A Life-Changing, Retirement Masterpiece That Deserves a Place on Everyone’s Bookshelf.
Tom Marks, multiple times bestselling author, Literary Titan, winner of the best Non-Fiction book award, and America’s leading voice on retirement happiness, and Ron Draper, credit union CEO with more than 40 years in the industry, have collaborated on a book that is now America’s bestselling book on aging, self-help, mental health, and philosophy. If you’re approaching retirement, know someone who is, or if you are currently retired but looking for more happiness in your life, this book is an essential must-read for you, your friends, and members of your family.
“A TRIUMPH OF WISDOM"
“AN EXTRAORDINARY MANIFESTO”
“AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR CREDIT UNIONS”
“HEARTWARMING”
“AN INSTANT CLASSIC"
"ELEGANT AND SCHOLARLY"
"BOLD, WITTY, FUNNY"
“WARMTH, WIT, AND WISDOM FROM AUTHORS WHO ARE LOVED AND ADMIRED”
Fancy That! 15 Chapters That Will Capture Your Fancy.
Chapters
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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due:
A Deeply Rooted History of Credit Unions Caring About Seniors and Retirees -
Credit Unions And Retirees:
The Most Perfect Union of Happiness -
A Solid Financial Plan Is Only The Beginning Of A Solid Life Of Retirement Happiness
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Manage Your Expectations Before They Manage You
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Make Your Life Easier By Taking It Easy On The List-Making
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How Being Grateful Can Lead To A Great Retirement (And Kindness Helps, Too)
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Rethink A Life Of Possessions And Don't Let Them Possess You
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Resist The Temptation To Jump On The Hamster Wheel
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Choose Your Path Of Happiness, Not The Path To Happiness
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Mistakes Will Happen, But In Retirement, You Get Do-Overs!
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Learn How To Practice Self-Empathy, And Retirement Happiness Will Follow
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Use The Creative Arts To Exercise Your Mind
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In The Center Of It Is All You:
How Individualism Is Critical to Retirement Happiness -
Like The “Dem Bones” Song Goes, Just About Everything In Our Pursuit Of Retirement Happiness Is Connected
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Interviews And Insights From Other Retirement Experts
AUTHORS
Tom Marks is a multiple times bestselling and award winning author who is considered to be the leading voice in America on the subject of retirement happiness. His first book, The Second Best Business Book Ever Written: The Pursuit of Thought Leadership in Sales, Marketing, and Life was published by Inc Magazine for its 25 million readers. The book became the bestselling new business book of 2024. His next book, Coming of Age in Retirement: An Advertising Executive’s Story of Enlightenment and Revelation was the bestselling retirement book in America and also became a bestseller in aging, mental health, and memoirs. Tom also spent many years of the professional speaking circuit discussing thought leadership, the Greek scholars, and the disciplines of market leadership.
Tom has been awarded the Gold Medal for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by the Nonfiction Writers Association, he was won three different International Impact Book Awards, has been honored as a Literary Titan, has been awarded a POTY, a Readers Views Award, and two American Book Fest Gold Medals. He has also won more than 65 American Advertising Awards for his copywriting over his nearly five-decade-long career in marketing and advertising.
Tom has spent more than 20 years working in the credit union industry, servicing clients including CUNA Mutual Group, TruStage, and a dozen credit unions throughout the Midwest. He has also appeared as an expert guest on well over 60 retirement and business podcasts reaching 90 different countries, and is sought after as a keynote speaker and content contributor to the largest retirement magazine and journals in the US.
Ron Draper is the long time CEO of Somerville Municipal Federal Credit Union and has played key roles and been critically influential in the credit union movement for over four decades. In addition to his extensive credit union work history — from the ground up including an 18-year stint as a Chairman and Director of the Central Credit Union Fund, the nation’s very first corporate credit union (a credit union for credit unions) created by the Massachusetts legislature in 1932, and first led by credit union legend, Edward Filene, and 12-years as Chairman and Director of the first credit union league formed in the US, the Credit Union League of Massachusetts (now known as the Cooperative Credit Union Association), Ron has also turned-around less performing credit unions and has developed innovative products and services for credit unions of all sizes.
Ron is a graduate of Boston College with a degree in business administration-marketing. He received his master’s in business administration (MBA) from Southern New Hampshire University and his Juris Doctor degree from Massachusetts School of Law. In addition, Ron is a licensed attorney and certified court mediator, real estate broker, and auctioneer practitioner.
After more than forty years as part of the credit union industry, from serving as an entry-level project manager and loan officer in 1982 at Raytheon Employees Credit Union, to senior executive positions at larger credit unions, Ron is now pondering his own forthcoming retirement. But not before resuming his interests in writing, drawing, the creative arts, and stand-up comedy.
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