This guidebook is designed to help you approach your well-deserved retirement with composure and joy, and to focus on the positive aspects of the new phase of your life. Make sure that retirement does not become a standstill. This handbook reveals how to do that, and how to get moving constructively. So "How to rock your retirement" answers all the important questions about entering retirement age and helps you lead a fulfilled and happy life as a retiree. Typical problems and fears such as "purpose in life," "too little money," "loneliness," "health," "self-motivation," and "living in old age" are discussed, and simple, workable solutions are presented.

This book is intended to encourage you to take new paths and to see retirement as an opportunity for your personal development.

In the first part of the book, you will learn how to organize your everyday life in the best possible way and how to compensate for the lack of professional contacts. You will receive valuable tips on what you can do with all your free time and how it is possible to live an enjoyable and satisfied life even with a "small pension". You will also get tips on how to generate new income or minimize expenses. The theoretical part also contains suggestions and ideas for possible housing and living models for seniors, right through to information on how you can spend your twilight years in the sunny south.

The second part presents 67 active and inspiring ways to fill your daily life with meaningful, relaxing and exciting, fun, creative, healthy, delicious and helpful activities that bring fulfillment to you and others.

Some highlights from the practical section of the guide:

• Keep a happiness journal.
• Downsizing and minimalism.
• Buying something at an auction
• Travel by motor home
• Hiking a pilgrimage trail
• Emigrate
• Realize your own micro-adventures
• Visit the places of your childhood
• Explore repair cafes and thrift stores
• Take a guided tour of the sewers
• Finally achieve the figure you want - If not now, when?
• Create a raised bed
• Lease an allotment garden
• Grow edible mushrooms
• Take a cooking class
• Write your memoir
• Learn a new language
• Build an insect hotel
• Make a pond
• Swim in a river
• Watch birds
• Learn to play a musical instrument
• Mark hiking trails
• Invent a new game to play
• Spend the night in the forest
• Fly with a glider
• Guerrilla gardening
• Learn to trade
• Tell your grandchildren your secrets
• Invite the neighbors to a garden party
• Become a reader

It's never too late to try something new, and the onset of retirement is one of the best and perhaps last opportunities to actually follow through on good life resolutions. To make this easier, all you need is a sense of humor, a little patience, and a modicum of age wisdom.

This book will be a valuable help for you and is also a suitable and helpful gift idea for all work colleagues, friends and relatives who would like to assist the newly retired person with good advice.