What's Your Encore?

Not your typical book about retirement. Most ask if you have enough money to retire. What’s Your Encore? asks, and guides you to find the answer to the question, “What will you do with your time after you retire?” What will you do all day? Where will you find your new social connections? Where will you find purpose and fulfillment? By the end of the book, you will have a plan including the first steps to take in order to achieve the retirement lifestyle of your dreams.

Planning to retire soon? Already retired? Wondering what to do next? Former CEO, and now one of the premier non-financial retirement coaches in the country, Larry Jacobson shares how to overcome the hurdles to a purposeful and fulfilling retirement. The exercises in the included Action Guide will solidify your plan.

Turn your dreams into reality. After years of hard work, you probably feel entitled to a satisfying retirement. But where do you start? What does your post-career life look like for you? Rather than trial and error, receive expert advice from retirement coach Larry Jacobson in What’s Your Encore? Full of wisdom based on experience, this golden years guidebook shows you how to find your new identity in a post-career world. You can start making the most out of your retirement without wasting time or energy in the wrong direction.

Build the retirement you desire and deserve. Instead of wandering aimlessly, unsure of what to do with your time, Jacobson’s effective and easy-to-follow tips and lessons take you on a journey of self-discovery to find your purpose and fulfillment in retirement. What’s Your Encore? is a retirement book full of professional experience, research, and real results that will improve the quality of your retirement years. Featuring practical answers and inspiring examples to take inspiration from, you’ll soon be enjoying the retired life of your dreams.

What’s Your Encore? is not a financial planner. It helps you answer all the other questions you have about retirement. You’ll find practical strategies such as:

Understanding the importance of taking risks and how to analyze them
Ways to manage your fears about your decisions and choices
Discovering and pursuing your true passions and new identity
Finding and implementing the elements of a balanced lifestyle
How to turn dreams into goals, and goals into reality
How to find and keep a positive perspective
What do the happiest retirees do with their time?

If you liked the books Outlive, Retirement Planning Guidebook, The Boy Behind the Gate, or What Color is Your Parachute?, then you’ll love What’s Your Encore?

With a forward by Congressman Eric Swalwell, and endorsements by Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy, and Robert Laura, president of the Retirement Coaches Association, praise for Jacobson’s writing reads like the Who’s Who in the field of non-financial retirement planning. Larry Jacobson is truly a thought leader in the field. Based on his successful online video course, Sail Into Retirement, Larry now brings his coaching to everyone with this book.

Author Biography

“Retirement is not the end, but rather the opportunity for a newbeginning,” says Larry Jacobson, a leading authority on non-fiscalretirement lifestyle planning. Jacobson’s successful experience of makingthe shift from his own business career, retiring from the corporate world, and achieving his personal dreams is his proven model for coaching.His experience has attracted clients from all walks of life, includingentrepreneurs, CEOs, doctors, attorneys, teachers, and public figures.Jacobson believes everybody has an Encore in them after they retirefrom their career. “You get a do-over, how cool is that?” asks Larry. Hecoaches clients to discover their passions, and then helps them combinetheir passion, knowledge, and experience to build a plan of action for aretirement of fulfillment and purpose. “And don’t forget about fun,” headds.Jacobson is also known for his leadership and entrepreneurshipcoaching and is a certified World Class Speaking Coach.Successfully transitioning from CEO to sailor, Jacobson achieved hislifelong dream of sailing around the world. After that accomplishment, he went on to become an award-winning author and TEDx motivationalspeaker. Now, Buoy Coaching & Training focuses on helping clientsredefine retirement. The groundbreaking Sail Into Retirement™ programhas quickly achieved notoriety in the field. Now that same information isavailable to everyone in this book.Larry was recently awarded the coveted Retirement Catalyst Award bythe Retirement Coaches Association, “for opening new doors, creatingnew boundaries, influencing others, and being a major contributor to thefield of Retirement Lifestyle Coaching.“A California native, circumnavigator, and adventurer, Jacobson hasover fifty thousand blue water miles under his keel. Larry lives inthe San Francisco Bay Area and welcomes new friends and inquiries: larryjacobson.com/contact