Quality of Life Reading

Quality of Life Reading – Reading that looks at Retirement differently

Discover how to “Refire” vs. Retire and Live the Good Life On Purpose – Our “Bonus Years”

• What Color Is Your Parachute? For Retirement  –  Planning a  Prosperous, Healthy and Happy Future, John E. Nelson and Richard N. Bolles
• The Joy of Not Working – A book for the retired, unemployed, and overworked, Ernie J. Zelinski
• Don’t Retire, REWIRE! (Second Edition), Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners
• The Power of Purpose:  Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work (1997), Richard Leider
• Smart Women Don’t Retire – They Break Free, Transition Network and Gail Rentsch
• Super-Charged Retirement – Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love, Mary Lloyd
• Changing Course – Learn How to Create the Life YOU Want Navigating Life After 50, William A. Sadler, Ph.D., James H. HKrefft, Ph.D
• Something to Live For:  Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life. (2008), Richard Leider & David A. Shapiro
• Claiming Your Place At the Fire:  Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose (2004), Richard Leider & David A. Shapiro
• True Purpose:  12 Strategies for Discovering the Difference You Are Meant to Make, Tim Kelley
• Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
• Tuesdays With Morrie:  An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, Mitch Albom
• Audacious Aging:  Eldership As a Revolutionary Endeavor, Edited by Stephanie Marohn
• The New Retirementality – Planning Your Life and Living Your Dreams at Any Age You Want, Mitch Anthony
• Loving What Is:  Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie
• Blue Zone, The:  Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, Dan Buettner
• Conversations from The Neighborhood Ice Cream Shop:  8 Keys to Rediscovering Lost Dreams and Finding Your Life’s Calling, Denny Stockdale
• Late Life Love. Romance and New Relationships in Later Years, Connie Goldman
• Secrets of Becoming a Late Bloomer, Staying Creative, Aware, and Involved in Midlife and Beyond, Connie Goldman and Richard Mahler
• Five Stages of the Soul, The:  Charting the Spiritual Passages that Shape Our Lives, H. Moody  & D. Carroll
• Flow:  The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald S. Miller
• Oh, The Places You’ll Go, Dr. Suess
• Way of Transitions, The:  Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments, William Bridge
• Wherever You Go, There You Are:  Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Whole New Mind, A:  Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, Daniel Pink
• Women’s Lives, Women’s Legacies:  Passing Your Beliefs and Blessings to Future Generations, Rachael Freed
• Repacking Your Bags:  Lighten the Load For the Rest of Your Life (2002), Richard Leider

Living Life & Transition

• Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition by William Bridges
• The Way of Transition: Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments by William Bridges
• Three Deep Breaths:  Finding Power and Purpose in a Stressed-Out World, by Thomas Crum
• You Are What You Say, by Matthew Budd, M.D.
• Psycho-Cybernetics, by Dr. Maxwell Maltz
• Who Moved My Cheese, by Spencer Johnson
• The Alchemist, A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
• Where Do I Go from Here With My Life by John Crystal and Richard Bolles
• Choice-making by Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse
• The Fully Effective Executive by Dr. Gerald Kushel
• The Paradox of Success by John R. O’Neil
• How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein
• Finding Your Perfect Work – The New Career Guide to Making a Living, Creating a Life by Paul and Sarah Edwards (The Self Employment Experts)
• The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
• What Color is Your Parachute – A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career- Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
• Whistle While You Work:  Heeding Your Life’s Calling. (2001) by Richard Leider

Quality of Life/Quality Relationships

• The Positive Dog: A Fable About Changing Your Attitude to Be Your Best  by Jon Gordon
• The Five Love Languages – How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, Gary Chapman
• The Paradox of Success, by John R. O’Neil
• Working Ourselves to Death – The High Cost of Workaholism & the Rewards of Recovery, Diane Fassel, Ph.D.
• “Please Understand Me” Character & Temperament Types, David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates
• Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus, John Gray, Ph.D.
• You Just Don’t Understand, Deborah Tannen

Coaching

• The Anatomy of Change – A Way to Move Through Life’s Transitions by Richard Heckler, Ph. D.
• Holding The Center – Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion by Richard Heckler, Ph. D.
• The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss
• Coaching for Performance – Growing People, Performance and Purpose by John Whitmore
• Masterful Coaching – Extraordinary Results by Impacting People and the Way They Think and Work Together by Robert Hargrove
• Coaching –Evoking Excellence in Others by James Flaherty
• The Portable Coach – 28 Surefire Strategies for Business and Personal Success by Thomas J. Leonard
• Co-Active Coaching – New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life by Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, Phil Sandahl

Additional Reading

• The Tipping Point – How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcom Gladwall
• Blink – The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwall
• Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time – The Historical Jesus & Heart of Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• A Lifetime of Riches (The Biography of Napoleon Hill) by Michael J. Ritt, Jr. and Kirk Landers
• Reality Isn’t What it Used to Be by Walter Truett Anderson
• The Fifth Discipline – The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
• Sensible Self-Help – The First Road Map for the Healing Journey by David Grudermeyer, Ph.D., Rebecca Grudermeyer, Psy.D. and Lerissa Nancy Partrick

Meditation Books

• Believing in Myself by Ernie Larsen & Carol Hegarty
• Peace of Mind: Daily Meditations for Easing Stress by Amy E. Dean
• Forgiving & Moving On by Tian Dayton
• Gentle Reminders – Daily Affirmations by Mitzi Chandler
• A Time to be Free Daily Meditations for Enhancing Self-Esteem by the author of “A” Day at a Time and A New Day”
• Time for Joy Daily Affirmations by Ruth Fishel
• Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey