Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life [Paperback]

Frederic M. Hudson (Author), Pamela D. McLean (Author), Hudson M. Frederic (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2000 | ISBN-10: 1884433847 | ISBN-13: 978-1884433849 | Edition: Revised 2000

A LifeLaunch is the beginning if a new chapter of your life. Each LifeLaunch requires a fresh new vision, new plans, and inner courage as you shift gears from yesterday's commitments to tomorrows possibilities. Each LifeLaunch is a graduation from one era of your life into the next. Society used to tailor our LifeLaunches for us, and guide us down established paths of adult life. No more. Today you must design your own path, and take charge of all your LifeLaunches no matter what your age or situation.

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...learn here how to take charge of your life. -- Robert Tucker, Author of Managing the Future: Essential Survival Tools for Business in Today's Market

...provides the tools for productivity approaching change during our adult years with confidence, vigor and excitement. -- Stephen R. Covey, Author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and founder and Chairman of the Covey Leadership Center

Cutting edge stuffsimple and directsure to work. Follow the maps and you'll get the future deserve. -- Beverly Kaye, Ph.D. Career Authority and author of Up is Not the Only Way

About the Author

Frederic Hudson, Ph.D., President of the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and founding President of the Fielding Institute-a widely acclaimed graduate school for adult learners, has teamed up with Pamela McLean, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, to write this definitive book on adult life designs in our turbulent world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Hudson Pr; Revised 2000 edition (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884433847
• ISBN-13: 978-1884433849
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

FREDERIC M. HUDSON, Ph.D., is the president of the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara and founder and former president of the Fielding Institute. He has consulted and coached professionals in a wide variety of businesses, universities, and not-for-profit organizations including 3M, Apple, Boeing, Dupont, General Electric, Hallmark, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lockheed, Motorola, Pepsi Cola, Sun Microsystems, Stanford University, and AARP. He is the author of numerous books including The Adult Years, Revised Edition (Jossey-Bass, 1999).

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53 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life Launch ... A Guide to Authoring Your Own Life, June 2, 2000

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This review is from: Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (Paperback)

After integrating the inventions of man's several thousand years of creativity, life is now more complex and perhaps less satisfying rather than simpler and more fulfilling. Why? Because people now invest less time proactively authoring their lives and more time reactively accumulating "stuff." While "self-help" books with advice for "fixing ourselves" are abundant, there are few meaningful writings on how to author our own fulfilling life stories. "Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life" is one of these precious few.

"Life Launch" is a powerful, well organized set of tools for helping us author our own purposeful lives. Dr. Hudson's ingenious use of conceptual "maps" breaks even the most complex phenomena, like life transitions, into comprehensible visual models. These maps powerfully facilitate: (a) characterizing the experiences we endure as we traverse the cycle of life transitions, (b) increasing our awareness of our individual resources and opportunities, (c) defining and clarifying our values and life purpose, (d) acknowledging our numerous life roles, and (e) authoring our own lives-lives that more completely and fulfillingly engage us.

Dr. Hudson's "Cycle of Renewal" is particularly powerful as we enter the 21st century where people are striving for more connection with themselves as well as with others. Like the Yin and Yang, Dr. Hudson characterizes life as a balance of "being" and "doing." Similarly, while most of us have heard of "midlife crises", few of understand the dynamics of natural life transitions. Building on the concepts of seminal researchers in Adult Development, Dr. Hudson translates psycho-babble into understandable layman's language and presents them as "The Grand Adventure: from 20 to 90."

"Life Launch" is a valuable read for every person striving to author the life they've previously only dreamed of. "If one's destiny is shaped from within, then one has to act more freely as the creator. One has to be at once the subject, author, and creator." Life Launch is this person's toolkit. A definite five star read!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff!...among my very first few books on life design for the second half of my life!, March 5, 2006

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Lee Say Keng "KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURER/TECHNOLOGY... (Ho Chi Minh City/Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (Paperback)

Way back in the late 80's when I started to make a grand plan for leaving the corporate world at the age of around early 40's (that was my mid-life transition), I stumbled on to this wonderful book (together with several Richard Leider's books e.g. The Power of Purpose, Inventurers, etc.). Since then, this book has always been my inspiration to do what I love and love what I do. The most profound learning from this book came from my understanding - and eventual application - of the Cycle of Renewal, which the author has very artfully crafted in the form of visual concept models, systematically organised into five transitional steps.

I own and have also read the author's other book, The Adult Years, which also contains some great stuff.

I strongly recommend both books to anyone who is going through a mid-life transition.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The fieldbook for choosing and creating your preferred future!, August 27, 2006

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Kathleen Cabot-Smith "CEO LeadersCore, a Cabo... (New York * Miami * Kansas City * Dallas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (Paperback)

This is truly the guide book to help you apply the masterful groundwork explained in Hudson's The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal. Having experienced it's impact firsthand, I have used it in my work with countless leaders and coaching clients in my consulting practice with brilliant results for years.

It is amazing to see the lights go on when clients see the life maps in the Adult Years and the 'fire return to the belly' when they work through LifeLaunch. Make the most of the next chapter of your life and read these books! Hudson has served as a master guide and inspiration to the who's who of the world.