Self-Paced Workbook
A recent workbook participant said:
This workbook presents a process, as set of activities, for participants to follow in discovering
and realizing their new path in retireent. These activities provide a creative and imaginative way
to discover one's true orientation and how to achieve it.
Version 4.0 of the Crafting Your Life After 55 workbook is now complete and is full of stories about retirees living happy, meaningful lives. It is 8 1/2 x 10 inches, spiral bound, and contains 20 full color images and 10 illustrations illuminating the teachings and exercises. It sells for $19.95 plus tax and shipping. A budget unbound 8 1/2 x 11 version is available for $8.95 plus tax and shipping.
This workbook is for retiring and retired teachers, artists, nurses, engineers, and inquisitive people from all walks of life who would like to bring joy and aliveness into their retirement lives.
With this workbook, you will:
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Explore creative ways to recognize and align with your life purpose after retirement
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Let your imagination guide you through nine excursions to rediscover your dreams,
gifts & talents, and natural temperament -
Discover the top ten endeavors happy retirees pursue (like learning, health & fitness, volunteering)
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With your findings, start to create a diversified life that expresses who you are now
rather than who you were -
Start cultivating your ideal weekly schedule full of flow activities (where you lose track of time)
You will return to your life with a fuller understanding of the gifts and challenges of this stage of life and with the tools you need to continue moving forward.
Some other recent participants said:
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One of the best things I've done for myself since retiring. So valuable.
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The turning point for me was the empowerment I suddenly felt when I did the "Exploring Your Inner Geography" excursion
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Thank you for sharing all these tools and resources
Ordering Your Workbook
To order your Crafting Your Life After 55 workbook, do these three steps:
1. Determine your total price. The spiral bound version of the workbook is now available for $19.95 plus tax and shipping. The unbound budget version is available for $8.95 plus tax and shipping.
Binding Price. 9% Tax Shipping Total
Bound 19.95 1.79 5.95 27.69
or
Unbound 8.95 .80 5.95 15.70
2. Please include your shipping address.
3. Send a check to:
Robin Everest
1555 Merrill Street, #72
Santa Cruz 95062
or use PayPal to pay for your purchase
(On PayPal, send payment to reverestassociates@gmail.com.)
Version 4.0 Table of Contents
Introduction
The Conscious Aging Movement
About the Course
About Your Pacing
About Your Culture's Messages about Retirement
Chapter 1: Introducing Crafting Your Life After 55
What Do We Mean by Crafting Your Life After 55?
If I had to Sum It All Up
Map of the Terrain You Traverse
About Retirement Phases
Behind the Scenes
A Few Parting Remarks
What Did You Glean?
Chapter 2: Discussing the 3 Stages of Your Vocational Life's Journey
Stage 1: Living an Outer-Directed Life
Stage 2: Living a More Inner-Focused Life
Developing Self-Awareness Practices
Stage 3: Committing Fully to an Inner-Directed Life
Your Experience
Shifting Toward Sustainability
What Have You Gained?
Chapter 3: Clearing and Strengthening Your Creative Pathways
What is Creativity?
Did Your Former Workplace Encourage Your Creativity?
Two Daily Practices to Strengthen Your Creativity
Helpful Preparations Before Accessing Your Dreams
Meeting Your Chorus
Knowing You are not Alone
Dare to Dream
What Did You Discover?
Chapter 4: Exploring Your Dreams and Heart's Desires
Excursion 1: Big Bucks
Excursion 2: Five Lifetimes
Working with Excursion 1 and Excursion 2
Excursion 3: Remembering Your Favorite Subjects and Vocabularies
Excursion 4: Exploring the Top Ten Endeavors Happy Retirees Pursue
Excursion 5: Walking Down Memory Lane
Excursion 6: Finding Your Vocational Tribe
Working with Excursion 6
Excursion 7: Wishing and Hoping
Excursion 8: Unfinished Business
Excursion 9: What Do You Miss about Work?
Homework for Chapter 4
How Did Your Homework Assignment Go?
Your Three Favorite Ideas or Projects
Chapter 5: Working with Your Discoveries
About Your Discoveries
How to Work with Your Dreams and Visions
Rome Was Not Built in a Day
Chapter 6: Shaping Your Retirement Life to Fit Your Needs
Working With and Balancing Your Free Time
Creating Your Life Pie
Exploring Your Inner Geography
Envisioning and Cultivating Your Ideal Weekly Schedule
Creating a Diversified Life
Restoring Your Natural Ecosystem
Pulling It All Together
Balancing Your Levels of Work and Play
Empowering Yourself through Healthy Risk Taking
The Role of Confidence
Building More Confidence
In Closing
Our Unfolding Mystery
Index
About the Author
Retirement is a wonderful time to experience the joy of a balanced life, of giving back from all that we have learned, and of renewing our long lost loves (especially forgotten gifts and talents) that have waited for us all these years.
Robin Everest, author of the self-guided workbook called Crafting Your Life After 55