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

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Most of us have bookshelves weighed down with all kinds of personal development and self help books-I do!
Most of the ones for midlife tend to be around health and wealth issues....will we have enough of both? Often the answers are scarcity driven, not giving us much hope for a positive aging experience.
This is the very best one I've read that gives us the GPS or road map to midlife and beyond. What a great job Richard and David have done to provide the readers with practical principles AND lots of inspiring stories of others who are living the good life in their second half of life. Millions of us are embarking on this journey -much of it unknown territory. Until now.
Richard and David show us the way to find and use our unique gifts and talents so this second half of life becomes a rich and satisfying time of our lives.
Imagine living this time of your life, savoring and saving the world: living an authentic life of purpose and meaning, while creating a life of vitality and joy! If you are interested in creating this vision for yourself in the second half of your life then you must read this book. I have NEVER underlined and marked a book up this much before. I found that much wisdom woven through each page. Let's start the conversation of redefining "positive aging" in the second half of our lives.
Elizabeth Harrington, [...]

If you buy this book thinking it will be full of practical ideas for finding a purpose for the "second half" of you life, you may be somewhat disappointed. There are interesting explorations of the authors' personal discoveries about life's meaning, but after you get past the stories about their "in-venture" trip to talk with African Elders, there isn't much meat left on the bone. Their advice can be simply summed up with one word: volunteer. Don't get me wrong, this is great advice, but it takes them a long time to get to that point.

Perhaps this volume should have better been classified under sociology rather than "Personal Growth" or self help.

It is also very male oriented, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, men are often overlooked in personal growth books except in a business context. But the lack of a feminine perspective (only 16 of the 83 or so people listed in the index are women) means that many of the aging problems specifically faced by women are not dealt with. Interestingly, the African trip was a "men's group" trip and the African elder council was all male as well. Even the animal analogies involve bull elephants <G>

Richard and David have created their most thought-provoking and encouraging work to date. If you are searching for HOW you want to live for the next 30-50 productive, fun, and/or fulfilling years of your life, you should definitively pick up this book!!! This book is an easy read with great stories with which any of us can identify. It truly gives unique perspectives which are very helpful to help each of us explore our own vocation and purpose for each of our unique lives.

I am over Leider. He doesn't say anything women don't already know. And he repeats himself. Disappointing. I was hoping for more.