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Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life

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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!

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.

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.

I read this book for one of my MBA classes, thinking this would just be another book full of hosh-posh ideas and theories. However, once I picked up the book, I could not put it down. EVERYONE OUGHT TO READ THIS BOOK! It is both powerful and life-changing. Enjoy!

This was a required text for my Psychology course. I ended up actually enjoying the book and learning about life mapping, which I will continue to use and hope to introduce my child to when she is older.

If you feel like you are going in circles in your life, or if you want to avoid going in circles, do yourself a favor and get this book. It really does teach you how to take control and make the most out of your adult life.

This book is inspiring, well written, and easy to read.

This small and reader friendly book is a masterpiece for me. Of all the books that I have read this is one of a handful that has been life changing. The simple cycle it describes is basic but understanding it in the context of my own life history made it interesting. Learning the skills to navigate through the ongoing cycle of life and its multiple dimensions has been profound. Reading LifeLaunch will be interesting but following the exercises with sincere commitment can be transformative.

A good friend had taken this course and recommended the book as I have been considering re-launching my life. The book and all of the exercises really pushed me to realistically think things through and gave me a framework for thinking about things. The result- clarity and setting a direction. Time well spent in learning more about myself and where I want to go with my life.

This book is fantastic. So much wisdom captured in the pages. Side quotes relevant to everyone's lives. A must have! Book arrived promptly, fee reasonable, condition exactly as described. Would buy from seller again. Thank you.

The book was purchased for a college course and after reading this book, it is a big help to my everyday life. It's an inspiration to read and I believe others should take the time to read it. It can help put your life into perspective.

I was well pleased with the time it took to process this book and have it at my doorstep!! Thanks again Mr. Mark Smith