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Books for the Journey
Each month of Quitired includes one featured book selected to deepen the theme without turning the month into a book report.
Explore the Reading ListQUITIRED RESOURCES
Ideas and tools for building retirement intentionally.
You do not need a hundred resources. You need the right one for where you are right now.
This page brings together the books, guided Companions, free tools, and Quitired programs that support the journey from working life into a retirement that feels like your own.
START WHERE YOU ARE
Four ways to explore.
Choose the resource that matches what you need now. You can always come back for the rest.
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Quitired Companions
Guided monthly tools that combine reflection, practical frameworks, real-life experiments, and concrete decisions.
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Free Resources
Begin with the Retirement Reset and use additional free Quitired tools as they are added over time.
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Before You Retire
Still working? The six-step Before You Retire program helps you think about the life transition before your final day at work.
Explore Before You RetireTHE QUITIRED READING LIST
One book for each part of the journey.
These are not required reading. They are simply books that add another perspective to each monthly theme.
MONTH 1 · DECOMPRESSION
The Art of Stillness
Visit Month 1MONTH 2 · RECOVERY FROM BUSY
Four Thousand Weeks
Visit Month 2MONTH 3 · HEALTH & ENERGY
Built to Move
Visit Month 3MONTH 4 · REWIRED
From Strength to Strength
Visit Month 4MONTH 5 · PURPOSE
Designing Your Life
Visit Month 5MONTH 6 · RELATIONSHIPS
The Gifts of Imperfection
Visit Month 6MONTH 7 · FUN
Joyful
Visit Month 7MONTH 8 · CURIOSITY
The Art of Possibility
Visit Month 8MONTH 9 · CONTRIBUTION
The Power of Moments
Visit Month 9MONTH 10 · ADVENTURE
The Comfort Crisis
Visit Month 10MONTH 11 · IMPACT
The Good Ancestor
Visit Month 11MONTH 12 · THE ENCORE
Bring the year together.
Month 12 is about looking back at what the year taught you and deciding what deserves to continue.
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The Quitired Companions
Reading can give you an idea. The Companion helps you decide what that idea means in your own life.
Each monthly Companion includes reflection, practical frameworks, experiments, and concrete decisions designed to help you work through that month's theme rather than simply think about it.
Explore the Companion SeriesAVAILABLE TWO WAYS
Individual Companion
$8 each
Full-Year Companion Series
$72
Start with Month 1 whenever you are ready and move through the journey in order, at your own pace.
FREE FROM QUITIRED
A place to begin.
You do not have to purchase anything to start thinking more intentionally about retirement.
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Retirement Reset
A guided reflection designed to help you step out of work mode, look at where you are now, and begin asking what you want this next part of your life to become.
Get the Retirement ResetSTILL WORKING?
Start before your last day.
The transition to retirement begins before you hand in your badge, close the laptop, or attend the farewell party. The six-step Before You Retire program helps you think about identity, ordinary days, relationships, structure, and the life you are preparing to enter.
Explore Before You RetireSTART WHERE YOU ARE
You do not need every resource.
Choose the one that helps with where you are right now.
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