This book will give you tons of valuable information on how to retire no matter what your financial status is, and the inspiration to go ahead and do it. Whether you have plenty of money, or find yourself limited by money or health, this is the book to read if you want to learn how to create your perfect retirement life. It covers the 10 key areas of a joyful, bountiful and successful retirement life: Financial, Physical, Emotional, Mental, Spiritual, Social, Travel, Learning, Giving, and Happiness. These areas have been shown through extensive research to be the critical ones for people who want to make the "beyond work" years the very best of their entire lives. Dr. Essic has written Retire Cheap, Live Large based on the latest current research about aging and retirement, interviews with retired folks who are living their dreams, and her on personal retirement experiences. You will find up-to-date information on how to develop a good budget, and how to save money on almost everything you purchase, from groceries and goods to discounted or free travel, as well as ways to save on things like housing, utilities, medical bills and healthy exercise options. You will even get some interesting ideas on earning more money that you may choose to explore. Retirement is the beginning of a new chapter in your life. To be successful, most people have to figure out how to create a new identity as a "retired person." Often, folks find themselves at a loss to know how to develop a healthy plan for this new life, which includes not only how to arrange your spending to get the most out of the money you have available, but also how to develop a healthy nutrition and exercise plan that will help you live years longer at your peak, as well as exploring each of the other key areas and why you will want to do so. This book offers lots of ideas and options for how you can continue to develop and enhance your mental abilities, emotional, spiritual and social life for yourself, and exercises that will guide you step by step in the creation of your own personalized specific retirement plan, the basis of your awesome new life in retirement.