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The Joy of Being Retired: 365 Reasons Why Retirement Rocks — and Work Sucks!

Business & Money

Zelinski, Ernie J.

Personal Finance

Ernie Zelinski could change your view of the world forever. He has already taught more than 150,000 people what THE JOY OF NOT WORKING is all about: learning to live every part of your life-employment, unemployment, retirement, and leisure time alike-to the fullest. With this completely revised and expanded edition, you too can join the thousands of converts and learn to thrive at both work and at play. Illustrated by eye-opening exercises, thought-provoking diagrams, and lively cartoons and quotations, THE JOY OF NOT WORKING will guide you to:Be more productive at work by working less.Discover and pursue your life'¬?s passions.Gain the courage to leave your corporate job if it is draining life out of you.Pursue interesting leisure activities that make a difference in your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.Vanquish any guilt you may have about not working long and hard hours.Be financially independent with less money.Plus, new to this edition are inspiring letters from readers detailing how the book helped them improve the variety, tone, and quality of their lives.A revised and updated edition of the classic guide to living life to its fullest.Previous editions have sold more than 150,000 copies in 14 languages.

The Joy of Not Working: How To Enjoy Your Leisure Time Like Never Before

Humor & Entertainment

Retirement does not have to mean the end of life-in fact it can mean a whole new beginning to the life you never had time to explore. In HOW TO RETIRE HAPPY, WILD, AND FREE, best-selling author Ernie J. Zelinksi shows that the key to enjoying an active and satisfying retirement is dependent on much more than just having adequate financial resources. It means paying attention to all aspects of life, including leisure activities, creative pursuits, physical and mental well-being, and solid social support. With its friendly format, lively cartoons, and captivating quotations, Zelinski'¬?s guide offers inspirational advice on how to follow your dreams instead of someone else'¬?s, how to put your retirement in proper perspective, and how to enjoy life after work. A retirement guide from best-selling author Ernie J. Zelinski. Features tips for taking early retirement; in fact, the earlier the better. Ernie J. Zelinski'¬?s best-selling THE JOY OF NOT WORKING has sold more than 150,000 copies in 15 languages.

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free Retirement wisdom that you won't get from your financial advisor

Zelinski, Ernie

Parenting & Relationships

Career Success and Personal Freedom -- You Can Have Both Career success is much more than having a real job and earning a decent income. Real career success is truly enjoying what you do for a living and having the personal freedom to perform your work virtually any time you want. This one-of-a-kind career guide by the author of international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free (over 390,000 copies sold) challenges and inspires you to: 
<ul>
<li>Create your own dream job or operate an unconventional business. </li>
<li>Find your own important mission, true calling, or passionate pursuit with which you can make a great living. </li>
<li>Gain courage to escape the corporate world so that you don't have to spend the rest of your life trapped in a cubicle. </li>
<li>Be creative and have fun in your work. </li>
<li>Restructure your life so that it has meaning, direction, and joy. </li>
<li>Take charge of your physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual well-being. </li>
<li>Experience true personal freedom in all areas of your life. </li>
<li>Above all, get the most out of your life -- personally and professionally!</li>
</ul>This revolutionary career book is for those millions of organizationally averse people who would like to break free of corporate life so that they have complete control over their lives. Throughout the book you will read about several ordinary individuals who have attained extraordinary success without a real job. International best-selling author Ernie Zelinski, whose books have sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide, also uses experiences from his own life to show how the powerful success principles on the pages within can help you joyfully avoid the shackles of the corporate world for the rest of your life. Positive, lively, and captivating, Career Success Without a Real Job is designed to help you live an extraordinary lifestyle that is the envy of the corporate world -- it truly is the career book for people too smart to work in corporations!

Career Success without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations

Zelinski Visions International Publishing, Ernie J.

Business Culture

This is an inspirational guide with 101 short life lessons that will help you live a happier, healthier, and wealthier life and will make your life more enjoyable day-by-day, year-by-year. "101 Really Important Things You Already Know But Keep Forgetting" addresses many inspirational, spiritual, and motivational topics related to success, personal development, stress management, and health, body &amp; mind. This guide is about all those really important life lessons that virtually all of us have already learned but - for some mysterious reason - keep forgetting. Adopting even one of these sometimes basic - sometimes profound - 101 concepts of living will help you experience a more meaningful, more relaxed lifestyle filled with achievement, successs, prosperity, happiness, and fulfillment. As an Amazon reviewer said, "This book is better than therapy! There is not one page of this book that doesn't have meaning to everyone's personal life experiences." Another Amazon reviewer claims that this book has the most down-to-earth advice that you will ever encounter in a book. "MANY of the ideas in here can't be found any where else, or at least explained the way they are here any where else. I'm a fan of logic, and this book starts out with an idea,then through simple logic and examples explains how that idea is true. However, some can be unpopular, but that doesn't stop Ernie. Such as 51: "It doesn't cost much to be kind, but it can be very costly being too kind." What You Will Discover - or Rediscover - by Reading This Book 
<ul>
<li>Too much safety is dangerous for your well-being.</li>
<li>Predict your failures and you will become a highly successful prophet.</li>
<li>Don't buy expensive socks if you can never find them.</li>
<li>Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people.</li>
<li>It's always easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble.</li>
<li>Being right at all costs is like being a dead hero - there is no payoff!</li>
<li>Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.</li>
<li>You don't have to watch one minute of TV to be happy - and perhaps you shouldn't</li>
<li>To double your success rate, just double your failure rate.</li>
<li>Ten million dollars cannot buy what great friendship can.</li>
<li>If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.</li>
</ul>Above all, "101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting" presents priceless advice that will help you live a happier, healthier, and wealthier life!

101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting: How to Make Your Life More Enjoyable Day-by-Day, Year-by-Year

Self-Help

Motivational

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy life to its fullest. The key to achieving an active and satisfying retirement involves a great deal more than having adequate financial resources; it also encompasses all other aspects of life -- interesting leisure activities, creative pursuits, physical well-being, mental well-being, and solid social support. World-class author and innovator Ernie J. Zelinski guides you to: 
<ul>
<li>Gain courage to take early retirement; in fact, the earlier the better.</li>
<li> Put money in proper perspective so that you don't need a million dollars to retire.</li>
<li> Generate purpose in your retirement life with meaningful creative pursuits.</li>
<li> Follow your dreams instead of someone else's.</li>
<li> Take charge of your mental, physical, and spiritual health.</li>
<li> Better envision you retirement goals -- including where you want to live.</li>
<li> Above all, make you retirement years the best time of your life.</li>
</ul>
What sets this retirement book apart from all the others is its holistic approach to the fears, hopes, and dreams that people have about retirement. This international bestseller (over 110,000 copies sold in its first edition) goes way beyond the numbers that is often the main focus of retirement planning in most retirement books. 
There are many ingredients of a happy retirement and several retirement planning tools that help retirees plan for their retirement in new and more meaningful ways. One of the most powerful tools is The Get-a-Life Tree that you won't find in any other retirement books. 
In short, the retirement wisdom in this book will prove to be much more important than how much money you have saved. How to Retire Happy Wild, and Free helps readers create an active, satisfying, and happy retirement in a way such that they don't need a million dollars to retire.

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor

A moving parable about extraordinary success and how to achieve it: Look Ma, Life’s Easy is reminiscent of the soul-stirring Illusions by Richard Bach and the heart-warming The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robert Sharma. Superbly blending important success principles with eternal spiritual wisdom, this inspirational fable teaches as it delights. It can enrich and enhance the life of every person who would like to accomplish more in this world. Look Ma, Life's Easy presents a story of transformation that will inspire ordinary individuals to feel like they too can truly achieve extraordinary results and make a big difference in this world. Sheldon, a young adult, meets Brock, a successful middle-aged man who has attained extraordinary success and remarkable prosperity in his life, and the story unfolds. This is an important book for mature audiences as well as an important one for young adults. Look Ma, Life’s Easy is a delightfully insightful guide for making your wildest dreams come true. It is filled with gems of wisdom that, if used as directed, will not only help you make a big difference in this world, but will also result in your attaining extraordinary success and remarkable prosperity.

Look Ma, Life’s Easy: How Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success and Remarkable Prosperity

Zelinski Visions International Pub, Ernie J.

Religion & Spirituality

We all experience this feeling: How do I make a real difference in this world? How can I be inspired to play the game of life so that I am useful, so that I matter, so that I count, so that I stand for something, and above all, so that I make a difference that leaves the world a better place than when I arrived? Indeed, all of us want to make a difference in this world whether we acknowledge it or not. Doing our best to make a difference is how we instill our lives with meaning. Helping others makes us feel good about ourselves. So how can we be inspired to do this? Help is at hand because this delightfully insightful guide gives us inspirational reminders and profound wisdom that will help each one of us make our mark on this world. These proverbs convey universal wisdom that, once acknowledged and embraced, can help every one of us create a more fulfilling life and a better world. This handbook will be particularly useful for those of us who have outgrown cynicism, doubt, criticism, blame, and a sense of entitlement. It will help us stop any self-sabotaging behavior that is interfering with our attaining the achievement, success, and prosperity that we would like in our lives. The original edition of Life's Secret Handbook first appeared fictionally in Ernie Zelinski's inspirational novel Look Ma, Life's Easy. In Zelinski's novel, Sheldon, a young adult, meets Brock, a highly successful middle-aged man, who has attained extraordinary results in his life, and the story unfolds. As part of the story, Sheldon finds a mysterious book of inspirational proverbs called Life's Secret Handbook.  As the narrative in Look Ma, Life's Easy continues, the proverbs appear liberally throughout the book. Sheldon regularly searches Life's Secret Handbook for self-reflection and valuable insights. He also uses the guidebook for inspiration to better his life and the world around him. You too can make Life's Secret Handbook an experience of self-discovery and enlightenment. Indeed, each page can be an exercise for your mind! Some of the passages are inspirational. Some are spiritual. Some are proactive. Best of all, this real edition of Life's Secret Handbook has over three times as many life-changing passages as appeared in Look Ma, Life's Easy. It's best to read this handbook with an open mind and a relaxed soul. Apply the passages that resonate with you and set aside those that don't for another time. Open this handbook to a new page every morning and read your inspirational lesson for the day. Alternatively pick it up and open it at random when there is something bothering you or when you feel that you have to learn something important. You may be amazed at what you find. "Simply magical," you may say. On the other hand, you may open it and get nothing, for the moment, anyway; yet later the passage will resonate with you big time. In some way, it will inspire you to take action toward making your wildest dreams come true. Regardless of the way you choose to use this handbook, the passages will lift your spirits, help you achieve personal growth, and remind you about what it takes to experience the power of being a truly creative individual while you are making a difference in this world. By their very nature, great passages wind up on refrigerator doors, in after-dinner speeches, in newspaper articles, and in best-selling books. These gems of wisdom will too; they will likely have a life span long after most of us are gone. In short, this handbook tells people how the universe works. It's for those who want the universe to work in their favor. You may want to refer to Life's Secret Handbook time and time again for pearls of wisdom and reminders to keep you inspired enough to make your mark on this world and get rewarded for it with satisfaction and prosperity.

Life's Secret Handbook: Reminders for Adventurous Souls Who Want to Make a Big Difference in This World

365 Reasons Why Retirement Rocks ― and Work Sucks! Get ready to transform yourself for a happy and satisfying retirement with reminders and advice from international best-selling author Ernie J. Zelinski whose two other blockbuster retirement books (The Joy of Not Working and How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free) have sold over 700,000 copies. THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND RETIREMENT BOOK WILL INSPIRE YOU TO: 
<ul>
<li>Gain courage to escape the corporate world so that you don't spend the rest of your life trapped in a cubicle.</li>
<li>Create more time in your life by slowing down.</li>
<li>Regularly indulge in a good measure of creative loafing.</li>
<li>Concentrate on the things that really matter and be oblivious to everything else.</li>
<li>Experience true personal freedom in all areas of your life.</li>
<li>Live life on your own terms and not someone else's.</li>
</ul>
 Ernie J. Zelinski combines cartoon images, humor, and wisdom to provide plenty of reasons (415 in all ― not only 365) to sit back, put up your feet, and use the power of creativity to get the most out of your retirement life. This unconventional guide is for those millions of organizationally averse individuals who would like to have complete control over their lives. In short, The Joy of Being Retired will inspire you to live an extraordinary lifestyle that you cannot live while working in the corporate world.

The Joy of Being Retired: 365 Reasons Why Retirement Rocks ― and Work Sucks!

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