The Perfect Retirement

By Alan Roadburg

Book Overview

The Perfect Retirement provides truly unique insights, practical guidance, and strategies to ensure that your retirement will be worthwhile and enjoyable. It is based on our exclusive research among 2,400 retirees (your retirement mentors) who share their experiences, impressions and advice on retirement. It also includes our exclusive Life Goal Planning Workshop to ensure that satisfactions lost from work will be met in retirement. In addition, it provides the crucial link between Life Goal and financial planning, to truly personalize your financial plan, and much more. It is an easy-to-read and practical workbook that reflects the needs of today's retirees and elevates retirement lifestyle planning to a new standard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973002719
• ISBN13: 9780973002713
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: UTD Library Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Are you ready to retire?!

"If I Retire? Retirement Lifestyle Readiness" by Dr. Alan Roadburg is a practical and uplifting guide designed to help professionals navigate the emotional and psychological aspects of retirement, going far beyond financial planning. The exact title appears to be a variation or amalgamation of Roadburg’s well-known works—such as Re-tire, with a dash and Life After Medicine—the core content reflects his signature approach: a structured, workshop-style format that helps readers build a fulfilling post-career life. The book stands out for its step-by-step exercises and reflective tools that encourage readers to identify personal values, skills, and passions. It emphasizes replacing the intrinsic rewards of work—such as purpose, identity, and social connection—with meaningful new activities. Drawing from research with hundreds of retirees, particularly in high-commitment fields like medicine and dentistry, Roadburg offers tailored insights that resonate deeply with professionals facing this transition. Readers consistently praise the book for its accessible tone, humor, and emotional support, with many describing it as transformative. It reframes retirement not as an ending, but as a “dash”—a new phase of life to be actively designed. Ideal for anyone contemplating retirement, this guide is especially valuable for those seeking clarity on what to do next—not just how to afford it.

Found it!

As soon as I saw this book, I said to myself, "I found it!" I have been looking for a book to expand my retiremnt options and have found it in "Re-tire With A Dash""Re-tire With A Dash" is an easy read with exercises designed to help a person find and create new activities, based on skills, needs, and leisure habits. I have read it and am eagerly awaiting my retirement in a few short months.Tom HopkinsSacramento Ca

La, la, la, la ... Hey Jude by the Beatles

Upbeat and positive is the tone of the book and the feeling the reader walks away with after reading "Re-tire with a dash" by Dr. Alan Roadburg.In January of this year, I experienced a huge anxiety attack when I realized it was my last six months of teaching (after 31 years) and I would have to prepare a letter of resignation. A retired girlfriend (and former teacher), unable to console me, suggested this book.Thank goodness! I carried it around like a bible, as a suppport for whenever I felt the anxiety overtaking me. I would hang on to phrases that would turn the negative thinking into positive thoughts: I've earned this!... I'm lucky to be retiring now,I'm one of the "Luckies"!, etc.Dr. Roadburg's book, with its graphic syle and infusion of humour was easy to digest. I felt connected to the writer by his witty and memorable use of song titles (all my old favourites) to introduce each chapter. I am a habitual highlighter and appreciated the chapter summaries which vindicated my choice of select ideas and provide excellent points for quick review.I will be submitting that all important letter of resignation this week and at the same time, I will be slipping into my new set of tires, ready to face the challenges of the road ahead, with a smile on my face! La, la, la,...

Who Knows if he's Dashing, but Roadburg's Got The Secret

Some of my book club members are getting close to retirement so we took a tangent from our usual fiction when this book was recommended to us.Since everyone in the club is quite active, our main concern did not relate to financial advice, but rather what to do with ourselves when we retire (besides reading!). I have never before heard of a book on this subject providing an actual step-by-step process as this one did, and we actually had a great time going through the workshop together in Part 2. In fact, some of us are now considering retiring early since we have such clear plans. The book was easy to read, clever and intelligent. It provided a refreshing approach to a potentially traumatic situation. It actually changed the way we all viewed retirement, and the twenty club members would highly recommend this to anyone facing retirement.