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Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose

Author: Richard J. Leider

Brand: Brand: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Edition: First Edition

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• ISBN13: 9781576752975
• Condition: New
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Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 150

Release Date: 12-09-2004

Details: Product Description To claim one’s place at the fire means to live ones life on purpose. When we claim our place at the fire, we enter into the circle of vital elders who have been the source of wisdom in society since time immemorial. We do this by courageously reexamining and rediscovering who we are, where we belong, what we care about, and what our life’s purpose is. —from the introduction If you’re in, or about to enter, “the second half of life, ” this practical guide will show you how to claim your rightful place among the “new elders”—men and women who “use the second half of life as an empty canvas, a blank page, a hunk of clay to be crafted on purpose.” Through inspiring stories and thought-provoking exercises, you’ll learn to ask, and answer, four key questions: Who am I? How do I stoke the wisdom gained in the first half of my life to burn more brightly in the second half? Where do I belong? What makes a place the right place for me in the second half? What do I care about? Where do I want to use my gifts and talents in the second half? What is my purpose? How do I leave a legacy that has real meaning for myself and my loved ones? This book provides a new model for vital aging. It shows you how to age successfully by living on purpose. From Publishers Weekly If you’ve just received your AARP membership card and wonder what comes next, you might find some help from Leider and Shapiro, co-authors of Repacking Your Bags. They put it a bit more lyrically, using their fire image: this book is for “people who are ready to stoke the wisdom gained in the first half of their lives to burn with a brighter sense of purpose in the second half.” Drawing on what Leider learned while sitting around the fire with tribal elders in Tanzania, he refers to his readers as “new elders,” meaning people “who never stop reinventing themselves.” This isn’t a self-help book, exactly: it doesn’t offer advice on activities for elders or where to retire. It is a guide to an internal, spiritual search for the purpose of one’s older years. Readers who don’t mind the New Age-y tone and the references to Ram Dass and dream interpretation as a source of wisdom may find inspiration here for answering the central questions that can guide them to a fulfilling elder life. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review “This is a book that will comfort anyone afraid of growing old. It sheds new light on vital aging.” —Walter F. Mondale, former Vice President, Senator and Ambassador “As a generation, baby boomers have long been called ‘the rat in the python.’ Claiming Your Place at the Fire challenges us to be the python, not the rat—and to start by shedding our generational skins. This book is thoughtful, warm, helpful, and above all else, wise.” —Alan M. Webber, Founding Editor, Fast Company About the Author Richard J. Leider is a founding partner of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting firm in Minneapolis. A National Certified Career Coach, he has been helping people to discover their life’s purpose for more than thirty years. David A. Shapiro is Education Director of the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children, a non¬profit organization that brings philosophy and philosophers into the lives of young people through literature, philosophical works, and group activities. Together Leider and Shapiro have coauthored the bestselling books Repacking Your Bags and Whistle While You Work. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction The Four Flames of Vital Aging Living on Purpose in the Second Half of Life In our earlier book, Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life, we developed a definition of the “good life” that included four components: place, people, work, and purpose. We defined the good life as “Living in the place you belong, with people you love, doing the right work, on purpose.” While this definition applied to people who were in t

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