Reviews
Here's what the Media and Readers are saying about Your Retirement Quest:
Media Reviews
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Reader Reviews
A company's most important asset is its people, in particular, those with the greatest experience. If these employees look to their futures with more certainty, they will be more focused and engaged in their current jobs and be able to transition more smoothly into the retirement they deserve. Your Retirement Quest is a pathway toward that more certain future, helping to both envision the future and then plan it.
Richard Antoine
Global Human Resources Officer, Retired, Procter & Gamble
This book demystifies the obstacles that stand in the way of a fulfilling retirement. Anyone interested in creating a long-lasting impact by giving back should read Your Retirement Quest.
Tom Bloch
Former CEO, H&R Block
Co-founder, University Academy, Kansas City public charter school
Author, Stand for the Best
In my business, we help people deal with disability and long term care needs. Your Retirement Quest helps people in another way. The book provides the knowledge and a practical approach to address the essential elements that can positively affect both their longevity and the quality of their lives.
Barbara Furey
Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Unum US
The emphasis by Lawrence and Spector on lifelong growth and connectedness is right on target. This is particularly true when we are in our 50s, 60s and beyond. The OLLI and other lifelong learning programs at many U.S. colleges focus on both stimulating the mind and expanding social opportunities. Your Retirement Quest combines hard facts and anecdotes to encourage readers to extend their lives by being fully alive.
Tom Noonan
Board Chair, Osher Lifelong Learning Institure, University of Cincinnati
CEO (retired), The Community Press, Inc.
This book provides timely guidance not only for those approaching retirement but anyone preparing to pursue a good life now. The authors strike an unusual Golden Mean: they help readers engage in deep self-reflection on the core questions of life and also provide the practical tools for fulfillment.
Laura Nash, PhD
Former Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
Co-author, Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life
My personal family experiences taught me I need to make every day count. My business experiences taught me that I need to keep learning and help others around me do the same. My retirement years have taught me that I have the opportunity to live my dreams and give back to others. I am excited about Your Retirement Quest, because it teaches what I have learned.
Greg Lawton
President and CEO (retired), JohnsonDiversey, Inc.
While in my business, financial security is a focus, it is good to see a practical approach to the other aspects of living a successful retirement. Your Retirement Quest puts financial security in its proper perspective, important, but not the key to happiness. I found the model Spector and Lawrence use to describe what it takes to live a fulfilling retirement very helpful; especially as I look forward to that phase of my life.
Jane Brauer, PhD
Senior Director of Research, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Securities
Our program, "Every Child Succeeds," is successful, in large part, because of the retirees who volunteer to give of their time, energy, and compassion to help our families. In Your Retirement Quest, Keith and Alan have created a powerful framework to think about a meaningful retirement and have correctly identified "giving back" as one of the important critical factors- our client families, our community, and our volunteers all benefit from "giving back."
Judith Van Ginkel, PhD
President, Every Child Succeeds
Author, Life Begins and Ends with Girlfriends
I have had the pleasure of serving as an advisor to retirees, with all levels of net worth, for over 25 years. Those who seem happiest and most fulfilled successfully budget both their money and their time. Lawrence and Spector accurately convey this truth in Your Retirement Quest - financial security is important, but it is only one of the many factors that influence retirement life. I recommend this book to anyone planning for retirement or looking for ways to enhance their current retirement lifestyle. As their chapter title says, "It's Not All about the Money."
Dan Kiley
President, Retirement Corporation of America
Founder, Retirement University
I have had the privilege of seeing firsthand what is important to successfully transition from a career to a healthy and fulfillinglife. There are many dimensions to doing this and Your Retirement Quest provides invaluable insights and a roadmap to guide us on this journey.
Doug Spitler
President and CEO, Episcopal Retirement Homes
Baby Boomers are retiring...and entering unfamiliar territory. Your Retirement Quest authors Alan Spector and Keith Lawrence provide insight worth its weight in gold. Discover what you need to know to truly experience the most rewarding years of your life...how passions perhaps long forgotten can be rediscovered...and how to achieve and maintain vibrant, good health. If you are near or in retirement, this book is a must read.
Vibrant Retirement Living (Blog post)
I write mostly about health and fitness after 50. I've touched on other subjects for mature adults, such as financial fitness, having meaningful interests, and even the importance of wills and trusts. Mainly, though, my focus has been on staying as strong and healthy as possible for as long as possible. Because nothing else matters very much if you lose your health.
So fitness is high priority. Yet there is, of course, more to life than just working out. The smartest people I know look at their entire lifestyle picture, not just selected parts of it. At midlife, people who don't think much about their retirement suddenly realize the day isn't all that far off. Depressing? For some, yes. And that is too bad. Because when you do finally retire, you really can, if you choose to, rediscover your passion in life. I found this to be true, personally, and wrote about it in Retirement Bliss.
Today, I want to recommend a book by an internet friend, Al Spector. Just out, his book, Your Retirement Quest provides a true blueprint for all the factors that go into making your retirement years the best time of life. Al is quite a guy. A retired senior himself, he has a passion for fitness and often writes about - and still plays - the wonderful game of baseball. In Your Retirement Quest he and co-author Keith Lawrence lay out successful retirement planning in a way that few others have. If you are nearing retirement, or are now living the retirement lifestyle, I hope you'll take a look. It really could amount to a big plus in your life.
Logan Franklin
Author, Living a Fitness Lifestyle and Gray Iron: A Fitness Guide for Senior Men and Women
www.Senior-Exercise-Central.com
If you desire a satisfying retirement, you need this book. The authors have provided a road map, with very practical advice, for a rewarding and productive time of retirement; but, like a long term corporate strategy, success requires advanced planning. Their insights are remarkably pertinent and prescient. They point out, for example, that in this stage of your life, you need to create the daily habits that build and sustain your energy level; critical to your well-being.
Dr. Alan Halpern
Orthopedic Surgeon
Author, Runner's World Knee Book
In Your Retirement Quest, Spector and Lawrence have given retirees and those approaching retirement practical tips, plans, and tools to "live life fully." Useful worksheets and self-reflection tools outline plans to maintain fitness, energy, and well-being. How to maintain, develop, and build a vibrant network of friends, family, and community, the hallmark of successful "connectedness," is also highlighted. A must read for anyone approaching this phase of life! I will highly recommend this book to all my coaching clients!
Cindy Charlton
Licensed Psychologist, Executive Coach, Communications Specialist
Alan Spector and Keith Lawrence fill a huge void for Baby Boomers. When I hosted a LifeScape seminar at our church, I saw firsthand that many people do very little retirement planning. LifeScape and Your Retirement Quest wisely detail the importance of thinking through your personal growth, values, connectedness, mission, passion, and serving others to prepare for the well-rounded and truly fulfilling retirement we all desire. I highly recommend the valuable principles and practical approach of Your Retirement Quest.
Jim Toy
Community Pastor, Vineyard Community Church, Cincinnati, Ohio