. Mitch Anthony does a great job of getting the reader to think about retirement as something much more than the traditional view that so many people have been sold for many years. I don't believe that the book is "The Book" on retirement planning and I don't believe that there is one book out there with all of the answers. This book is a great additon to my library of resources that I continually use to help my clients retire (what ever that may be for them) as successfully as possible. The cost of the book is low so buy it and decide for yourself. I dont't believe that you will feel like you wasted your money or your time.
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Summary: New Retire Attitude
Review: Excellent book. Wish I had wrote it. Rather than concentrate on the economics of retirement, focusing on the many other factors makes this the single stongest retirement book I have read yet.
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Summary: Great for Gen-X'ers Too
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. It has given me a new perspective on my career. I am glad that this wasn't just another book on how to save millions of dollars. Anthony discusses the importance of finding your calling, so to speak. He wants readers to look at what they enjoy most and do that for most of their lives. Of course, there may be a time when we are unable to work or no longer want to work. Then, it is important to have some money set aside. Otherwise, you can retire from the typical working world at any age and begin the life you've always wanted to live.
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Summary: Timely Advice
Review: If you want to read a book that is encouraging and informative about the retirement phase of life, "The New Retirementality," by Mitch Anthony is probably not for you. A better title for the book, at least for the first third of it, might be "The New Anti-Retirementality," because the author works so hard at trouncing any possibility that a traditional, kick-back style of retirement can be any good for anybody. For example, the author says, "The concept of retirement was an illogically founded and shortsighted social manipulation, which is no longer relevant and is hopelessly out of touch with our times." No margin for error there, but in case you have any doubts, get this: "The hangover can start within a week or two (into retirement). It begins when the retiree starts asking, 'Is this all I've got to do for the rest of my days?'" Want more? How about, "A life of total ease is one step from a life of disease. The reason so many retirees are ill at ease is because without the contrast and paradox of meaningful labor, leisure loses its meaning. First you become bored and then you become boring....Bored retirees form bad habits. Purposeless retirees are sick retirees." Are you getting the drift? Apparently, his viewpoint comes from some personal trauma. Although he never completely describes the retirement experience of his parents, it must have been a bad one. Among his references to it is this one: "Many of us have already seen enough of our parents' and forerunners' retirement scenarios to know that this is not the life for us." And the book's back cover reveals, "A living example of the New Retirementality, Mr. Anthony has no plans to ever retire." So, what is the "New Retirementality"? It seems to me that it begins with a solid put-down to retirement as it is generally thought of, mixed then with contradictions about how awful some jobs can be but how the true purpose in life is to find one's true passion in the workplace, concluded by how the new psychology based financial planners and coaches can lead the obviously helpless commoners to true happiness, not in "retirement," since the point has already been made that that is a no-no, but more likely to a state of financial "emancipation," which seems to be more playing with semantics than anything else. Also thrown in to add bulk perhaps are sections on how a good attitude leads to a longer life, basic tips on how to save and accumulate money, tips on how to improve your job situation and evaluate employers, a chapter on how to find happiness, plus profiles of what the author calls "a whole new breed of planners and advisors." The book, in my opinion, presents an unconvincing thesis that there is something to look forward to more than traditional retirement and that he has explained it coherently within the covers of his book.
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Summary: It's Time to Wake-Up to Reality
Review: Mitch Anthony does a wonderful job reminding us that the common expectation of retirement is a very impractical and downright unhealthy. Our concept of retirement is only about three generations old. When Social Security retirement benefits came into being people died about the same time benefits started. We now live decades longer. Yet most people still feel that they are "entitled" to retire in their sixties. Only about 1% of all Americans will be able to retire in their sixties and maintain their standard of living. Why are we stressing ourselves out in jobs we hate hoping to save enough money to buy our freedom, i.e. retire? Add to that stress the guilt we feel because we have not saved nearly a fraction of what it will take. A recent study by AARP showed that most seniors plan to have some sort of gainful employment in their retirement years - out of choice, not financial necessity. It is human nature to be involved and productive throughout our lifetimes. The New Retire-Mentality is a very important wake-up call to help us re-think the "traditional" notion of retirement.
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Summary: Where's the meat?
Review: The book's hypothesis is a good one and Anthony may be on to something here, but he never quite delivers on how exactly to go about it, which is retire when you want to but keep on working on your own terms. The answer, of course, is the same as other retirement books dish out. Have a fat portfolio. It is really another investment planning book in a different guise, and, frankly a lot of the figures he uses are still based on the roaring bull market of the '90s and not the reality of today's market. It is a book pretty much directed at a target audience of the upper middle income baby boomer who wouldn't mind keeping on working after retirement because his work is not all that taxing to begin with. A policeman who has been walking a beat in Watts for 30 years or a Detroit assembly line auto worker would get a big chuckle out of this.
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Summary: The New Retirement: Ultimate Guide To The Rest Of Your Life
Review: The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide To The Rest Of Your Life is the most comprehensive book on the subject that I have seen. I especially recommend this book to those who are about to retire since it provides an excellent self analysis on the type of retirement that would best suit you (and your spouse if you are married). The book covers but goes beyond the typical "where to retire" and the "financial aspects" of retirement and expertly covers subjects of "readiness" for retirement, and "options" on the type of retirement that would be right for you. I have developed many strategies for retirement after having read this book that I would have never even thought of!
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Summary: Save your retirement --read this book!
Review: The New Retirementality by Mitch Anthony is one of the most remarkable books I have ever read. Not since seeing the terrifying opening scenes of The Matrix, have I had the sense of a socially induced reality collapsing so completely. In deconstructing the commonly held assumption that a non-working retirement is the best way to spend the last years of our lives, Mitch Anthony provides readers with an escape route from the Orwellian world of institutional thought control. Save your retirement, read this book!
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