What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition Planning a Prosperous, Healthy, and Happy Future

Today's economic realities have reset our expectations of what retirement is, yet there's still the promise for what it can be: a life stage filled with more freedom and potential than ever before. Given the new normal, how do you plan for a future filled with prosperity, health, and happiness? As a companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the world's best-selling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement offers both a holistic, big-picture look at these years as well as practical tools and exercises to help you build a life full of security, vitality, and community. This second edition contains updates throughout, including a section on Social Security, an in-depth exercise on values and how they inform your retirement map, and the one-of-a-kind resource for organizing the sea of information on finances and mental and physical health: the Retirement Well-Being Profile. More than a guide on where to live, how to stay active, or which investments to choose, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement helps you develop a detailed picture of your ideal retirement, so that-whether you're planning retirement or are there already-you can take a comprehensive approach to make the most of these vital years.

JOHN E. NELSON has been a consultant and speaker on retirement planning for 20 years. He is the creator of the “Retirement Well-Being Model,” used by government, nonprofit, and corporate employers for their retirement education programs. He is a certified retirement counselor and an accredited investment fiduciary.

RICHARD N. BOLLES is the author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, the bestselling job-hunting book in the world. He has been a leader in the career development field for more than 30 years.