What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement: Planning Now for the Life You Want (What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement: Planning Now for the) @ richardeward.com

What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement: Planning Now for the Life You Want (What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement: Planning Now for the)
by Richard Nelson Bolles, John E. Nelson
from Ten Speed Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A Reasoned Leap of Faith
  Richard Bolles and John Nelson lead people planning reitement through an exploraation of who they are and who they want to be. Through a wholistic approach, the future retiree is given the tools to examine the main issues involved in planning retirement. How to look at one's health, finances, environment, passions and social needs are put forth. A great manual for looking at what retirement can be for you.

• Disappointment
  Certainly not cut from the same cloth as the original "What Color . . ." publication. Far too much time spent discussing basics so widely covered elsewhere. I had hoped that there would be more "tools" provided for relevant decision making. This was a waste of good money.

• Good checklist
  This book covers things you might not have considered when looking at retirement, and encourages you to think about what's important in your life. It's a good guidebook for retirement.

• Great read with great guidance and great referrals
  This book is simply the best broad treatment of issues for the prospective retiree or already retired person that I am aware of. It covers all the bases and is presented in an easy-to-read style. It is meant to appeal to readers from a broad background and thus has content which is trivial in places (to me). But don't make reviewer George Fulmore's mistake of confusing the occasional trivial, repetitive, or (intentionally) internally contradictory words as meaningless or worthless: nothing could be further... more info

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