The Countdown to 60

The years from 55 to 60 are one of the most powerful planning windows of your life. You still have earning power. You still have time for good choices to compound. And you have decades of experience to guide you. Used well, these five years can shape the next thirty.

The Countdown to 60 is a clear, practical guide to using that window well, wherever in the world you live.

Inside, you will discover how to:

• Take an honest look at your money, health, work, relationships and purpose
• Picture the life you actually want at 62, and plan backwards from it
• Make your peak earning years count, and stop lifestyle creep from eating your future
• Clear debt before 60 and decide what to do about your mortgage
• Work out your number: roughly how much you will need for the decades ahead
• Find every pension you have and make the timing decisions that can't be undone
• Protect your savings from scams, poor decisions and gaps in your paperwork
• Take a healthier body and a sharper mind into your sixties
• Choose whether to stay, shift or step back from work, and stay relevant in a changing world
• Test a business or new career safely while you still have a regular income
• Find purpose beyond your job title
• Have the important conversations with your partner, your children and your ageing parents
• Build friendships that don't depend on work
• Decide where you will live for the next thirty years
• Finally act on the things you have postponed for too long

The book ends with a year-by-year countdown plan from 55 to 60 and ready-to-use checklists for money, health, work, purpose, people and place.

Written in plain language for a global audience, this book doesn't tie you to one country's rules. It gives you the questions to ask, the decisions to make and the order in which to make them.

Whether you are 52 or 59, financially comfortable or quietly worried, single or married, an employee or a business owner, this book will help you arrive at 60 ready, with a plan for the next thirty years.

The countdown has already begun. Start making it count today.