David C. Borchard, Patricia A. Donohoe

The Joy of Retirement

Finding Happiness, Freedom, and the Life You've Always Wanted

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Author David Borchard has been helping adults rejuvenate their careers and lives for 30 years. In The Joy of Retirement, he shows readers how to reinvent themselves and achieve the kind of fulfillment and meaning in their lives they have always dreamed of. Now, readers can start crafting their future and discovering their passions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AMACOM
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780814480564
• ISBN-10: 081448056X
• Artikelnr.: 23386927

Autorenporträt

David C. Borchard is a professional counselor with 30 years of experience in helping adults identify their passions and develop a vision for the next phase of their lives. He specializes in career management coaching and life/work transition counseling and has helped thousands of adults regenerate their careers.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1: Reinventing Your Life at Fifty-Plus 1
Chapter 2: Life Transitions: Endings and Beginnings 23
Chapter 3: Imagination and the Next Season of Your Life 47
Chapter 4: The Life Themes Profiler: Developing Themes for a New Life 63
Chapter 5: Self-Liberation: Transcending Old Roles 94
Chapter 6: Establishing Your Criteria for Fulfillment 115
Chapter 7: Connecting Your Talents to Interests 141
Chapter 8: Relating and Behaving Differently as a Senior 167
Chapter 9: Coming Home: Relocating to the Good Life 201
Chapter 10: Sustaining Vitality: Managing Your Changing Self in a Changing
World 222
Conclusion: Authoring Your Life 253
References 261
Index 265
About the Authors 271