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Title details for Repacking Your Bags by Richard J Leider - Available

Repacking Your Bags

Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life

by Richard J Leider
David A Shapiro
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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 iIt 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 listeners today. The changes include:
  • Refocused message on the new life and work realities and the survival skills required to succeed
  • More practices and experiences for "lightening your load."
  • Fresh new stories of "people just like me", the listener.
  • 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 profile

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    • Release date

      August 21, 2012

    • Formats

      • OverDrive Listen audiobook

        • ISBN: 9781469090108
        • File size: 170810 KB
        • Duration: 05:55:51

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • Publisher's Weekly

        November 28, 1994
        Career development counselor Leider (Life Skills) and freelance writer Shapiro here contend that many ``mid-life inventurers'' (those undergoing a mid-life crisis) lose their sense of what they want from their personal and professional lives. This simplistic guide is intended to help readers redefine their own version of the ``good life'' and offers a formula to achieve it. The authors advise readers to discard excess ``baggage'' such as possessions, responsibilities and relationships in order to reintegrate ``work, love, place, and purpose.'' Citing thinkers from Alfred Adler to Dante and Norman Cousins, they couch their suggestions in metaphorical, slogan-like terms and use sometimes arbitrary-sounding ``Postcard exercises'' to be exchanged with a ``Dialogue Partner.'' Having ``fully unpacked your relationship bags'' and chosen only things ``you can't live without,'' you are presumably ready to select a new purpose, way of life and environment. 30,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; author tour.

      • AudioFile Magazine
        Go back, pare down, come forward again. This is the predominant message in Leider and Shapiro's self-improvement audiobook. For those who are bogged down by responsibilities, beliefs, "things" they no longer need (or never did), the advice involves a lot of "re"-doing. "Refind your smile." "Rekindle your love." In short, "repack" your metaphorical bags. Like the simplifying formula it espouses, the tape's production is spare. By no means does this detract from its success. With the support of Michael Toms's upbeat and melodic voice, these positive pointers for a fulfilling life offer listeners a new path to follow. R.A.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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