Reclaiming and Renewing Your Life After 50

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Resources

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Because we are healthier, we are living decades after age 50 -- longer than any previous generation. That gives us the opportunity for a second adulthood. How will you live the second half of your life?

Suggested Reading

There are some really useful, fascinating and inspiring books available to help guide you into the next stage of life.

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Midlife/Second Adulthood

1. •The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life, Gene D. Cohen, MD
   

•The Power Years: A User’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life, Ken Dychtwald

•Listening to Midlife: Turning Your Crisis into a Quest,  Mark Gerzon

•Secrets of Becoming a Late Bloomer,                          Connie Goldman & Richard Mahler

•Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life,                James Hollis, Ph.D.

1. •Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life,       Gregg Levoy
   

•Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life,                                       Frederic M. Hudson & Pamela D. McLean

•Changing Course: Navigating Life After 50,                    William Sadler and James Krefft

•The Third Age: Six Principles of Growth and Renewal After 40, William Sadler

1. •New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time, Gail Sheehy
   

2. •Too Young to Retire: 101 Ways to Start the Rest of Your Life, Marika and Howard Stone
   

Women in the Second Half of Life

•  Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women,  Bernice Brattner and Helen Dennis

•  Inventing the Rest of our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood, Suzanne Braun Levin

1. • Smart Women Don’t Retire, They Break Free: From Working Full- Time to Living Full-Time,                                         The Transition Network and Gail Rentsch
   

•  My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After 50, Abigail Trafford

Retirement

1. •What Color is Your Parachute For Retirement?,           Richard N. Bolles and John E. Nelson
   

•Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America, Marc Freedman

•Looking Forward: An Optimist’s Guide to Retirement,  Ellen Freudenheim

•The Healing Journey Through Retirement: Your Journal of Transition and Transformation,                                    Phil Rich, Dorothy Sampson, Dale Fetherling

•Retire Smart, Retire Happy:  Finding Your True Path in Life, Nancy K. Schlossberg, Ph.D.

•How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom that you Won’t Get From Your Financial Advisor,       Ernie J. Zelinski

Career Change/Work

•How to Find the Work You Love, Laurence G Boldt

•Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion after 50, David Corbett

1. •Rewired, Rehired, or Retired?  A Global Guide for the Experienced Worker, Robert K. Critchley
   

•Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life, Marc Freedman

•Don’t Retire, Rewire: 5 Steps to Fulfilling Work that Fuels Your Passion, Suits Your Personality, and Fills Your Pockets , Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners

Couples/Relationships

•Couples: Exploring and Understanding the Cycles of Intimate Relationships,   Barry Dym and Michael Glenn

•Getting the Love You Want, Harville Hendrix

•If the Buddha Dated, Charlotte Kasl

•Retirement for Two: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive Together As Long As You Both Shall Live, Maryanne Vandervelde, Ph.D

•Divorce Busting, Michelle Weiner-Davis

•For Better for Worse, but Not For Lunch: Making Marriage Work in Retirement, Sara Yogev, Ph.D

Change and Transition

1. •Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes,                William Bridges
   

2. •Seasons of Change: Using Nature’s Wisdom to Grow Through Life’s Inevitable Ups and Downs,                Carol L. McClelland
   

Simple Living

•The Simple Living Guide:A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living, Janet Luhrs

•The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life,       Cecile Andrews

Myers-Briggs Type Inventory

•Reinventing Yourself: Life Planning After 50 using the Strong and the MBTI,  Sandra Davis and Bill Handschin

•I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You: The Real Meaning of the 16 Types,  Roger R. Pearman and Sarah C. Albritton

•Do What You Are: Discovering the Perfect Career through the Secret of Personality Type, Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger

Time Management/Organization

•First Things First, Stephen Covey

1. •Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Home, Your Office and Your Life, Julie Morgenstern
   

2. •It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys: The Seven Step Path to Becoming Truly Organized, Marilyn Paul
   

•Time Shifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life. Stephan Rechtschaffen

Spirituality

1. •Everyday Spiritual Practice: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your Life, Scott Alexander
   

•Spiritual Literacy. Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, and Thomas Moore

•Wherever You Go There You Are, John Kabat-Zinn

1. •Finding Your Religion: When the Faith Your Grew Up with Has Lost its Meaning, Scotty McLennan
   

2. •The Story of Your Life: Writing A Spiritual Autobiography, Dan Wakefield