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Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life
Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Frederic M. Hudson, Pamela D. Mclean, Hudson M. Frederic
Publisher: Hudson Pr
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised 2000
Pages: 166
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1884433847
EAN: 9781884433849
Publication Date: June 1, 2000
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A LifeLaunch is the beginning if a new chapter of your life. Each LifeLaunch requires a fresh new vision, new plans, and inner courage as you shift gears from yesterday's commitments to tomorrows possibilities. Each LifeLaunch is a graduation from one era of your life into the next. Society used to tailor our LifeLaunches for us, and guide us down established paths of adult life. No more. Today you must design your own path, and take charge of all your LifeLaunches no matter what your age or situation.
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Life Launch ... A Guide to Authoring Your Own Life June 2, 2000
44 out of 47 found this review helpful
After integrating the inventions of man's several thousand years of creativity, life is now more complex and perhaps less satisfying rather than simpler and more fulfilling. Why? Because people now invest less time proactively authoring their lives and more time reactively accumulating stuff. While self-help books with advice for fixing ourselves are abundant, there are few meaningful writings on how to author our own fulfilling life stories. Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life is one of these precious few. pLife Launch is a powerful, well organized set of tools for helping us author our own purposeful lives. Dr. Hudson's ingenious use of conceptual maps breaks even the most complex phenomena, like life transitions, into comprehensible visual models. These maps powerfully facilitate: (a) characterizing the experiences we endure as we traverse the cycle of life transitions, (b) increasing our awareness of our individual resources and opportunities, (c) defining and clarifying our values and life purpose, (d) acknowledging our numerous life roles, and (e) authoring our own lives-lives that more completely and fulfillingly engage us. pDr. Hudson's Cycle of Renewal is particularly powerful as we enter the 21st century where people are striving for more connection with themselves as well as with others. Like the Yin and Yang, Dr. Hudson characterizes life as a balance of being and doing. Similarly, while most of us have heard of midlife crises, few of understand the dynamics of natural life transitions. Building on the concepts of seminal researchers in Adult Development, Dr. Hudson translates psycho-babble into understandable layman's language and presents them as The Grand Adventure: from 20 to 90. pLife Launch is a valuable read for every person striving to author the life they've previously only dreamed of. If one's destiny is shaped from within, then one has to act more freely as the creator. One has to be at once the subject, author, and creator. Life Launch is this person's toolkit. A definite five star read!
Great stuff!...among my very first few books on life design for the second half of my life! March 6, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Way back in the late 80's when I started to make a grand plan for leaving the corporate world at the age of around early 40's (that was my mid-life transition), I stumbled on to this wonderful book (together with several Richard Leider's books e.g. The Power of Purpose, Inventurers, etc.). Since then, this book has always been my inspiration to do what I love and love what I do. The most profound learning from this book came from my understanding - and eventual application - of the Cycle of Renewal, which the author has very artfully crafted in the form of visual concept models, systematically organised into five transitional steps. br /br /I own and have also read the author's other book, The Adult Years, which also contains some great stuff.br /br /I strongly recommend both books to anyone who is going through a mid-life transition.
The fieldbook for choosing and creating your preferred future! August 28, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is truly the guide book to help you apply the masterful groundwork explained in Hudson's The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal. Having experienced it's impact firsthand, I have used it in my work with countless leaders and coaching clients in my consulting practice with brilliant results for years.br /It is amazing to see the lights go on when clients see the life maps in the Adult Years and the 'fire return to the belly' when they work through LifeLaunch. Make the most of the next chapter of your life and read these books! Hudson has served as a master guide and inspiration to the who's who of the world.
Life Changing!! August 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book for one of my MBA classes, thinking this would just be another book full of hosh-posh ideas and theories. However, once I picked up the book, I could not put it down. EVERYONE OUGHT TO READ THIS BOOK! It is both powerful and life-changing. Enjoy!
Life Changing May 16, 2008
This small and reader friendly book is a masterpiece for me. Of all the books that I have read this is one of a handful that has been life changing. The simple cycle it describes is basic but understanding it in the context of my own life history made it interesting. Learning the skills to navigate through the ongoing cycle of life and its multiple dimensions has been profound. Reading LifeLaunch will be interesting but following the exercises with sincere commitment can be transformative.
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