Something to Live For - Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life

Zusatztext “Encouraging evidence of something I’ve seen time and again: the life-giving impact of using one's gifts and passions to serve a cause or mission that really matters. Lives get transformed! starting with one's own.” —Jonathan T. M. Reckford! CEO! Habitat for Humanity International “If you want to be inspired! just read this book full of personal! practical! and surprising stories about what matters! what works—and what's next.” —Walter F. Mondale! former Vice President! Senator and Ambassador “I cannot think of a more important subject! or a more important book! than this one. In a world where so many feel set adrift on choppy seas! we need Something to Live For more than ever.” —Richard Bolles! author of What Color Is Your Parachute? “Until now! we've lacked authoritative maps for the second half of life. This book provides such a map! and it's a wonderful guide for everyone to read.” —Harry R. Moody! Director of Academic Affairs! AARP Informationen zum Autor Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro Klappentext The second half of life is a journey into unknown territory-a safari like the one that inspired this deeply renewing and inspiring book. Drawing upon ancient wisdom and modern research for guidance! Richard Leider and David Shapiro invite you on a journey back to the primordial rhythms-back to a time and place where we are better able to clarify for ourselves what really matters in our lives. They share stories from their own lives and of others facing midlife and beyond! stories that exemplify the qualities of authenticity and wholeheartedness that are the essential components of vital aging. And they offer up positive practices that can help us save and savor the world: live an authentic life of purpose and meaning while balancing our lives with vitality and joy hunting the invisible game Who Do I Want to Be Now that I’m Grown Up? How are we to see life? Is it an existence of meaningless movement from one moment to the next? Or is there a larger purpose in life, something to live for? When we’re young, we think that when we’re all grown up, we’ll have all the answers. We’ll know what we want to do, how we want to do it, and with whom we want to do it. But when we’re older, we realize it doesn’t work that way. The questions don’t go away, and the answers don’t magically appear. Just because we’re grown up doesn’t mean we’re finished growing. Throughout our lives, we continue to ask these eternal questions: “Why am I here?” “What is my purpose?” “What am I living for?” And while we make these inquiries on and off from cradle to grave, they somehow become more pressing, more urgent, and certainly more poignant in the second half of our lives. In the first half of life, the questions are framed by basic economic realities. Eventually, though, we reach a point—usually around midlife—where the answers are no longer obvious. Somewhat freed from the practical (although usually not the emotional) responsibilities of providing for our basic needs, we find ourselves having to come up with our own answers. 12 We reach a point in our lives when we might phrase the question like this: Who do I want to be now that I’m grown up? Consequently, we struggle, living in the gap between who we are and what we do. Some of us experience daily life as energy-draining and spirit-crushing. Some remain in service to the story of the first half of our lives, when our souls have already moved on to the story of the second half. And so, the hunger for answers to the “Who do I want to be?” question grows stronger. But where do the answers come from? Modern media being what it is, especially in light of the mass of Baby Boomers entering this second half of life, potential responses abound. Advice about life is now so cheap...

Product details

• Authors: Richard Leider, Richard J Leider, Richard J. Leider, David Shapiro, David A. Shapiro
• Publisher: Berrett Koehler Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.07.2008
• EAN: 9781576754566
• ISBN: 978-1-57675-456-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Series: BK Life
• Subject: Guides > Health