One of my favorite authors, Richard Leider, is coming out with a new book, Something to Live For:  Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life, and I wanted to give everyone a heads up.  As a coach, I've been influenced a lot by Richard's thinking on purposeful living, and his books are featured prominently in the "recommended reading" section of my blog, Project Creative Vision. Needless to say, I'm eagerly anticipating the new book as well.

At a recent conference call about the book launch, Richard talked about how this book is taking his ideas about life purpose to a whole new, more spiritual level.  »more»

Is it possible to look at someone in middle age and predict the quality of life they will have in older age? According to researchers at two Canadian universities you can and the process they use gives insight into what middle age adults should be doing today to maximize their future quality of life. »more»

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Your career choice impacts your quality of life, standard of living, personal identity, and much more. By the time you hit middle age, career changes are far from easy, but many people feel a mismatch with the career that they had selected earlier in life and want to at least explore the possibility of pursuing a new career. Are you one of these people? »more»

Simply Hired describes itself as a "vertical search engine". To people outside of Silicon Valley, this means they are a search engine (like Google) focused on a particular market, in this case jobs. They claim to be building the largest online database of jobs on the planet and they are backed by Fox Interactive, the same Murdoch company that now owns MySpace. »more»

Interesting post at AARP about midlife career changes. »more»

Stephanie Chen of the Wall Street Journal has an interesting take on a midlife career change which she discusses in her article "The Over-50 Crowd Takes to the Road In Paid Big-Rig Gigs" (may require fee) »more»

Have you been retired for at least a year and feeling a little disillusioned with retirement? Wondering 'Is this all there is?'

If so we know someone who wants to use you as a guinea pig. Contemporary Retirement is looking for volunteers to test The Retirement Detox Programme for no cost. It's a course that promises to help you revitalize your retirement. »more»

U.S. News has compiled a list of seven reasons why not to retire. They all make sense and are consistent with the trend of baby boomers who are increasingly opting to scale back working instead of full-scale retirement. »more»