A FORTHCOMING BOOK BY ARTHUR SCHWARTZ
Retire From Work, Not From Life
Thirty practical ways to build a meaningful, connected, engaged life after a career - guided by the Five Ps™ Retirement Framework.
Currently in development. Publication details and availability will be announced.
THE RETIREMENT PLAN NOBODY GAVE YOU
Financially ready is not the same as life ready.
For decades, we are taught to prepare financially for retirement. Far less attention is given to the life that follows: identity, relationships, meaning, engagement, daily structure, and the question of what will make an ordinary Tuesday worth getting up for.
This book begins with a different question: Will you have enough life?
Purpose
What gives your life meaning now?
People
Who will share this chapter with you?
Passion
What still makes you feel alive?
Projects
What is ahead of you?
Pace
How do you want your days to feel?
THIRTY WAYS. REAL STORIES. PRACTICAL NEXT MOVES.
A book for designing the life beyond work.
Each chapter combines a memorable story, a clear Five Ps™ lesson, Arthur's perspective, questions for reflection, and a practical Your Next Move.
See retirement differently
Move beyond the finish-line idea of retirement and think intentionally about the life you are building.
Learn from real people
Discover what well-known and previously unknown people learned through reinvention, struggle, contribution, and growth.
Turn insight into action
Use thirty approachable Ways to strengthen purpose, relationships, passions, projects, and the pace of everyday life.
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
Not just for people who have already retired.
- Professionals beginning to imagine life after a career
- People who are financially prepared but emotionally uncertain
- Recently retired people asking, "What now?"
- Couples discovering that retirement is a shared and individual transition
- Anyone who wants the next chapter to hold meaning, connection, and momentum
Retirement is not primarily vacations and bucket lists. It is Tuesdays. A fulfilling retirement is built from ordinary days that reflect who you are becoming.
A central idea from Retire From Work, Not From Life
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Arthur Schwartz
Arthur helps successful professionals and couples navigate the transition from a career-centered life into a meaningful next chapter. He brings more than forty years of experience working with executives and professionals, including decades as an executive coach.
His Five Ps™ Retirement Framework focuses on the dimensions of retirement that financial plans cannot answer: purpose, people, passion, projects, and pace.
THE VOICES INSIDE THE BOOK
People you know - and people you will be glad to meet.
The book's two-pronged interview approach pairs recognizable public figures with inspiring people whose names may be unfamiliar. What connects them is not fame. It is a useful, honest story about building a life after work.
BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION
Your experience may help shape this book.
Arthur is currently interviewing people whose retirement and later-life transitions can offer readers hope, perspective, and a practical way forward. You do not need to be famous. You need an honest story with something worth passing on.
Submitting a story does not guarantee an interview or publication.