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Congratulations on your retirement. What type of retirement did you select? Retirement with no work? Phased-in retirement with phased-out work? Retirement with part-time work? Or did you select no retirement with continued work? Regardless of which type of retirement you selected, it is the right retirement for you. You are now entering a new phase in your life journey that will last 20 years on average. In many instances it will last a lot longer with many of you living a retirement that equals, or even exceeds, that of your work life. Regardless of the type of retirement you have chosen or how long it lasts, it will be more rewarding if you take charge and create short- and long-term retirement goals as a guide for your daily life. The time will fly by just like it did when you were working. In order to help you with the next phase of your life journey, Create Your Own Rewarding Retirement has been designed as a companion text to Discover the Right Retirement for You in which you discovered the type of retirement that was best for you. This book goes beyond that to help you create and complete your goals after you retire. The reader has several choices as to how to use this book. You can use it as a workbook by completing all of the chapter worksheets and creating your retirement goals; or you can use it as a history book to chronical your journey as you create and complete each goal; or you can use it as a storybook about the retirement expectations and experiences of people just like you. Each of choices will be of value to you. Ideally this book is intended to be used in all three ways and it is recommended that you do so to achieve the maximum value from it. Remember that you, and you alone, have the ability to make an ordinary retirement into an extraordinary one.