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Retirement; It's Not Just About The Money
How To Have Fun, Keep Your Brain Alert, and Make Extra Money After You Retire

By Susan Klopfer

Publication Date: January 2013

Retirement  -- It’s Not Just About the Money

How To Have Fun, Keep Your Brain Alert, and Make Extra Money After You Retire

Summary

If retirement is ONLY about having a BIG nest egg, "that's boring, does nothing healthy for your brain, and can worry some people to death," says Susan Klopfer. She asserts the best retirement plan focuses on keeping an active mind and finding meaningful things to do. Being happy, finding ways to earn extra money and keeping your mind alert has the biggest payoff potential for the person who is retired; this is her book’s major theme. Anger, worry and fear do nothing for retirees, but make them sick, says Klopfer. The retired journalist walks three miles each day, a new habit she picked up after moving to Cuenca, Ecuador as an expat. She belongs to a local writer’s club and gets up at 5 a.m. each day to work on her writing projects. Susan and her husband, Fred, are learning to speak Spanish and enjoy discovering new facts South American culture. “We have it all, as expats who keep physically and mentally active. We attend symphonies, theatre and enjoy local museums and lectures. We take short trips around the country and listen to jazz at a local jazz club. And we pick out our fresh fruits and vegetables in local markets, when they are fresh from the fields.” Klopfer says the decision to move away from her country of birth “was our best financial plan, after losing our retirement shirts when the stock market fell.” The author tells readers, “This is NOT a book about traditional financial planning and building a big nest egg before retirementt, but it is a book that holds true to its title.” She presents dozens of workable ideas and supporting links in each of the three categories: having fun, keeping alert, and making spare money. “I want readers to stop worrying and start working on plans they can achieve, while staying active and happy in retirement.”

ISBN-10:

0982604963

ISBN-13:

978-0-9826049-6-0

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Susan Klopfer, author, speaker, and blogger, writes and talks about retirement, diversity and civil rights. Klopfer is an award-winning journalist and a former acquisitions and development editor for Prentice Hall. Her computer book, "Abort, Retry, Fail!" was named an alternate selection by the Book of-the-Month Club. Susan holds a B.A. degree in Communication from Hanover College and an M.B.A. from Indiana Wesleyan University. She is currently writing a retirement ebook, Ready to Retire? Way to Go! A Guide to Peaceful and Happy Retirement. Her newest ebook, Cash In On Diversity, is available through Smashwords. "Who Killed Emmett Till," "Where Rebels Roost; Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited" and "The Emmett Till Book" are carried in most online bookstores including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Lulu.com. Klopfer's civil rights books emphasize unsolved murders of Delta blacks from mid 1950s onward. 

Learn More About Susan and Retirement Issues at Retirement Monologues.