Richard J Leider

Legendary personal coach Richard Leider, creator of the "purpose movement," teams up with David Shapiro to bring new stories, new lessons, and an all-new purpose manifesto to a new generation of readers. Purpose is an active expression of our values and our compassion for others--it makes us want to get up in the morning and add value to the world. The Power of Purpose details a graceful, practical, and ultimately spiritual process for making it central to your life. This revitalized guide will help you integrate it into everything you do. This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated. With a new co-author, new stories and examples and resources, it taps into the broader need for purpose in our post-pandemic world. With more than 40% new content, readers will discover new insights on purpose, a new chapter on Becoming a Purposeful Leader, and The Purpose Formula which includes mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose and to live a life of meaning and fulfillment.

Our later years need not be a time of loss. This book helps readers embrace the positive possibilities of aging and provides guidance on doing so purposefully, with courage, compassion, and curiosity. In their bestseller Repacking Your Bags, Richard Leider and David Shapiro defined the good life as living in the place you belong, with people you love, doing the right work, on purpose. This book argues that aging well can be similarly defined as aging in the place you belong, with people you love, doing the right 'work, ' on purpose. This book began as a conversation between two old friends during a rained-out baseball game, reflecting on the fact that, while society revers old friendships, they are dismissive of old people. How can we push back against the attitude that old age is nothing more than a gradual decline, and reframe it as a liberatory experience? What does old really mean? In what do we anchor our sense of identity as our life circumstances change? How do we deal with health challenges in an enlightened way? Aging is not a disease; it is a design problem. Redesigning our lives as we enter this new phase requires that we learn to grow whole, not old. And that means exploring the path of purposeful aging.

DISCOVER WHAT YOU'RE HERE TO DO. It's the end of work as we know it. Career paths look nothing like they did in the days before phones got smart. We work more hours at more jobs for more years than ever before. So it's vital that we know how to find work that allows us to remain true to who we are in the deepest sense, work that connects us to something larger than ourselves - in short, our ''calling.'' We all have one, and bestselling authors Richard Leider and David Shapiro can help you uncover yours. Through a unique Calling Card exercise that features a guided exploration of fifty - two ''natural preferences'' (such as Advancing Ideas, Doing the Numbers, Building Relationships, and Performing Events), Leider and Shapiro give us a new way to uncover our gifts, passions, and values and find work that expresses them. Along the way, they mix in dozens of inspiring true stories about people who have found, or are in the process of finding, their own callings. Uncovering your calling enables you to experience fulfillment in all aspects and phases of your life. And here's the even better news: you'll never have to work again. When you choose to do what you are called to do, you're always doing what you want to do. Work Reimagined offers an enlightening, effective, and entertaining approach to discovering what you were born to do, no matter your age or stage of life.

This third edition of legendary personal coach Richard Leider's bestselling classic on finding your purpose has been completely revised and updated throughout. In addition to new stories and examples it includes three new chapters. The Science of Purpose highlights what cutting-edge research has found are the positive benefits of having an increased sense of purpose; The Three Stages of Purpose looks at how our purpose can change throughout our lives; and A Guide to Writing Your Purpose Statement offers seven mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose (and there's a default purpose you can go to if you're struggling). Leider details a graceful, practical, and ultimately spiritual process for making your unique purpose central to your life. This revitalized guide will help you find your reason to get up in the morning and integrate it into everything you do. Purpose is fundamental to human life. It is what makes us human. Purpose gives us the will not just to live, but to live long and well. The good news is, purpose isn't a grand concept reserved for a gifted few but something each one of us already possesses, needing only to be uncovered.

Think of it as the most significant social story of our time: We are witnessing the arrival of a whole new stage of life. Today we're seeing people reach what used to be the "age of retirement" and convert it into the "age of possibilities." The authors call it "Life Reimagined." What those two words suggest is a new stage of life and-perhaps more importantly-a new way of thinking about life and living. At its core, Life Reimagined calls on each of us to engage life with a profound sense of what is possible, what is desirable, and what is personally meaningful.One of the profound truths that under lies Life Reimagined is the liberating notion that "each of us is an experiment of one": in other words, each of us is free to find our own way forward on this journey of discovery. But another truth is that there is a set of six practices-ways of engaging with Life Reimagined-that can help each of us find that way forward. The six practices are: ReflectConnectExploreChooseRepackActLife Reimagined offers the opportunity for each of us to grow-not just older, but grow more whole, more healthy, and more uniquely ourselves.

The first and second editions of Repacking Your Bags helped people develop their own unique vision of the good life and take practical steps at home and at work to make sense of their lives and live in an authentically meaningful way. Written as a travel guide it helped people to put together a "trip checklist" that provided the elements of the good life: work, love, place, and purpose. But Leider and Shapiro came to realize that repacking is not something we do once or twice in reaction to a sense of disillusionment or frustration in our lives. Developing one's own vision of the good life is a matter of constant and evolving choice, as the inevitable shifts and surprises life has to offer continually unfold before us. With each step along the way, it remains necessary to re-examine what has brought us here, to continue asking ourselves if the choices that have sustained us so far are continuing to do so - or if they're just weighing us down.This edition has been thoroughly revised to make it applicable for readers today. The changes include:Refocused message on the new life and work realities and the survival skills required to succeedMore practices and experiences for "lightening your load."Fresh new stories of "people just like me", the reader.A new "Repacking Journal" Addition of Leider's immensely popular Calling Cards exercise for discovering your gifts, passions and values, with access to a Calling Cards online profileNow Available The Repacking Journal App (available on the Apple App Store and iTunes for the iPad (optimized for larger tablet screen size) and on the iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices, and on Google Play for the Android smartphones) is a helpful and fun way to keep track of where you are on your life journey. It includes a 30-question Good Life Inventory with auto scoring and interpretation, covering themes such as work, people, place, and purpose. The app also includes thoughtful questions to help repack, a life travel check-list, and repacking resources. All answers are saved in the app and can be updated as often as you wish. The Repacking Journal App is a perfect way to keep on the Good Life track and to practice repacking your bags and on a regular basis.

Drawing on ancient and contemporary wisdom, as well as modern research, Richard Leider and David Shapiro provide insightful ways of thinking and being that help us find meaning and purpose in the second half of life. This deeply reflective book uses a safari, (referencing a trip the authors took to Africa in 2006) as a metaphor to show how the second half of life can be a journey of discovery. In what may be their most personal book to date, Leider and Shapiro share dozens of moving stories, from both their own experiences and those of their safari companions, that offer sometimes surprising examples of lives well-lived, lives that exemplify the qualities of authenticity and wholeheartedness that they believe are essential to finding meaning and purpose in the second half of life. There are many pathways to putting our whole selves into life, especially during the second half, and in Something to Live For," Leider and Shapiro explore many routes to vital aging.