Live Smart After 50!: The Experts' Guide to Life Planning for Uncertain Times - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988190702 ISBN 13: 9780988190702

Publisher: Life Planning Network, 2013

Synopsis

Live Smart After 50! is welcome and essential handbook for anyone at midlife and beyond. It provides lucid, motivating responses to the challenges of aging in the 21st century: the knowledge and tools to shift attitudes, update skills and shape a smart map for a future of security, wellbeing, meaning and new possibilities. In a unique collaboration, thirty-three of the nation's top experts in life planning and positive aging distill the most critical issues. From finding work, community, creativity, purpose and legacy to financing your dreams, making sure your voice is heard, anticipating the challenges of aging, and living with purpose and vitality, Live Smart After 50! offers friendly, focused, forward-thinking and action-oriented help. Rich in practical experience and wisdom, self-exploration exercises, and diverse resources, Live Smart After 50! is a companionable guide for planning and preparing for the second half of life. It will help readers get the big picture, identify and reduce risks, expand choices, and prepare to take advantage of - rather than fear - the future. Live Smart After 50! is jam-packed with tools that will enable readers to: * think about and strategically plan for the reality of a longer life * let go of old expectations in order to make room for new opportunities * create a life inventory as a way to more fully understand how to see and chart the future * think about how they want to live and who they want to be, in this second chapter of life

About this title

About the Author

Life Planning Network is a national community of professionals and organizations from diverse disciplines dedicated to helping people navigate the second half of life. The contributors who collaborated in writing Live Smart After 50! all LPN members include:

Barbara Abramowitz, Bradley T. Baumann, Bill Brisk, Elizabeth Craig, Helen Dennis, Doug Dickson, Kendall Dudley, Natalie Eldridge, Bruce Frankel, Judith-Kate Friedman, Andrea Gallagher, Sara Zeff Geber, Joanne Hadlock, Dick Haid, Kit Harrington Hayes, Jan Hively, Margaret "Peggy" Hothem, Elizabeth W. Jetton, Karma Kitaj, Donna Krone, Moira Lanier, Carleen MacKay, Fred Mandell, Dorian Mintzer, Meg Newhouse , Ron Pevny, Mary Radu, Renee Lee Rosenberg, Donna Schempp, Paula K. Solomon, Candy Spitz, Roberta K. Taylor, Chuck Yanikoski.

Review

Who do you want to become now and how will you make it happen? Read Live Smart After 50! You may discover your answers. --Jane Pauley, host of Your Life Calling on NBC's Today show

This guide from the Life Planning Network is an invaluable companion to figuring out what's next. From work to civic engagement, housing to health, this book will help you live your legacy, rather than just leave one. --Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Encore.org, author of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, and dubbed " the voice of aging baby boomers " by The New York Times

Muddling is out. Planning is in. Who do you want to be in this next stage of your life? This book offers spot-on advice and inspiration to help all of us plan, prepare, and smoothly navigate this new frontier. --Kerry Hannon, a nationally recognized authority on career transitions and author of AARP Great Jobs for Everyone 50+ and What Next?

Edition details

• Publisher: Life Planning Network
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0988190702
• ISBN 13: 9780988190702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Natalie Eldridge