The Platinum Living Network

I knew I would probably recommend this book from the moment I read the title. But the subtitle put me over the top - " 5 Steps to Fulfilling Work That Fuels Your Passion , Suits Your Personality , and Fills Your Pocket " In setting forth these three attributes, the authors, Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners, apply their 25 years of experience in personal and professional transition counseling to identify the key ingredients of a successful "second half of life." I have written pretty extensively about the importance of pursuing our passions at all stages of life, and we have dabbled with personality issues, particularly through our recommendations of the book Authentic Happiness and the associated website, www.authentichappiness.org , where you can find a number of free personality tests. And although I have not written directly about filling our pockets in retirement, or "rewirement," this idea is implicit in my encouragements not to take social security ...

If you’ve been around here for very long, you know that I’d just as soon retire the word “retirement” from the dictionary, even though we haven’t really come up with an acceptable substitute yet. But make no mistake about it, we are witnessing a cultural phenomenon that is rapidly changing the way we view the final 1/3 of our lives. Today’s piece of evidence is blog article from Contemporary Retirement called “ Has retirement become a dirty word? ” which in turn refers to a New York Times article, “ Whatever You Do, Call It Work .” Both the blog article and the Times piece relate how uncomfortable many people already are at referring to themselves as “retired.” In the past, it was fairly normal for such changes to take a generation or so, with holders of the old ideas literally having to die off in order for the new to take hold. Our attitudes towards such things as smoking and alcohol consumption, sexual mores, political ideas, etc. take years to work their way through the culture...