Here’s why we created The Anti-Retirement Plan

What is Anti-Retirement

When you retire, you’re offered a financial plan, the occasional cruise, and 10% off breakfast before 10:00am. Though well-intentioned, these things don’t do justice to the decades of wisdom, potential, and passion alive inside you.

Retirement is a time for purpose. Whether that’s finally writing the book you’ve talked about for 20 years. Selling your water colour paintings on Etsy. Or learning the drums at 67.

Anti-Retirement is many things. It’s a new way to think about retirement. It’s a movement, a community, that we’re building right here. It’s also a guided journal we created to help you decide what comes next.

What is The Anti-Retirement Plan

Put simply, it’s a guided journal designed to help you do what you love in retirement. It’s not a financial planner, there’s lots of resources and advisors out there that will help you with that. It’s a framework for planning your life in retirement so you can decide what comes next with confidence.

Inside you’ll find 50 transformational prompts that will help you reflect on your identity, career transition, relationships, needs, and purpose. Next, our 30 day-planner templates will help you put your reflections into practice.

Why does The Anti-Retirement Plan exist?

We launched our first guided journal, Bedside Business Plan, with Indigo close to four years ago, and at every book signing we hosted, someone asked us for a retirement planner. Not a finance book, a resource to help them plan for life after work.

We also realized that a great retirement gift didn’t exist. When our parents retired and we tried to find something meaningful to give them, but all we came across were gimmicky mugs and plaques. We created The Anti-Retirement Plan to be the resource our parents needed most when they retired, and the gift we wish we could have given them.

Who created it?

The Anti-Retirement Plan was created by us, Jana and Brad Boyko! We’re siblings and entrepreneurs on a mission to help people do what they love in retirement. I (Jana) spent over ten years as a career transition coach, and this journal holds every insight I gained from helping hundreds of people change their lives.

What resources do you offer for retirement?

Our guided journal is available online and in stores across North America. Here’s our full list of retail partners.

We send out regular emails with stories about people doing incredible things in their retirement years. You can join our email list here.

We’re also building our incredible community on Instagram and LinkedIn. We look forward to seeing you there!