Canadian Edition of The World's Best Retirement Book

I received this e-mail the other day:

From: Jerry M
To: vip-books
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 7:17 AM
Subject: How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

Hi there,

I was wondering if there are two versions of your retirement book - Canadian and American. I'd love to purchase a copy of the Canadian version (if there is one). If not, does VIP sell copies via email? None of the local bookstores seem to have a copy, and Amazon has a two week waiting period.

Thank you!

Jerry M.
Nova Scotia

This was my reply:

Hello Jerry:

Actually, there are a Canadian version and an American version of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. The two editions are the same except for the cover.

Unfortunately, retirees would have ten times the chance of finding a copy of the book in a Barnes and Noble store in the U.S. as they would in a Chapters store in Canada.

(This is typical of Canadians who won't support Canadians but will support Americans; I won't get into this, however.)

I sell copies of the book directly to people but I don't accept Visa. For example, just this last week the University of British Columbia Pension Fund ordered 25 copies of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free but they are paying me by cheque.

The problem with you sending me a cheque is that you will still have to wait about two weeks from the time you send the cheque to me, the time I receive it, and the time it takes for me to send you the book.

If you would like to do this, the price will be $20 plus GST plus about $3 for shipping for a total of $24.00. If you would like two copies, then send a total of $40.00.

Make the cheque out to "Ernie Zelinski" and send to:

Ernie Zelinski
P.O. Box 4072
Edmonton, AB
T6E 4S8

As an aside, here is the promo about the book that I send to companies:

Just a reminder that a happy retirement is dependent on a number of factors as detailed in my book How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free (Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor).

This book has already sold over 120,000 copies and has been published in 8 foreign languages since it was released.

Conduct a search for "retirement" or "retire" on www.Amazon.com and How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free appears in the number 1 position. Better still, search for "retirement book" in Google and the Amazon page for How to Retire Happy appears in the number 1 spot — out of over 29 million webpages!

What sets this retirement book apart from all the others is its holistic approach to the fears, hopes, and dreams that people have about retirement. This international bestseller goes way beyond the numbers that is often the main focus of retirement planning in most retirement books.

There are many ingredients of a happy retirement and several retirement planning tools that help retirees plan for their retirement in new and more meaningful ways. One of the most powerful tools is The Get-a-Life Tree that you won't find in any other retirement books.

I have attached the E-book (in PDF format) with over half of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free that is available as a free download on the Creative Free E-Books Webpage at the Real Success Resource Center.

I have also attached the PowerPoint Slide that indicates the benefits that your company can attain by giving away copies of The World's Best Retirement Book.

Please feel free to forward both the E-book and Slide to any of your colleagues, friends, and clients who may be interested in using this book as a gift for retiring employees or clients.

Many thanks and so long for now,

Ernie J. Zelinski

Best-Selling Author, Innovator, and Creativity Consultant
Author of the Bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
(Over 120,000 copies sold and published in 9 languages)
and the International Bestseller The Joy of Not Working
(Over 240,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages)






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Our retirement books are designed for corporations so that they can create GOODNESS, COOLNESS, and AWARENESS with clients and customers.

Even more important, our funky retirement books such as 365 Reasons Why You Will Love Retirement help retirees and the soon-to-be retired to earn their retirement karma points so that they retire happy.

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How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free on Quintessential Careers Book

I was delighted to find a review of my book How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free on Quintessential Careers Book Reviews

Here is part of the review:

This book [How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free] comprises so much more than financial planning. Many of the books and magazines that discuss retirement focus on building a nest egg, investing, and accumulating wealth.

I would not hesitate to share this book with friends, colleagues, or clients. Investigating the many options for retirement is even more important now than when the book was first written. With so many people having to change or rethink their retirement plans, this book is a breath of fresh air. At a time when people need inspiration and hope for their futures, learning How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free may be just what they need.

Although the ideas in the book are not new, the stories about how people are living them is unique and refreshing. They bring out the importance of living a full life now and not waiting until retirement.

Five things I re-learned from this book are:



1. Plant a Get-a-Life Tree. Among the lists, activities, stories, and ideas that Zelinski offers for brainstorming retirement options, he illustrates how to plant a Get-a-Life Tree. The tree is a form of mind map to help people think about retirement options.

2. Stay active before and after retirement. Ernie Zelinski emphasizes the importance of a healthy active lifestyle. Being active and healthy doesn't begin at retirement. The author tells us to find our interests and purpose long before we retire.

3. You don't have to be rich to enjoy retirement. In fact, Zelinski emphasizes the fact that having a nest egg doesn't guarantee a happy retirement. The book is rich with stories about the many ways people have found happiness in retirement.

4. Build healthy relationships before you retire. Having healthy relationships
outside of work before you retire will be the foundation for retirement bliss.

5. Retirement can be the best part of your life. Reading Zelinski's book was fun and inspiring. The author reminds us to focus on the things that are really important in life. Retirement, after all, is just the beginning.

A Book for Retirees

Above is the draft cover for the new edition of my book Real Success Without a Real Job which is now called Career Success Without a Real Job.

Here is a bit about the book:

Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations — by Ernie Zelinski

This revolutionary career book is for those millions of organizationally averse individuals who would like to break free of corporate life so that they have complete control over their lives. It will also benefit the millions of baby-boomer "retirees" who want to continue
working, but not in a traditional corporate setting. Positive, lively, and captivating, Career Success Without a Real Job is designed to help you live an extraordinary lifestyle that is the envy of the corporate world — there is no life like it!

Check out more about the book and me at:

Ernie Zelinski on Squidoo

Ernie Zelinski on LinkedIn

Leisure Quotes about The Joy of Not Working

Here is an e-mail that I recently received about The World's Second Best Retirement Book from someone in New Zealand:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave & Reena Tattersfield"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: The Joy Of Not Working


Ernie,

I wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how much I enjoyed reading The Joy of Not Working .

Your voice is a refreshing change from the 'work harder and buy more and more stuff' voice that seems to purvade western.society.

A simpler approach and enjoying life is far more attractive to me.

Cheers,

Dave

And here are three quotes about leisure that I used in my speech about The Joy of Not Working in Istanbul on November 26th.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
— Cicero (Roman Statesman 106-43 B.C.)

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
— Comte de Mirabeau (French Statesman 1749- 1791)

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain, the lazy one never.
— Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman 1706- 1790)

Baby Boomers Are Delaying Retirement Plans

The following news item explains the dramatic drop in sales ranking on Amazon.com of my book How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free along with other retirement books such as What Color Is Your Parachute for Retirement.

A new AARP survey confirms that a lot of older Americans have changed their retirement plans due to falling house prices and the stock market crash — they now have no intention to drop out of the workforce.

Apparently baby boomers are delaying retirement plans indefinitely. Indeed, a whopping 70 percent of workers plan to work during their retirement years.

Part-time retirement jobs are the top choice in the survey of 1,500 Americans ages 45 to 74 who are working or looking for work.

Common motives for post-retirement work are for interest or enjoyment (29 percent) or for needed income (22 percent). The percentage of respondents working for pleasure has decreased since the survey was last conduced in 2002, while the proportion working out of financial necessity has increased. Boomers planning to work primarily for enjoyment typically have post-graduate degrees and household incomes of at least $80,000 a year.

Instead of looking for jobs during retirement, smaller numbers of older workers plan to start their own business or work for themselves (11 percent).

Of course, as I have indicated in The World's Best Retirement Book when you retire isn't always completely in your control. A large number of workers retire because of layoffs, buyouts, health problems, or to care for relatives.

The Best Retirement Book on The Best Places to Retire

Beth Wateham, a Vice President at Simon and Schuster, just sent me a galley copy of Retirement Without Borders: How to Retire Abroad in Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, and Other Sunny Foreign Places (And the Secret to Making It Happen Without Stress) by Barry Golson. This book with the Scribner imprint is for those retirees who want to consider retiring abroad. The book will be released in December 2008.

Retirement Without Borders is the best book that I have read about the best places to retire abroad and I will be giving a testimonial for the back cover requested by Beth Wateham (she claims she is a big fan of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free on Amazon.com.

Here is the testimonial which will also appear on Amazon.com:

Retirement Without Borders

Do you have the urge to leave the American "rat race" behind - and live the retirement life that you have always dreamed about in another country? Then you definitely need Retirement Without Borders.

This book not only shows you the best places where to retire in the world, but also gives ten great reasons for retiring somewhere else and six main reasons why perhaps you should not even consider moving to another country in the first place. This is a highly inspirational and informative guide for retirees and soon-to-be retirees who are considering retiring abroad but have no place to begin.

Author Barry Golson along with Thia Golson and other expert expats help you consider the dream, explore the dream, show you the dream in several countries, and tell you honestly what the pitfalls are. There is much, much more. Anyone who has thought about living overseas should read this book. Retirement Without Borders is absolutely, positively the best book that I have read on why, where, and how to retire abroad.

- Ernie J. Zelinski
Author of the international best-seller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor

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