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The life after work journey is one of life's biggest transitions

Too often, it unfolds without a roadmap.

Shaping Life-After-Work for your reality, your say, your priorities,
within the Interconnected Life Domains and changing life stages so you can manage your life after work your way.

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On Retirement
& Other Second Beginnings

A practical guide to making better decisions about retirement, life transitions and what comes next. Most retirement preparation focuses on money. This book brings the rest of life into view, including purpose, relationships, health, identity, time, home and the ordinary decisions that shape life beyond work.

Foreword by Rob Rusconi

Featuring a foreword by Rob Rusconi, author of "Whose Money Is It Anyway?", this book has earned the endorsement of an authorative voice in the retirement world, both in South Africa and internationally.

What you can gain

  • Understand how your life is changing and what this means for you.
  • Clarify what you want to keep, change or explore.
  • See how one decision may affect several areas of life.
  • Identify assumptions, missing information and questions that need reliable answers.
  • Prepare important conversations and decisions.
  • Choose a realistic next step and a point for reviewing it.
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about the Author

johan Hartzenberg

Johan Hartzenberg is the founder of BetterLived and author of On Retirement and Other Second Beginnings. His work across employee benefits, retirement, social security and human resources informs a practical approach to the decisions people face beyond work. His focus is helping people understand their circumstances, ask better questions and make choices that fit their priorities and stage of life.

You do not need to solve every part of the future at once. Begin with one question, one useful resource or one conversation that helps you see the next step more clearly.


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about the Author

johan Hartzenberg

Johan Hartzenberg is the founder of BetterLived and author of On Retirement and Other Second Beginnings. His work across employee benefits, retirement, social security and human resources informs a practical approach to the decisions people face beyond work. His focus is helping people understand their circumstances, ask better questions and make choices that fit their priorities and stage of life.

You do not need to solve every part of the future at once. Begin with one question, one useful resource or one conversation that helps you see the next step more clearly.


Buy the E-Book →
Buy the Printed Book →
Take the Quiz: Are You Ready for Life After Work?→
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Why This Book Exists

Retirement Changes More than the Working Day
Retirement can change routines, roles, relationships, health choices, where and how people live, and the way time is used.

Similar questions arise during career change, caregiving, bereavement, relocation, illness, reinvention and other major transitions. The book helps readers bring these connected parts of life into view, decide what matters now and identify a next useful step.

Who This Book is for

  • People preparing for retirement.
  • People already living in retirement.
  • People facing another major life transition.
  • Spouses and partners adjusting to life with a retiree.
  • Adult children supporting, or sharing decisions with, a retired or ageing parent.
  • Family members whose routines, relationships or responsibilities are changing because someone close to them has retired..
  • People preparing for retirement.

What makes this book different


A Whole Life
Perspective
Financial preparation matters, and it sits alongside health, relationships, purpose, identity, home, learning, contribution and daily life.
Practical Tools for Real decisions
The book offers questions, frameworks and exercises that readers can apply to their own circumstances.

Better questions,
better decisions
Readers are helped to understand their situation, test assumptions, compare realistic options and make choices that fit what matters to them.

relevant Beyond
Retirement
The ideas can also support people facing career changes, caregiving, health challenges, relocation, loss, reinvention and new opportunities.

Built
for Action
The book helps readers move from reflection to a practical, reviewable next step.