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The Retirement: It’s… Series
Retirement is about much more than your pension.
Retirement is one of the biggest transitions we make in adult life.
Money matters. But so do the emotions that come with leaving work, the loss or change of routine and identity, and the question of what you actually want life to look like afterwards.
The Retirement: It’s… series explores those different parts of retirement in straightforward, everyday language.
No jargon. No assumption that retirement looks the same for everyone.
Just practical guidance to help you think more clearly about the next stage of your life.
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About the Book
You could retire on paper.
So why does it still feel like such a big decision?
For many people approaching retirement, the problem isn't simply a lack of money or pensions.
It's a lack of clarity and confidence.
You may find yourself asking:
- Can I really afford to retire?
- What if I stop too early and regret it?
- What if I leave it too late and miss some of my healthiest years?
- What am I actually retiring to?
- How do I turn pensions and savings into an income I can trust?
Retirement: It’s Personal brings together the three areas I believe need to work together for a successful retirement:
Money — understanding what you have, what you need and how it can support you.
Emotions — dealing with uncertainty, fear, guilt and the psychological shift from working to retirement.
Lifestyle — thinking about what you actually want your days, weeks and years to look like.
Drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with people approaching and entering retirement, the book is designed to help you replace anxious guesswork with clearer, more confident decisions.
Want to know more about the author? Visit Richard Cakans’ Amazon Author Page
Retirement: It’s Emotional
The emotional journey before, during and after retirement
You can be financially ready to retire...
…and still not feel ready.
That's the starting point for Retirement: It’s Emotional.
Because retirement doesn't just change where your income comes from.
It can change your routine.
Your identity.
Your relationships.
Your sense of purpose.
And even your relationship with money.
This book explores the emotional journey people can experience before retirement, during the transition and once retirement becomes everyday life.
It looks at subjects we don't always talk about when discussing retirement, including:
- Why retirement can suddenly start to feel very real
- Doubt and fear before finishing work
- Identity beyond your job
- Excitement, guilt and giving yourself permission to retire
- Being financially ready but not emotionally ready
- The strange feeling of the first quiet week
- The retirement honeymoon — and the dip that can follow
- Anxiety when the monthly salary stops
- Creating structure without simply replacing work
- Relationships when retirement changes the way you spend your time
- Finding purpose without putting yourself under pressure
- How retirement continues to change as you get older
Retirement: It’s Emotional isn't about telling you how you should feel.
It's about helping you understand why you may feel the way you do.
Because being ready for retirement doesn't necessarily mean having no doubts.
Sometimes it means understanding them.
YOU CAN AFFORD TO RETIRE. SO WHY DON'T YOU FEEL READY?
Want to know more about the author? Visit Richard Cakans’ Amazon Author Page
How the Books Fit Together
Retirement is too important — and too personal — to look at through one lens.
Retirement: It’s Personal
The whole picture.
Money, emotions and lifestyle brought together to help you decide when and how you want to retire.
Retirement: It’s Emotional
How retirement feels.
The thoughts, fears, changes and emotions that can appear before, during and after retirement.
Retirement: It’s Lifestyle
What you're retiring to.
A future book looking more closely at how to create a retirement with purpose, enjoyment, relationships and a lifestyle that is right for you.
The subjects overlap because real life overlaps.
Money affects how we feel.
How we feel affects the decisions we make.
And neither means very much unless we have some idea of the life we're trying to create.
That's what the Retirement: It’s… series is about.
Not simply reaching retirement.
Living it well.
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