Ernie Zelinski

Ernie Zelinski is the

Top 10 Reasons to Buy The Joy of Not Working

1. You are more independent and more creative than most people.

2. You were born a lover of life and not a workaholic.

3. You don't want the cheese; you just want to get out of the trap.

4. You like books that are reader friendly with lots of cartoons, quotations, and exercises.

5. You like books that make you smile and challenge traditional ways of living and thinking.

6. You agree with the words of Bertrand Russell: "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the best product of civilization."

7. You are receptive to the concept that we can achieve more if we relax, enjoy life more, forget about what the majority in society thinks is important, and focus on the things that really matter.

8. Your parents and co-workers will not approve of your adopting this book as your lifestyle Bible.

9. You know a good deal when you see one - if a book has been published in 17 languages in 21 different countries and has sold over 225,000 copies, it must have great value.

10. You know something important that the hard workers of this world don't know: the secret to a happy and fulfilling life is to work smart and not hard.

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From the National Post

Top 10 Reasons to Buy and Read How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

1. You are ready to claim your freedom from corporate life.

2. You want to follow your retirement dreams instead of someone else's.

3. As a spiritually and highly evolved human being you know that how to enjoy life to its fullest is much more important for creating an active, satisfying, and happy retirement than how much money you have saved.

4. Many retirement columnists and retirement seminar presenters have ranted and raved about this book. For instance, retirement columnist Nancy Paradis of the St. Petersburg Times in Florida advises, "Get this book if you look forward to a retirement with 'zing.' "

5. With it's great title and the inspirational subtile, this book makes the perfect gift for the soon-to-be retired friend or for the person retiring at the office.

6. You agree that "Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end."

7. You have put money in proper perspective so that you don't need a million dollars to retire.

8. You want to generate great purpose in your entire retirement life with meaningful, creative pursuits.

9. You like finding extremely useful information about retirement such as The Get-a-Life Tree that you won't find in any other book, but which is acclaimed by people who have read How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free.

10. Above all, you want to make your retirement years the best years of your life.

"Get this book if you look forward to a retirement with 'zing.' "
-Nancy Paradis, St. Petersburg Times

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free on Amazon.com

Here's a book you can fall in love with just by reading the table of contents. It's entitled 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie
Zelinski.

The table of contents listing those 101 things, plus a bonus of five more, is masterful, but so is each of the chapters expanding on each table of contents entry. If you are like most of us and have forgotten these lessons, I suspect you'll remember them after reading the book.

I flipped over the book because each lesson struck me as important and because reading the explanatory chapter convinced me in a persuasive and entertaining way that the lesson was important.

So first take a sample from the table of contents:

• One true friend is worth more than 10,000 superficial ones.
• Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.
• The surest way to failure is trying to please everyone.
• Your past is always going to be the way it was – so stop trying to change it.
• A walk or run in nature is the best medicine for many of your ailments.
• The shortcut to being truly fit and trim is long-term rigorous action.
• Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.
• If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.
• No matter how successful you become, the size of your funeral will still depend on the weather.
• Be happy while you are alive because you are a long time dead.

I don't know about you, but I think those lessons of life are not only central to a good life but are also well stated. This Zelinski guy knows how to write prose that has the potential to become those old proverbs everyone repeats.

- From a Review by Herb Denenberg in the Philadelphia Bulletin

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An Unsolicited Testimonial for The World's Best Retirement Book from The Life Planning Network

A truly upbeat read! The author, who semi-retired at age 30 and in debt, claims you are never too young to retire. He paints a picture that is so appealing you will wish you had retired years ago. He hits topics such as lifelong learning, relocation, the importance of friendships, and creative travel options. His seven-page list of "activities for your get-a-life tree" will help you start and keep you active for a very long time.
- Life Planning Network


From the National Post

"To be sure, retirement books are a glutted field, but most focus on money and financial planning. They view the finish line as the last day of employment. That's where
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free begins."
- Jonathan Chevreau, Retirement Columnist, National Post





From the Association of Retirement Planners

"How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free is optimistic, practical,
humorous, and provocative AND comprehensively addresses the
many issues impacting individuals as they think about their retirement."
- Nancy Conroy, Association of Retirement Planners


From Life Unfolds, Houston, Texas

"Ernie has done it again. Easy to read, well laid out. Emphasis on simple living, and preparing for retirement long before you retire."
- Mary Anne Fields, Life Coach and Trainer of Life Unfolds, Houston, Texas


From The Strebel Planning Group, New York

"With a focus on the non-financial aspects of
retirement, How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free explores the myriad choices and decisions we're all confronted with in living out our lives. Such as, pondering the pros and cons of remaining at your present job; changing jobs or changing careers; taking an early retirement; delaying retirement; never retiring; or semi-retiring. Clearly, from Mr. Zelinski's point of view, staying in a less than satisfying job for the sake of some distant future payoff is enormously risky to the health and well being of your life. A mistake like that cannot be fixed since you cannot go back in time to change your decisions."
- The Strebel Planning Group, New York

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free on Amazon.com

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