The Spirit of Retirement: Creating a Life of Meaning and Personal Growth - Softcover

Autry, James A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573125091 ISBN 13: 9781573125093

Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated, 2012

Synopsis

Your retirement years should be the best of your life. Free from the burden of making a living, you have in front of you an opportunity for personal development and a time for spiritual growth. These are your years; it is up to you to embrace them and ensure that you enjoy an enriching journey. The Spirit of Retirement is your guiding light to creating and sustaining the post-work life you have always envisioned. Bestselling author and retired Fortune 500 executive James A. Autry illuminates a fulfilling path of meaningful endeavors, healthful reflections, and positive outlooks that will help make these years your most treasured. This engaging book highlights many important aspects of your new life, such as · preparing for the transition; · determining who you want to be for the rest of your life and how to get there; · reconnecting with those you love, appreciating your roots, and reinvigorating friendships; · allowing time to develop your inner self. Inside are moving anecdotes from people whose retirement years are filled with beauty, deep meaning, and purpose. Their stories illustrate the good life and special time that retirement should be and what it can be for you when you follow the guidance and apply the principles presented in this book.

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Praise for The Spirit of Retirement:
"Jim Autry gets to the heart of the matter with The Spirit of Retirement. Combining a poet's understanding with down-home common sense, he gives us more than a manual for the later years. He offers a rich, full life." — Roger Rosenblatt, essayist and frequent commentator on PBS
"Jim Autry's book is as much a guide to living well as retiring well. Reading his ideas and inspiring tales of others facing or experiencing retirement makes one feel less lonely." — Warren Bennis, distinguished professor of business at University of Southern California and coauthor of Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders
"Through Autry's great gift for making the stories of real people come alive, he has created a book that is inspiring and hopeful, yet immensely practical and helpful. We are bombarded daily with financial advice for planning our retirement, but we need Autry's wise voice for the far greater task of being our fullest and truest selves during our retirement years." — C. Michael Thompson, executive development consultant and author of The Congruent Life: Following the Inward Path to Fulfilling Work and Inspired Leadership
"The Spirit of Retirement is a powerful and persuasive book—an inspiring look at the changing attitudes toward retirement. James Autry charts new territory in this engaging look at the nature of spirit, creativity, and developing a purposeful life. You owe it to yourself to read this book." — Larry C. Spears, CEO, the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership and author of Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the 21st Century
"Don't wait until you're 50 to read this book. James Autry has packaged a gift for each of us—the gift of the rest of our lives. I read this book because I needed it and didn't know it. I had zero interest in retirement. I didn't want to think about it, read about it, or write about it. The Spirit of Retirement has changed all that for me." — John Mack Carter, former president, Hearst Magazine Enterprises

About the Author:

James A. Autry, the son and grandson of Mississippi Baptist ministers, is a former Fortune 500 executive, author, and poet whose work has had significant influence on leadership thinking. His book Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership won the prestigious Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award as the book that had the most impact on executive thinking in 1992. Autry lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with his wife, Sally Pederson, the just-retired lieutenant governor of Iowa, and their 22-year-old son. He is the author of Nights Under a Tin Roof, Confessions of an Accidental Businessman, and Looking Around for God (Smyth & Helwys).

About this edition

• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1573125091
• ISBN 13: 9781573125093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206