Why this book? Most books on Retirement are really about Financial Planning or Estate Planning. Not this book! This book is about creating a fulfilling life in retirement; it is a crossover book between self-help and retirement. Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life entices people to set out their hidden dreams, to reveal their lost hopes and to admit their secret desires, and then to plan a life to include them! This book encourages risk taking, honesty, and trusting yourself and others to make a fulfilling life in retirement. This book is aimed at those already retired, and it entices the Baby Boomers who are now retiring in ever increasing numbers. These Baby Boomers have had everything, done everything and will continue to be a driving force in their retirement. They also have a deep hunger to be fulfilled. Many of them have led fast, hectic, shallow lives and they have never explored their souls or their dreams. This book invites them to do both! Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life encompasses my own experience. I have retired twice AND I am having the time of my life doing the things I've always wanted to do - following my dreams! I know that retirement can be the most fulfilling time of life. My coaching clients have left their stereotypical thinking behind, thrown off their insecurities and fears to do great things! They have become computer literate, published authors, public speakers and lay preachers. Some have traveled to places they had always dreamed about, others have stepped into roles with family and friends in important new ways that have given them a sense of self-worth and deep feelings of fulfillment. Retirement is a time of living and doing exciting things; it is a time of loving and helping others, and it is about finding the 'real you' within and manifesting that in all its glory! For more information about the book please visit www.bmwalker.com TESTIMONIALS I love the way you lead the reader through the book with powerful questions and real-life examples. Rich Fettke, MCC, Past-President of the Professional and Personal Coaches Association and Author of Extreme Success. Barbara's book gave me an entirely new, exciting, positive perspective on retirement. That alone made it worth the investment of money and time. Irene Leonard, Professional Development Coach and Lawyer. Author of Creating the Practice You Want: A Law Practice Development Work-book. We do such a disservice in our culture to our retirees. They are a valuable resource to be cherished and appreciated. Barbara's book shows us all how important and possible it is to remain fully active and vibrant in our latter years. A must read for all, not just retirees. For with age comes great wisdom! Rick Tamlyn Co-active Coach, Trainer, Founder, It's All Made Up, Inc. The Internet resources are very helpful all listed close together. Great job and every wish for success! E.W. Truant, Published Poet. I think the concept is excellent; it is a very exciting project. L.R. Neaman, Entrepreneur. This book offers valuable information not only about 'how' but 'why' to create a fulfilling lifestyle in retirement. Talane Miedaner, Author of Coach Yourself To Success: 101 Tips from a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life. Retirement offers choice and challenges. You can travel, pursue a new career, write a book or do all three. You will discover how to create the (rest of your) life you want. Dan Poynter, The Self- Publishing Manual, http://ParaPub.com. Create Your Retirement is the perfect solution for people approaching retirement and wondering what they'll do next, and for those already retired and asking if this is all there is. Unlike other books on retiring that focus on financial planning, Barbara Walker has written a book for the 'new retirees,' the baby boomers still young at heart, who are seeking fulfillment, value and purpose in their retirement years. Barbara's practical exercises and enthusiastic style encourage readers to expand their traditional thinking about retirement to discover a new path, implement changes, and create a plan for the rest of their lives. C.J. Hayden, MCC, Author of Get Clients Now! To read a review of this book please visit: www.bookpleasures.com/reviewdetail.php?reviewID=68
Barbara M. Walker is a well-known educator in both the independent and the public school systems of British Columbia. Following the completion of a five-year term as Head of Crofton House School in Vancouver, The Fraser Institute presented Ms. Walker with the Outstanding Principal Award in the category of Academic Excellence. Prior to that, Ms. Walker was principal of David Thompson Secondary School in Vancouver from 1990 to 1995. She served as an elementary and secondary teacher, secondary administrator and district consultant for the Vancouver School Board, and taught for the Department of Defense in Lahr, Germany. Ms. Walker is also an Honorary Member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools. This honor is in recognition of her service as the Head of a CAIS school and for her contribution to the Association and to education in Canada. Ms. Walker's educational qualifications include two Master of Education degrees - one in Reading and the other in School Administration, and a Master of Business Administration in International Business Management. She holds a Bachelor of Education and is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto. She grew up in the Okanagan Valley and graduated from Vernon Senior High School. Currently Ms. Walker lives in Vancouver with her husband, Dr. John Secter. Her consulting firm is engaged in coaching and executive development. Ms. Walker is a certified Professional Co-Active Coach trained by the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California. She is a member of the ICF (International Coach Federation), the Vancouver Chapter of the ICF, and a member of Coachville. Barbara M. Walker can be reached at: Barbara M. Walker Inc. Executive Coaching Telephone: (604) 803-1337 / Fax: (604) 737-2193 Email: barbara@bmwalker.com