Too Young to Retire: An Off-The Road Map to the Rest of Your Life

With Americans living longer, healthier lives, the conventional idea of retirement is obsolete. Millions of Americans are working past the age of sixty-five?not because they have to, but because they want to. Many, like Marika and Howard Stone, discover second careers, start their own businesses, or go back to school.

Based on the popular website 2young2retire.com, Too Young to Retire offers inventive and exciting retirement alternatives to help readers find their labors of love, inner activists, or how to make a home away from home. Enlightening exercises and workbook pages as well as a comprehensive list of publications, home exchange organizations, and websites are included to assist readers in making meaningful choices. For those who aren?t ready to throw in the towel, Too Young to Retire is the essential resource for discovering what comes next. more

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Posted: Oct-06-2008

What an Inspiration

This book covers all the important topics of positive aging and transformation: health, money, community, happiness and life purpose. It opens doors of possibility, and inspires you to step in. The Stones are living examples of what they write about. A lot of important information is conveyed...

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Posted: Jul-23-2006

A must read for those entering their 3rd age or their retirement zone

I found this book to be a concise, easy to read book about the joys and opportunities to be found in this stage of our life. Howard and Marika explore topics that a near and dear to us, that we must pay attention to if we wish to make this journey look like what we have always hoped for....

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Posted: Jun-14-2005

A Purpose-Filled Life

The book, Too Young to Retire, as well as the Stone's web site and book study groups, is their effort to teach people how to live a life filled with purpose, rather than the emptiness of so many retirees' lives.The book begins with an introduction to the Stones and how they arrived at the...

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Posted: Jan-30-2004

Save Your Money and Skip This One

Unless you are a far-left political idealist; "open-minded," as Mr. and Mrs. Stone say, their book offers little useful information for retirees.

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Posted: Sep-21-2003

Especially for anyone over the age of 62

Motivational speaker Howard Stone and yoga teacher Marika Stone team up in Too Young To Retire: An Off-The-Road Map To The Rest Of Your Life to present readers with a down-to-earth instructional guide which is drawn from the authors own lives as a couple, their research, and several assorted case...

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Posted: Jul-29-2003

Why Retire when you can Review?

"It is already clear the 21st Century will demand more of all of us, young or old. The gifts we are given ? longevity, better health, education and financial resources ? come with responsibility. After all, we have inherited and even helped create a world that needs our wisdom, experience, and...

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Posted: May-27-2003

An Enticing and Useful Guide For All Aging Baby Boomers!

For anyone interested in how the rapid changes in our society have affected traditional ideas about retirement, this book provides a wonderful resource that not only questions a variety of traditional notions regarding aging and retirement, but also provides a plethora of thought-provoking...

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Posted: May-14-2003

User friendly and packed full of practical offerings

This engaging and informative book offers "how to" action plans, complemented by a wide variety of references and resources. The personal stories let us peek inside, satisfying an innate curiosity and showing us how others deal with change at this stage of life. It's a fast and fun read, but a...

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Posted: Apr-28-2003

Inspirational and a Joy to Read

A must for people who are approaching (or who have already reached) the so-called retirement age. The book is chock full of thought-provoking advice and ideas. For example, Marika and Howard Stone suggest that the way to be energized and enjoy this new life's passage is through ". . . a...

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Posted: Apr-27-2003

Smart, fun, and packed with information

Too Young to Retire is a feast of fascinating information on how many choices we have as we look to reinvent ourselves during the last third of our lives. From websites to inspiring narratives from others' experiences, there is no end of ways to research new avenues of discovery. All of this is...

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