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Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
The authors encourage "thoughtful impulsiveness" in their guide to exploring retirement activities and options. The book is highly reader-friendly and very easy to follow.
The Gussins both had highly demanding jobs in the field of science and medicine and opted to explore other avenues during a transitional period to retirement. Obviously, the couple have financial security in order to explore those options, but they are quick to suggest that lack of financial funding should not limit the hopes and dreams of the reader.
The book is a mixture of memoir and transitional stages, in which both delineate their personal dreams and then use thoughtfulness and a bit of impulsiveness, setting forth on the path to the realization of those dreams. They suggest that retirement should be viewed as "graduation," but this reviewer believes that the term "transitional shifts" might pose as less stressful for the reader contemplating changes. The underlying theme is one of belief in self or personal efficacy, something that most pre-retirees can garner from their years of job service and training. Taking that sense of personal efficacy into the retirement years appears to be a combination of right-time, right-place and personal motivation.
And yes, the guide is believable as attested to by this reviewer, who went from full-time homemaker to doctoral student to licensed clinical psychologist to author (following retirement). The book is an inspiration to those asking the question: What's next for me?
