Purposeful Retirement

Hyrum W. Smith co-created the Franklin Planner, spent decades at FranklinCovey helping people align their daily choices with their deepest values, and here he applies that same framework to the retirement transition. The argument is that financial readiness alone leaves people stranded — you also need to know what you stand for, how to structure your days, how to protect your health, and how to maintain the social connections that work once provided. Practical tools including self-evaluation forms and daily routines make this more than motivational reading. The content is entirely clean, and Smith's LDS-rooted principles of stewardship and accountability translate naturally into broadly Christian language. The main limitation is audience: if you are not within a decade of retirement, this book is not written for you. Some tools also carry over from his earlier FranklinCovey work. For those it is written for, it is a warm and genuinely useful guide.