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Retirement:Your New Adventure!: It's your choice to decide if your windshield will be bigger than your rearview mirror
As a reader, you are coming up on what you dreamed about, planned for and looked forward to for many retiring from your professional job and starting a new adventure. The purpose of this book is to help you plan the adventure of your lifetime! You can proceed to design and create what you've dreamed of for years, because it's in your control. This book will not deal with the financial side of retirement planning. This book is totally focused on ideas to help you create your new adventure of retirement. You will be creating your own calendar. How's that for a fresh start! How you choose to fill your calendar is up to you. The author will help you focus on being useful and significant. Creative and productive. He will have you focusing on utilizing your abilities to help others, all the while giving you a tremendous feeling of satisfaction and usefulness. The author stresses the point that you are in control of how you wish to think about planning your new adventure!
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Published April 21, 2021
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March 15, 2021
"Retirement: Your New Adventure!: It's your choice to decide if your windshield will be bigger than your rearview mirror", by Bob Boylan, is a compact, inspirational self-help book about turning your retirement into an adventure. Unlike most books on retirement, which normally focus on finances, Boylan's book is much more than that: It's a decidedly Christian-inspired guide to help you figure out how to turn your retirement dreams into a reality. It may sound like such a simple idea, but more people have trouble planning for this amazing, much-anticipated event than you may realize. This author is here to help you with that. You may be thinking that having money in the bank and your mortgage taken care of are the most you could ever hope for in retirement, but there is much more. Retirement can be a time of adventure, not just packing your profession away in the past. You can have excitement and happiness, because you can have control over it. Control is what most of us crave, and retirement is no exception.
Boylan has crafted the perfect book to get you enthused about generating your own ideas to help your retirement fantasies become realities. With lean prose and a practical mindset, he will show you how to come up with your own calendar, one that works for you, and will coach you into looking forward instead of back, feeling hopeful instead of ho-hum. Turning a new page in your life couldn't feel any better. Deciding how to populate your calendar is your own choice. This is freedom in retirement. Some think retirement is a time to kick back and take it easy, doing little more than sitting in a rocking chair and watching the sun set. If this is what you had in mind, this is fine. You've earned it. But there could be something different for you as well. You don't have to feel as if you're being put out to pasture. You can concentrate on having meaning and purpose in your retirement. This is the time to rediscover yourself and unleash your inner skills and talents. And it doesn't have to be all about you and your needs. You now have the time to reach out to others, to be of service to them, lend a helping hand, become involved with family, friends, and community in ways you could never have before. Happiness and satisfaction can come during your retirement years, and Boylan outlines the perfect ways to accomplish this.
Retirees have a wealth of wisdom and experience. This book shows you how to use your strengths to your advantage, and to help others. While some may think that retirement means closing the door on life, "Retirement: Your New Adventure!", by Bob Boylan, shows you that it could be your new beginning. This author is skilled at getting his points across and generating encouragement, new possibilities, and memorable catchphrases. His number one goal is to show you that YOU are in charge of what you think about retirement and how you can turn it into an adventure.
Boylan has crafted the perfect book to get you enthused about generating your own ideas to help your retirement fantasies become realities. With lean prose and a practical mindset, he will show you how to come up with your own calendar, one that works for you, and will coach you into looking forward instead of back, feeling hopeful instead of ho-hum. Turning a new page in your life couldn't feel any better. Deciding how to populate your calendar is your own choice. This is freedom in retirement. Some think retirement is a time to kick back and take it easy, doing little more than sitting in a rocking chair and watching the sun set. If this is what you had in mind, this is fine. You've earned it. But there could be something different for you as well. You don't have to feel as if you're being put out to pasture. You can concentrate on having meaning and purpose in your retirement. This is the time to rediscover yourself and unleash your inner skills and talents. And it doesn't have to be all about you and your needs. You now have the time to reach out to others, to be of service to them, lend a helping hand, become involved with family, friends, and community in ways you could never have before. Happiness and satisfaction can come during your retirement years, and Boylan outlines the perfect ways to accomplish this.
Retirees have a wealth of wisdom and experience. This book shows you how to use your strengths to your advantage, and to help others. While some may think that retirement means closing the door on life, "Retirement: Your New Adventure!", by Bob Boylan, shows you that it could be your new beginning. This author is skilled at getting his points across and generating encouragement, new possibilities, and memorable catchphrases. His number one goal is to show you that YOU are in charge of what you think about retirement and how you can turn it into an adventure.
April 21, 2021
Focus – on useful and significant, creative and productive retirement!
Colorado author Bob Boylan is a presentation skills trainer and photographer. His company is Successful Presentations, and he travels across the country training middle to senior management. His books to date include STOP BEING PREDICTABLE!, WHAT’S YOUR POINT?, GET EVERYONE ROWING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, LIFE BEATS, BRILLIANT PRESENTATIONS IN 24 HOURS OR LESS, REBALANCE YOUR TIRES, DIFFERENTIATE TO WIN, and now RETIREMENT: YOUR NEW ADVENTURE! His photography is represented by his God’s Gifts Photography – stunning examples of which can be viewed on his website. Bob combines both of these passions as he states, ‘the value of seeing your life through the lens of gratitude.’
The subtitle of Bob’s book is a fine opener – ‘It’s your choice to decide if your windshield is bigger than your rearview mirror.’ As he opens his brief but pungent book, he shares that the Holy Spirit is his chief operating officer and strategic partner, that he is a seed planter, and the purpose of this new book is ‘to plant seeds of hope in the season of your retirement.’
Writing this book at this time of the global pandemic creating anxiety and fear, Bob reminds us that another tough time – the depression of the 1930s – had a similar impact but that we got through it. Stepping away from the effect of the pandemic (and recession) on our financial planning for retirement, he instead focuses on adventure – creating our own calendar, one filled with good works, good times, and good health. ‘I want to help restore and revitalize a person who is about to retire but who is consumed by fear and loss of hope and feels nothing will be as they had hoped’
In a series of short chapters, each containing a cogent thought, Bob emphasizes being as good as you think you are, the power of imagination, getting noticed, have more fun, expect to flourish. stop rehearsing potential disaster, continue to go forward - the future matters more than the past, the mind-body-spirit tripod, ‘your pace becomes your decision – many valuable thoughts (seeds!) that escort us into a happy and meaningful retirement.
Providing graphs and quotes and lists and illustrations and thought starters along the way makes this book a personal diary – one that each of us will – or do - need for a happy life after work. Practical and inspirational, this is a much needed guide, especially now! Recommended.
Colorado author Bob Boylan is a presentation skills trainer and photographer. His company is Successful Presentations, and he travels across the country training middle to senior management. His books to date include STOP BEING PREDICTABLE!, WHAT’S YOUR POINT?, GET EVERYONE ROWING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, LIFE BEATS, BRILLIANT PRESENTATIONS IN 24 HOURS OR LESS, REBALANCE YOUR TIRES, DIFFERENTIATE TO WIN, and now RETIREMENT: YOUR NEW ADVENTURE! His photography is represented by his God’s Gifts Photography – stunning examples of which can be viewed on his website. Bob combines both of these passions as he states, ‘the value of seeing your life through the lens of gratitude.’
The subtitle of Bob’s book is a fine opener – ‘It’s your choice to decide if your windshield is bigger than your rearview mirror.’ As he opens his brief but pungent book, he shares that the Holy Spirit is his chief operating officer and strategic partner, that he is a seed planter, and the purpose of this new book is ‘to plant seeds of hope in the season of your retirement.’
Writing this book at this time of the global pandemic creating anxiety and fear, Bob reminds us that another tough time – the depression of the 1930s – had a similar impact but that we got through it. Stepping away from the effect of the pandemic (and recession) on our financial planning for retirement, he instead focuses on adventure – creating our own calendar, one filled with good works, good times, and good health. ‘I want to help restore and revitalize a person who is about to retire but who is consumed by fear and loss of hope and feels nothing will be as they had hoped’
In a series of short chapters, each containing a cogent thought, Bob emphasizes being as good as you think you are, the power of imagination, getting noticed, have more fun, expect to flourish. stop rehearsing potential disaster, continue to go forward - the future matters more than the past, the mind-body-spirit tripod, ‘your pace becomes your decision – many valuable thoughts (seeds!) that escort us into a happy and meaningful retirement.
Providing graphs and quotes and lists and illustrations and thought starters along the way makes this book a personal diary – one that each of us will – or do - need for a happy life after work. Practical and inspirational, this is a much needed guide, especially now! Recommended.
April 23, 2021
Learn to embrace the exciting opportunities retirement offers.
Bob Boylan, spent his career training middle and senior management to, “Deliver Training that Takes,” and has authored two books on the subject. Now retired himself, he has written this incredibly motivational book, which inspires readers to take responsibility for the rest of their lives, and offers positive suggestions and guidance on how to do so. He is a self-confessed seed planter, and boy does he do it well! After sowing the seeds in his reader’s minds, he explains what he means using examples, and invites you to use the suggestion as a discussion starter, in your head, or with friends and family.
Retirement happens at various ages now, no-longer is it necessarily sixty-five. However, it is, to some, an intimidating prospect. All of a sudden a routine, or a series of them disappear, and instead there’s this open space where order used to be, opportunities to do new things, and no time constraints, for some this can be scary.
This entertaining little book is a self-help guide for those who may be struggling with the loss of this structure. The author is here to help you explore and embrace all the fun, new, and exciting opportunities which await you.
Of course, there may be factors which will automatically affect the options available to you, your mind, body, or spirit may cause some restrictions. However, the author invites you to explore if these obstacles really exist, or are they a self-defence barrier erected against change? After all, some people love change, challenges and new things, but there are also others who don’t, and can’t see the ‘wood for the trees,’ as the saying goes.
You may want to get fitter, explore the world, or your own country more, stay up late, or take on a new hobby. Whatever you want to do the author is here to encourage you to look forward in life, after all as he rightly says, “There is a reason the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror.” He encourages us to think outside the box, and even remove it, reach for our goals, and live those dreams.
Aimed at retirement, I have to say this book will inspire everyone who reads it to be the best they can be. Bob Boylan advises his readers to grab the proverbial bull by the horns, embrace the future, look forward, not back! As the famous quote says, “Life is not about the breaths you take. It’s about the moments that take your breath away.” Highly recommended!
Bob Boylan, spent his career training middle and senior management to, “Deliver Training that Takes,” and has authored two books on the subject. Now retired himself, he has written this incredibly motivational book, which inspires readers to take responsibility for the rest of their lives, and offers positive suggestions and guidance on how to do so. He is a self-confessed seed planter, and boy does he do it well! After sowing the seeds in his reader’s minds, he explains what he means using examples, and invites you to use the suggestion as a discussion starter, in your head, or with friends and family.
Retirement happens at various ages now, no-longer is it necessarily sixty-five. However, it is, to some, an intimidating prospect. All of a sudden a routine, or a series of them disappear, and instead there’s this open space where order used to be, opportunities to do new things, and no time constraints, for some this can be scary.
This entertaining little book is a self-help guide for those who may be struggling with the loss of this structure. The author is here to help you explore and embrace all the fun, new, and exciting opportunities which await you.
Of course, there may be factors which will automatically affect the options available to you, your mind, body, or spirit may cause some restrictions. However, the author invites you to explore if these obstacles really exist, or are they a self-defence barrier erected against change? After all, some people love change, challenges and new things, but there are also others who don’t, and can’t see the ‘wood for the trees,’ as the saying goes.
You may want to get fitter, explore the world, or your own country more, stay up late, or take on a new hobby. Whatever you want to do the author is here to encourage you to look forward in life, after all as he rightly says, “There is a reason the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror.” He encourages us to think outside the box, and even remove it, reach for our goals, and live those dreams.
Aimed at retirement, I have to say this book will inspire everyone who reads it to be the best they can be. Bob Boylan advises his readers to grab the proverbial bull by the horns, embrace the future, look forward, not back! As the famous quote says, “Life is not about the breaths you take. It’s about the moments that take your breath away.” Highly recommended!
April 22, 2021
Adventure ahead! Boylan aims to inspire!
For years, Bob Boylan traveled throughout the country with his company, Successful Presentations, building and sharpening the skills of business professionals. He is also an accomplished nature photographer, who enjoys travelling all over the world to capture the beauty of God’s creation. Bob is the author of several books sharing from his life philosophy and principles of presentation making.
In Boylan’s latest work, Retirement: Your New Adventure!, he challenges those of retirement age to “see hope in the season of your retirement.” Boylan goes in a different direction than most retirement books which handle the practical and financial side of retirement planning. While that’s important, Boylan wants the person approaching or in retirement to consider their life as an adventure. He says, “You are about to retire, and you are in control of how you wish to think about retiring.” At retirement, it can still be a great temptation to define one’s life by the past, by the successful career one enjoyed, but Boylan reminds the reader that “The windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror…your future matters more than your past!”
Boylan squeezes an impressive amount of wisdom into this small book. With 48 sections, he tackles a number of different ideas with warmth, wit, and wisdom. Most of these sections end with “discussion thought-starter” ideas and questions, for the reader to figure out how to apply the ideas within. It would be a great 6-week journey for a reader to read and journal through one section each day.
While this book is titled Retirement: Your New Adventure!, I was quite surprised to realize how applicable this could be for anyone who is in the midst of career or personal transition. The pandemic has many people considering or being forced into career shifts, so this book is timely even for those of us who aren’t quite yet at retirement. While many books aim at the practical aspects of retirement, Boylan’s brief guide to the post-retirement adventure aims to inspire! If you’re on the verge of retirement, or even just considering a new career adventure, this book is absolutely a must-read - practical and encouraging!
For years, Bob Boylan traveled throughout the country with his company, Successful Presentations, building and sharpening the skills of business professionals. He is also an accomplished nature photographer, who enjoys travelling all over the world to capture the beauty of God’s creation. Bob is the author of several books sharing from his life philosophy and principles of presentation making.
In Boylan’s latest work, Retirement: Your New Adventure!, he challenges those of retirement age to “see hope in the season of your retirement.” Boylan goes in a different direction than most retirement books which handle the practical and financial side of retirement planning. While that’s important, Boylan wants the person approaching or in retirement to consider their life as an adventure. He says, “You are about to retire, and you are in control of how you wish to think about retiring.” At retirement, it can still be a great temptation to define one’s life by the past, by the successful career one enjoyed, but Boylan reminds the reader that “The windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror…your future matters more than your past!”
Boylan squeezes an impressive amount of wisdom into this small book. With 48 sections, he tackles a number of different ideas with warmth, wit, and wisdom. Most of these sections end with “discussion thought-starter” ideas and questions, for the reader to figure out how to apply the ideas within. It would be a great 6-week journey for a reader to read and journal through one section each day.
While this book is titled Retirement: Your New Adventure!, I was quite surprised to realize how applicable this could be for anyone who is in the midst of career or personal transition. The pandemic has many people considering or being forced into career shifts, so this book is timely even for those of us who aren’t quite yet at retirement. While many books aim at the practical aspects of retirement, Boylan’s brief guide to the post-retirement adventure aims to inspire! If you’re on the verge of retirement, or even just considering a new career adventure, this book is absolutely a must-read - practical and encouraging!
May 10, 2021
Author Bob Boylan reminds us that there are many paths we take in life, retirement being one of them. He acknowledges that some people have anxiety, have loss of self-identity and self-worth when life changes after retirement.
He recommends looking forward instead of looking back – in his words: “It’s your choice to decide if your windshield will be bigger than your rearview mirror.” His advice is to become creative and productive, use your strengths to help others and contribute to society as well as the causes you feel strongly about.
Another recommendation is to live life fearlessly. If you want to go on a vacation to a far away paradise, go for it. If you want to take up glass blowing or hiking and you have the agility and stamina by all means give it a try. Retirement isn’t sitting in your easy chair watching TV unless that is what you want it to be. Your path is what makes you happy and what you are physically able to accomplish.
The conclusion is, make your retirement what you want, how you want and relax. This is the start of the newest chapter in your life, make it a great one.
This book was a fast read. It did not provide any new ideas about retirement. Much like the advice of a life coach, Boylan brings to light information that most retirees or those soon to be retired already know. I do not think reading about all the possibilities of retiring he lists speaks to individuals that are questioning his or her plans to retire. It is a personal choice. He is basically saying to keep contributing to society in a way that makes you happy and try new things.
Boylan has written several other self-help books. Each of them focuses on work life, such as making effective presentations, leadership roles and life balance.
DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: I have a material connection because I received a review copy from Scott Lorenz and the author in exchange for a fair and honest review. Copyright © 2021 Laura Hartman
He recommends looking forward instead of looking back – in his words: “It’s your choice to decide if your windshield will be bigger than your rearview mirror.” His advice is to become creative and productive, use your strengths to help others and contribute to society as well as the causes you feel strongly about.
Another recommendation is to live life fearlessly. If you want to go on a vacation to a far away paradise, go for it. If you want to take up glass blowing or hiking and you have the agility and stamina by all means give it a try. Retirement isn’t sitting in your easy chair watching TV unless that is what you want it to be. Your path is what makes you happy and what you are physically able to accomplish.
The conclusion is, make your retirement what you want, how you want and relax. This is the start of the newest chapter in your life, make it a great one.
This book was a fast read. It did not provide any new ideas about retirement. Much like the advice of a life coach, Boylan brings to light information that most retirees or those soon to be retired already know. I do not think reading about all the possibilities of retiring he lists speaks to individuals that are questioning his or her plans to retire. It is a personal choice. He is basically saying to keep contributing to society in a way that makes you happy and try new things.
Boylan has written several other self-help books. Each of them focuses on work life, such as making effective presentations, leadership roles and life balance.
DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: I have a material connection because I received a review copy from Scott Lorenz and the author in exchange for a fair and honest review. Copyright © 2021 Laura Hartman
May 6, 2021
I loved this entertaining and enlightening self-help guide for those who may be struggling with the loss of structure in their lives. The author has many ideas to help you explore and embrace all the fun, new, and exciting opportunities which await you.
April 21, 2021
Following a successful career as a corporate ‘independent presentation skills trainer,’ Bob Boylan stepped off the treadmill and became a renowned landscape photographer. But that didn’t dampen his life’s mission as a ‘planter of ideas to creatively encourage and inspire’ people to reach well beyond their grasp. In one of his latest books, Retirement: Your New Adventure!, Boylan took all his wisdom, knowledge and faith based principles to create a guidebook for ‘gearing down’ and then ‘gearing up’ in retirement.
Boylan endeavors to encourage retirees to ‘gear up’ as a necessity to ‘leading a life that will leave the kind of legacy you want.’ Giving back for blessings received is a core message and he accomplished that goal extremely well, however, this book goes far beyond that and has good advice for people of all ages and situations. Those embarking on a new phase in life, personal or professional, can definitely utilize the ideas and beliefs put forth by Boylan. A key message for everyone is this: ‘Don’t listen the naysayers who rain on your parade, mock your plans or put down your ambitions, no matter what your age.’
Predicated on the assumption that one has created a solid financial basis for retirement, Boylan crafted a series of 49 short vignettes which are divided into three sections: 1) Primary message, 2) Discussion thought-starters (series of questions), 3) Quotes to enhance the primary message. Not more than two-pages each, they include titles like, The Windshield is Bigger than the Rearview Mirror, Be as Good as You Think You Are, Your Options…Retire or Redirect or See Your Life Through the Lens of Gratitude.
His genuine desire for people to reach their full potential jumps out of the pages with clarity, verve and love. If after reading the book one wants to speak with Bob personally, then just go to the last page and look up his phone number.
Brad Butler, Author of A World Flight Over Russia
Boylan endeavors to encourage retirees to ‘gear up’ as a necessity to ‘leading a life that will leave the kind of legacy you want.’ Giving back for blessings received is a core message and he accomplished that goal extremely well, however, this book goes far beyond that and has good advice for people of all ages and situations. Those embarking on a new phase in life, personal or professional, can definitely utilize the ideas and beliefs put forth by Boylan. A key message for everyone is this: ‘Don’t listen the naysayers who rain on your parade, mock your plans or put down your ambitions, no matter what your age.’
Predicated on the assumption that one has created a solid financial basis for retirement, Boylan crafted a series of 49 short vignettes which are divided into three sections: 1) Primary message, 2) Discussion thought-starters (series of questions), 3) Quotes to enhance the primary message. Not more than two-pages each, they include titles like, The Windshield is Bigger than the Rearview Mirror, Be as Good as You Think You Are, Your Options…Retire or Redirect or See Your Life Through the Lens of Gratitude.
His genuine desire for people to reach their full potential jumps out of the pages with clarity, verve and love. If after reading the book one wants to speak with Bob personally, then just go to the last page and look up his phone number.
Brad Butler, Author of A World Flight Over Russia
May 9, 2021
Seeds of hope and creativity for the moment of retirement.
In this edifying book entitled "Retirement Your new adventure", the author Job Boylan presents retirement from a very fresh, pleasant and different point of view where we will not find the usual abstract and dense financial treatises on how to handle this stage of our lives. From the graphs and the numbers, on the contrary, he presents the subject to us from the analogy of a sowing of seeds, in this case seeds of new ideas and habits, emphasizing the importance of changing our mentality and seeing our retirement as the new one. funniest, most exciting and happiest adventure of the rest of our lives, the need to look not so much at the rear view mirror of existence but at the front glass in all its breadth. The importance of the mind, body and spirit triad as the foundation of our generating ideas, change, seek new passions, learn new things, be daring by designing how we will live from now on being productive, breaking schemes and paradigms of our busy previous life, the The author transmits us a lot of optimism, hope, enthusiasm and faith, demonstrating the importance of being useful to ourselves and also to other people, success begins from our ideas and attitudes no matter how old we are.
Recommended for all people who want to live their retirement as an experience of personal reinvention and happiness.
In this edifying book entitled "Retirement Your new adventure", the author Job Boylan presents retirement from a very fresh, pleasant and different point of view where we will not find the usual abstract and dense financial treatises on how to handle this stage of our lives. From the graphs and the numbers, on the contrary, he presents the subject to us from the analogy of a sowing of seeds, in this case seeds of new ideas and habits, emphasizing the importance of changing our mentality and seeing our retirement as the new one. funniest, most exciting and happiest adventure of the rest of our lives, the need to look not so much at the rear view mirror of existence but at the front glass in all its breadth. The importance of the mind, body and spirit triad as the foundation of our generating ideas, change, seek new passions, learn new things, be daring by designing how we will live from now on being productive, breaking schemes and paradigms of our busy previous life, the The author transmits us a lot of optimism, hope, enthusiasm and faith, demonstrating the importance of being useful to ourselves and also to other people, success begins from our ideas and attitudes no matter how old we are.
Recommended for all people who want to live their retirement as an experience of personal reinvention and happiness.
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