Is This Your Plan to Retire? by Charles Kuster

This book offers readers an eye-opening retirement readiness reality check. The main purpose of the book is to simply raise awareness that modern retirement is more difficult than most assume. The book is full of potential solutions, including strategic ideas, planning tools, and communication aids. The book is an honest, thoughtful, and sometimes painfully personal look at what getting older means. It includes poignant accounts of struggles and successes. Retiree input from early, mid and late retirement phases are included. The author then shows how decisions made (or ignored) early in planning so often create issues for the retiree and advocates. The book offers a number of new concepts for readers to consider. An especially powerful one is the importance of developing three harmonized plans - (1) a legal plan, (2) a financial plan and the most important of all yet often neglected - (3) a lifestyle plan. OTHER CORE CONCEPTS DEVELOPED INCLUDE: Why you need to own your plan and communicate clearly with family and advocates; How to address health, financial and social obstacles; How to manage retirement as a process and not an event; How to harmonize the three most important elements of retirement planning; How to select and lead your advocates; How to capitalize on new support services and products. Anyone in his/her early 50s and wondering where he/she is truly ready for todays retirement environment would find this book a high-value investment.