Retirement: The First 365 Days

Day-to-Day Advice for Happiness in Retirement

By: George Szlemp

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Make the most of the rest of your life!

You’ve just retired. It’s a huge life change! How do you make the transition to post-employment? This inspirational collection of wisdom and witticisms, offering insights, experience, and encouragement, is an entertaining guide to having a purposeful and fulfilling retirement.

It's a comprehensive look at the day-to-day retirement experience, exploring what to expect when you retire. With real-time advice to motivate and maintain your happiness as you move into your new post-employment lifestyle, you will discover how to:

• Understand the process of retirement, including exploring a new identity, purpose, and sense of community and family
• Navigate new expectations, relationships, and physical health
• Feel healthy in your whole mind, body, and spirit
• Make every day count
• Have a retirement filled with purpose and meaning

In this unique book, you will find 365 days of sincere and genuine experiences of the first year of retirement. The daily essays explore this stage of your life from a day-to-day perspective and offer insight and guidance on how to be a happier retiree. While reading this book, you may have some laughs while learning a new way of looking at retirement.

Retirement: The First 365 Days also makes an ideal gift for that recently retired person in your life. It offers many enjoyable hours of insightful observations, advice, and opinions.

Here begins the next chapter of your life. Congratulations! Enjoy retirement. You deserve it.

Interesting but in need of editing

I am retiring this week. I'm very interested in the decisions I'll be called on to answer and the answers that a thoughtful person came up with to those questions. This is that. I found it thought provoking. But it is about 60% too long and would benefit from some context at the beginning about the authors life pre retirement and then a postscript on what has happened since the book closed. Writing an entry everyday was a good way to come up with a manuscript but it needs a brutal edit. It is repetitive and full of cliches. I read it while doing other things so tuned in and out. I'd like to see it re-edited an reissued. It is a topic that needs more resources.

The virtual voice is horrible

Story was good. It was an honest look at retirement, but the virtual voice should never be used to ever again on any book. It was horrible.

Very basic

I applaud the effort of the author keeping a daily journal for the first 365 days of his retirement but what a basic, simple, and dare I say boring book. Perhaps there’s some enlightening content on day 200 but I couldn’t listen past 76. Not worth the listen.

Some good advice

The narration is awful. Such a personal account could have really benefited from a personal voice that pronounced words properly. Some good observations from the writer however.

Concise, informative and helpful

Great insight and is an enjoyable book with practical guidance. Have fun exploring and developing your journey.