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Retire Smart Retire Happy: Finding Your True Path in Life

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Monday, November 17, 2003
Dear Ms. Schlossberg:

I am quick to fire off letters of complaint. I send letters of praise only rarely. But I am sending you a letter of praise now for your book "Retire Smart Retire Happy."

I consider it the best of the three books of yours that I read. Is it really a better book? Or, is it because the topic is most meaningful for me? I don't really know. It is most thoroughly researched and well-organized, with a clear road map for the reader. Organizing the case studies must have been especially difficult, but it was done well.

I cannot say that it's a "good read," because a read-through is only the beginning. I shall have to go back to complete the questionnaires and ponder some of the responses long and hard.

As for carrying out the advice - that will be the hardest part. I feel as though I just completed a counseling course. Now I have to be able to recognize the "true path" or "paths," and attempt to traverse it/them.

You did a great job. This book should get wide dissemination. I certainly plan to talk it up.

Best,

Mildred K. Glazer

I read your book with enthusiasm and find it very informative and most helpful in understanding how people from varying backgrounds think about and face retirement. Your book is very timely; there is none other like it. Your book is important because you address real life feelings and concerns in a way that most books do not. You talk about how people feel and think about their past as they face the future and live retirement, how they often discover a self they were not aware of before, how they change, how they cope, how they reinvent and create new fulfilling lives. An important book for all who are retiring or are about to retire.

This book is a must-read for anyone whose retirement looms large. It's written in a down-to-earth style, with lots of apt examples to bring it all home. The Transition Tips and Internal Audits at the end of each chapter help the reader track his/her own situation, and as a result utilize the results under the author's skillful tutelage. You will recognize yourself in this pithy book, and learn a great deal in the process.

Dr. Schlossberg's book "Retire Smart, Retire Happy" describes transitions retired people face. Her hip style is infectious, her tips for navigating unknown channels astute. Dr. Schlossberg answers your questions before you ask them, before you even knew you had them. Harry Belafonte says, "If you want to be happy for the rest of your life . . .." I say read this book. It works.