How to Re-Attire Your Retirement and Embrace Life 2.0

Book excerpt: The notion of retirement is gone. This was a 20th-century innovation. It didn’t exist in the 19th century, and it’s not going to exist in the 21st century. The notion that you’re born, go to school, get a job, retire, and die is gone. You’re not going to do that anymore. - Ric Edelman (Founder and Executive Chairman, Edelman) Today, the post-retirement life or Life Two nearly equals pre-retirement or full-time working life, Life One. This practice book titled How to Re-attire Your Retirement and Embrace Life 2.0is split into parts, with self-experiences of training, my stories, out-of-the-box stories, planned activities, and suggested tasks for readers and legal authorities, offers a simple strategy, “Perform planned activities as a career in Life Two or lead a wasteful retired life by withdrawing from all activities (retiring). It is backed by facts, figures, doctors’ revelations, and examples of celebrities, industrialists, and common persons, who are leading a happy Life Two by retiring the term “retirement” from their life. The Japanese lessons of Ikigai for living long have also been included. Let us all practice and perform tasks to lead a happy Life 2.0.